Welcome to the OMS Korea blog where we will keep you updated with the latest happenings and needs of the field. Thanks for visiting!
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1. Pray for Seoul Theological University making decisions on hiring new professors, that those of God’s choice can come and teach the students with God’s heart.
2. Seoul Theological University will interview prospective students on January 5. Pray for God to guide this process and bring the students that He wants to come and learn at STU.
Pray for many non-Christians to hear the gospel through Christmas events put on by Korean churches.
Pray for students at Seoul Theological University, beginning their two-month winter vacation. Many will be ministering in their local churches or on foreign missions trips. Pray especially for those graduating as they move on to the next stage of their lives under God’s guidance.
Pray for churches preparing special Christmas events to reach out into the community with the love of Christ.
Click here to see an article about Adventures in English published in Action magazine: http://menformissions.org/action/action-2008-3.pdf
(It’s on the last page.) Thanks, Melissa!
Pray for students at Seoul Theological University, finishing their final exams from December 8-12 and beginning their long winter vacation. Many will minister in their local churches and/or on foreign mission trips. Pray especially for those graduating as they move on to the next stage of their lives under God’s guidance.
Christmas 2008
Merry Christmas! When you receive this letter, I will already be in the United States for a short homeland assignment, November 11 to January 15. This is a time to visit the OMS headquarters in Greenwood, Indiana, meet supporters, and prepare for my next term of ministry. I hope to see as many of you as possible and share with you what God has been doing in Korea and visions for the future. Please contact me to arrange for us to get together.
This semester I have been on sabbatical from teaching at Seoul Theological University, focusing on research on the need for Korean missionaries to be trained in English. However, I have kept busy taking care of OMS administration, making plans for the future, and working in partnership with Korean church leaders to expand God’s Kingdom here and around the world.
In August we finished the “Adventures in English” (AIE) program, and the 9 short-term missionaries began to head for home. A few stayed on to help in another English camp at a local church, and returned home later in August. Pray for God to continue showing them how He wants to use them for world missions. I would love to have many of you join us for AIE 2009, which is being planned for July 12 – August 3, 2009.
At the end of September, we began to have many visitors coming to cooperate with OMS ministries in Korea. Bill Oden, the OMS Asia-Pacific regional director, came with his grandson September 24-28, and we met with leaders from the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church (KEHC) and Seoul Theological University (STU). We also participated in the closing worship service for the Missionary Training Center, as 15 Korean missionary candidates completed their seven months of training. Pray for them as they prepare to minister in Taiwan, the Philippines, Cambodia, Egypt, Thailand, Japan, Kenya, and Mexico.
Dean Davis, Folmer Strunk, and Dave Graffenberger came from the end of September to the beginning of October to give seminars on church multiplication and to meet with church leaders about working together in church multiplication ministries in Korea. In the picture below, you can see us on the closing day of a seminar for those ministering to foreign workers in Korea.
Professor Ken Collins from Asbury Seminary came October 4-11 to give the annual Cowman Lectures at Seoul Theological University. His lectures on holy love and real Christianity were a blessing and challenge to all who heard them. I was also privileged to participate in a World Missions Conference October 14-16 where church leaders from Korea, Taiwan, and Japan discussed how they could help each other to be more effective in their overseas missionary work.
Thank you again for your prayers and support that keep me here working for God’s Kingdom in Korea and around the world. Merry Christmas!
In Christ,
Susan
Pray for faculty and students at Seoul Theological University, preparing for final exams that take place from December 8-12.
Pray for God to speak through John Stackhouse as he speaks in the English chapel at Seoul Theological University on November 28.
Pray for faculty and students at Seoul Theological University preparing for final exams December 8-12.
The Korea Evangelical Holiness Church (KEHC) will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its overseas missions committee on December 7. Pray for God to be glorified in the celebration and for the mission work of the KEHC to continue to grow and become more effective in spreading God’s kingdom around the world.
