South Korea
Prayer
Dam Cheong—Kwangju
Seongsoo Cheong—Suison
Young In Yang—Daegu
12 countries.
Population:
» 411 missionaries in 46 agencies from
» The looming crisis of possible economic and political disaster in North
48,422,644
Korea will have an enormous impact on
No affiliaton:
46%
the South.
Christian:
26%
» The less-evangelized sections of the
Buddhist:
26%
population which need special ap-
Confucianist:
1%
proaches in ministry (Shamanism,
Other:
1%
Buddhists, Korean Muslims, Chinese,
250,000+ illegal migrants).
Dam
Cheong
Seongsoo
Cheong
Young In
Yang
Lessons from Camp Tejas
By: Dam Cheong
T
hrough the girls’ discipleship, I felt
God’s breath in my life, and many
things changed in me. I thought that
my suffering was harder than other
people’s, but I was wrong. They have
suffered as much or more than I have. I
never shared my testimony with others
in Korea like I did here. I didn’t know
that some still have kept their faith
strong even if they have suffered much
in their lives. My suffering was nothing
compared with theirs. Yes, Lord, may
our faith grow in our suffering so I can
rejoice in my suffering.
“Not only so, but we also rejoice in
our sufferings, because we know that
suffering produces perseverance;
perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out
His love into our hearts by the Holy
Spirit, whom He has given us” (Romans 5:3-5).
Through this camp I’ve learned
what it truly means to serve God.
Our leaders always tried to help other
groups or crews even when they were
tired or taking a break. Of course, they
are leaders so we might think that it’s
quite natural for them to help others;
but they are the same as the rest of
us. When we felt tired, they felt tired
too; when we wanted to rest, they also
wanted to rest; but the leaders knew
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that their crews were tired, so they
worked harder than us and helped other people, serving out of their love for
God.
“Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you
must be your servant, and whoever
wants to be ?rst must be slave of all.
For even the Son of Man did not come
to be served, but to serve, and to give
His life as a ransom for many” (Mark
10:43-45).
I couldn’t separate myself from the
world. I had become accustomed to it.
God existed to me when I went to church
or read the Bible. One of my feet was in
God’s Word, but my other foot was in
the world. My sinful nature whispered to
me, “Compromise with the world you’ll
be ok, God will understand;” but the
Holy Spirit tells me, “God doesn’t compromise with evil.” Through the discipleship program, I realized that I can’t hold
both the world’s love and God’s love, and
I felt that I couldn’t come close to God
with a sinful mind.
During the Old Testament study, I
looked back upon my Christian life: I
had to take my foot out of the world.
Through Camp Tejas’s discipleship
program, I learned how I should live
in this world according to God’s will.
I’m thankful to God for sending me to
Camp Tejas.
Hungary
Prayer
Eszter Kovacs—Miskolc
Population:
Christian:
Unspecified or other:
None:
10,006,835
74.4%
11.1%
14.5%
» 489 missionaries in 67 agencies from
18 countries.
» Hungarians are groping for life solutions amidst uncertainty and rapid
changes in society. There has been an
increase in stress and many fall prey to
alcoholism, suicide, burgeoning cults
and the occult.
» Suspicion, mistrust and division, legacies of Marxism, still affect the Church.
Eszter
Kovacs