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
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