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due to ministry on the field and especially because of the poor living conditions of Cambodia . However I learned that even through those conditions , God was meeting
those MKs personally and He wanted to bless their futures . I thought of the MKs as mini-missionaries at LIS . Despite the fact that their grades were much higher than the local students due to their stronger study habits and better education opportunities they ’ ve already had , these MKs were willing to help the local students understand their lessons and became good role models not only in the classroom but for the whole school . I think it is because these MKs showered the local students with love as a Christian that when they were exposed to the Gospel , they were able to joyfully accept the Good News . After seeing this positive side , I was able to change my sorriness and bless these missionaries ’ ministries with a more joyful
heart and cheer them on .
I am so thankful for these good memories of seeing the many sides of mission work . Now , no matter what kind of missions God calls me to do , I am able to obey with an expectant heart and commit willingly . My heart fills with joy and my eyes fill with tear every time I think of Cambodia because this experience was so intimate and real . May God bless another year of missions in Cambodia .
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Daniel Kim

Hello . My name is Hyun-Joon Daniel Kim and I have come back after 11 months of living in the beautiful nation of Cambodia . Thank you so much for your

support and endless prayer . There were times went I felt lonely , tired , and dry , but I truly believe through your prayers and our obedience to God as a whole church really protected my team spiritually on the mission field . I was greatly moved by the friends who contacted me saying that they were thinking of me and praying for me . I witnessed God providing His blessings when we desperately needed encouragement and love . Thus , I am blessed to have been sent to Cambodia from this faithful and obedient church of God . Therefore , it gives me the ultimate joy to be able to share my testimony with you all today . As I was preparing for my testimony , I first looked at what I wrote in my testimony that I shared last year before we departed to Cambodia . My core message in that testimony was “ How I fell in love with Missions .” I went in depth by discussing how God revealed my brokenness and the need to break down our walls and allow God to ignite our souls and work in us . He lit my soul on fire with my first mission trip to Japan and continued to fire me up with the following mission trips to Mexico . Every time that I went on a mission trip I learned something about myself and about the state of my relationship with God . It felt so good to go on these mission trips because it was such a refreshing and restoring oasis that could quench the thirst I longed for . But I have noticed something pe-
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