Missions Minded

I've been praying recently about how God wishes me to live for his glory in the past several year. So many different avenues had appeared and I tried several of them. One of which was photography and media. In a short but fast three years I've been able to travel to several locales and document the goings on of the modern missionary world. The experience has become very uplifting and eye opening to say the least. Perhaps I'll attempt to post some videos up on here once I have the time to figure it all out while taking a break from my studies.

Jordan, being perhaps my favorite mission trip, was what really had my heart pumping and my soul pointing in the direction of the winds that God was carrying me. I was the only American born Korean on the team and the only one that could barely speak any of my blood native tongue. I managed somehow, by the grace of God and his spirit, to be allowed to capture some of my most treasured photographs. The stills really portray the emotions and times of the people that we encountered, Iraqi Refugees. Their stories are still resonating in my dreams and my heart and prayers are still going out to them. There story really needs to be heard as is the stories of so many hundreds of other innocents that have been tossed into the whirlwind of traumatic non-life of war.

I still keep in contact with one student who has been blessed with the chance to immigrate to the US. He tells me that some of his other family members are still in Jordan, unable to get their visas for one reason or another, but in time with the prayers of the faithful, his entire family will be united again. Yet, through all of it, he still has the ability to stand up on top and be proud to be alive, to be a Christian, and to live free.

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I'll be leaning a new skill soon, that I pray will become a part of me, so that I may be able to Glorify Him with whatever service that I can provide. The medicine, that I try so desperately to retain in my brain as well as my heart, is something that I will cherish and thankfully accept everyday. For those that know me from before attending FCIM, know that I was never a student nor a scholar by any means and I was never a fan of reading. Now I am living my life at the moment, reading and studying all that is in front of me so as to not squander the gifts that have been given to me. My heart for missions continues to grow everyday. The medicine I'm studying, slowly but surely, is becoming a part of me. I can only hope to make my Saviour proud and that my life could glorify God almighty, and that in the end, when the dust settles, that my name not be remembered, but that God's fingerprints be the only evidence left in the hearts of the people that I encounter every day.

-Peace