One Month

I have been here in SK for one month. Today is Fourth of July! So many things have been happening here. We are preparing for camp and I am teaching English everyday. I'm tutoring the teachers as well in English. I love the kids so much. I am sad even on the weekends when we leave them to go to Seoul. It is going by really fast. I haven't had time to catch my breath.

So last weekend there was a typhoon here. What that means is a lot of rain. I had to travel from Cheonan to Seoul and back to Cheonan while the rain was pounding, but luckily my umbrella nd rainjaket handled it pretty well. This past weekend the Seoul team came to visit Cheonan. It was an awesome experience for them to see how we live and what we have to travel every weekend. I'm so glad they came. The kids really enjoyed meeting them. They left yesterday and I remember thinking the last time they will see these kids we will be at ERC. Then I realized how close it actually was.

Yesterday I lost my umbrella. I will have to invest in a new one. It rains a lot here, but I love it. Today is nice, cool and sunny though. I have been to the Pinnacle Gardens, Independence Hall, the first Taco Bell in Korea and an ancient Confucianist village. There are many other places I want to go though. Especially the DMZ. It would mean so much becasue of the kids and know all of their stories. It's hard to even comprehend all they have gone through, yet they have so much joy. They teach me everyday what it truely means to have joy.

Though I came with the purpose of sharing the gospel and teaching them English, I feel like sometimes I am being taught more than I can ever teach them. God has been doing an amazing work on my life. I am finding out the true meaning of being called and having a heart for missions. I also am finding out what people in the past have done so that I can look forward.

We reached a point last week where we had to lay down everything and pray for what was happening. We pray everday, but the urgency and the spirit of our prayer was so intense. It amazes me how God works because that same night the spupervisor in Cheonan was separately praying for the same things. We all could see the change the next day. Please pray. Prayer is essential to our ministry. Please pray for my team not to get weary. Please pray for our discipleships that we have. Please pray for our teachers to be encouraged by us. And please pray for ERC camp. God is doing big things. I have come to the realization that I should not be discouraged if we see nothing friutful. It is not me who is going to do the work in them. It is God. He is the one they need. I have obeyed to His Spirit and He will use that to help these kids.

Love you and please be in prayer.

Jennifer