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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Pray for everything to be prepared well for the “Adventures in English” program this month. Several interns will arrive around July 12 for a week of orientation before the English camp, which takes place from July 20-August 1. Pray for God to be glorified.
Pray for God to provide all the helpers needed for the “Adventures in English” program that takes place from July 13-August 3.
Pray for Tom Sparrow, teaching the members of the Filipino worship community at Friends of All Nations, a ministry for foreign workers, this weekend. Pray for him as he leaves Korea on June 30.
Pray for Hannah Emenaker, arriving in Korea on June 28 for a six-week internship. She will spend the next two weeks at an orphanage called “Green Pastures.”
Uplift Susan Truitt, traveling back to Korea on June 29-30 after the Missions in the Midwest Retreat.
Pray for Susan Truitt, traveling to Greenwood on June 18 for
missionary council meetings and Missions in the Midwest.
Pray for preparations for the “Adventures in English” program in July.
They are taking applications from teens and adults who want to participate.
Seoul Theological University (STU) is having 40 days of relay prayer and
fasting for Korea and for STU, from June 6-July 15. Join them in prayer
for: forgiveness for the idolatry in North and South Korea, for God to
guide the leaders of North and South Korea, for a spirit of repentance to
be poured out on the Korean church to bring a restoration of holiness and
for STU to be restored in holiness and become a missional community as
they prepare for the centennial in 2011.
Pray for Tom Sparrow serving in the KEHC Missionary Training Center, as he lectures on inductive Bible study and helps with English training. Pray also for the missionary candidates as they prepare to leave around June 17 for a month of practical training in the countries where they will serve.
Pray for students at Seoul Theological University finishing their final exams on June 12 and beginning various ministries during the summer vacation.
Pray for preparations for the “Adventures in English” program in July. We are now taking applications from teens and adults who want to participate.
Pray for Tom Sparrow, serving in the KEHC Missionary Training Center during June, lecturing on inductive Bible study and helping with English training.
Pray for Seoul Theological University students, taking final exams June 8-12 and preparing for summer ministries.
Applications are being accepted for the “Adventures in English” program this July. Pray for God to guide those He wants to participate and for all the preparations to go well.
The KEHC domestic missionaries, who are ministering cross-culturally to foreign migrants in Korea, have their monthly meeting on June 4, and Susan Truitt will join the meeting. Pray for this time to be an encouragement to each of these five missionaries.
1. May 27-29, Dr. Mary Conklin from Point Loma Nazarene University is giving her annual lectures on cross-cultural adjustment at the Missionary Training Center. She arrived later than expected, so instead of starting on the 25th, she started on the 27th. Pray for these lectures to be helpful for the missionary candidates as they prepare to serve in other cultures.
2. Pray for Mick and Nora Suman as they finish up their two months of ministry in the Missionary Training Center, and prepare to return to the United States on May 29. Pray also for Tom Sparrow who arrives in Korea on May 27 and is serving in the Missionary Training Center for the coming month.
3. The Korea Evangelical Holiness Church (KEHC) general conference is being held May 26-28. Pray for God’s direction as leaders of the denomination are elected and important decisions are made about the future of the KEHC.
4. Pray for the evening students in the Mission English department leading an English chapel Wednesday evening, May 27.
5. South Korea is in a lot of turmoil after the shocking suicide of former president Roh Moo-hyun on May 23 and the North Korean nuclear test and missile launch on May 25. Pray for God to have His way in this land.
On May 25-29, Dr. Mary Conklin from Point Loma Nazarene University will be giving her annual lectures on cross-cultural adjustment at the Missionary Training Center. Pray for these lectures to be helpful for the missionary candidates as they prepare to serve in other cultures.
**UPDATE: Mary was delayed, and is planning to arrive in Korea the evening of May 26. Pray that her lectures, although cut in half, will be effective and helpful for the missionary candidates.
Pray for Mick and Nora Suman as they finish up their two months of ministry in the Missionary Training Center, and prepare to return to the United States on May 29. Pray also for Tom Sparrow who will arrive in Korea on May 27 and serve in the Missionary Training Center for the coming month.
The Korea Evangelical Holiness Church (KEHC) general conference will be held May 26-28. Pray for God’s direction as leaders of the denomination are elected and important decisions are made about the future of the KEHC.
All of South Korea is in shock from the suicide of former president Roh Moo-hyun on May 23. Pray that God will draw people to Himself through this, and heal this land.
1. Pray for the Korean missionary candidates at the Missionary Training Center attending a seminar on inner healing this week. Continue to pray for Mick and Nora Suman living with the missionary candidates, mentoring and teaching English, until May 29.
2. Continue to pray for God’s guidance as we prepare for the “Adventures in English” camp in July. Pray for God to lead volunteers to join us in teaching, and the students that He wants to attend.
Greetings from Seoul, Korea! I want to thank you for your prayers and support for my ministry here with OMS. Let me catch you up with some of what’s been going on since my last letter.
The spring semester at Seoul Theological University (STU) began with the spring revival meetings from February 25-27; praise the Lord for working in the lives of faculty, staff, and students during this time. Then classes began on March 2. I am teaching courses in the Mission English department, including English communication, English education theories, and English Sunday School teaching. I’m also the faculty advisor for the freshmen and senior Mission English students in the evening school.
I was glad to welcome Mick and Nora Suman to Korea on March 23. I first met the Sumans about 26 years ago when I went on a mission trip to Spain with OMS as a high school student, and they were missionaries there. They came to Korea this year to be missionaries in residence at the Missionary Training Center (MTC) for two months. Actually I couldn’t welcome them very well, because they arrived on a different flight than I was expecting, without a phone number, so we all experienced a few hours of concern until they called and said they had been guided by a policeman to a nearby hotel. We were able to meet them the next day and bring them to our OMS apartment.
This year, there are 32 adults and 23 children in the MTC, so things are crowded, but we praise the Lord that so many are being prepared to be sent out as missionaries. Three of them are my former students, graduates of the Mission English department at STU. Every Thursday afternoon, the Sumans and I lead a time of training in English for worship and ministry. It is exciting to get to know the missionary candidates before they leave for the mission fields where God is leading them. The last week of May, Dr. Mary Conklin, a sociology professor at Point Loma Nazarene University, will give her annual lectures on cross-cultural adjustment, and when the Sumans leave, Tom Sparrow will come to the MTC from the end of May to the end of June to mentor the candidates, help them with their English, and lead them in inductive Bible study.
Please pray for these 32 missionary candidates in training and their families to effectively represent the Lord Jesus Christ as they prepare to go to countries such as China, the Philippines, South Africa, Japan, and. India.
Again this year, we are preparing for our annual English training program for ministry and missions, “Adventures in English” (AIE), which will be held July 13 to August 3 (including orientation). We are still in need of volunteers like you to come to Korea at that time to teach English to Christian Korean students, pastors, and laypeople. It is a chance not only to have an influence on future Korean missionaries and Christian leaders, but also to get a new perspective on the world as you share your life with these precious brothers and sisters. Please contact me soon by e-mail if you are interested in helping with AIE this summer.
Thank you again for your prayers and support that keep me here in Korea teaching English for God’s Kingdom. I will be at OMS’ Missions in the Midwest in Indianapolis, June 26-28 (http://www.omsinternational.org/missionsinthemidwest2009), and hope to see some of you there. God bless you!
In Christ,
Susan Truitt
