The Spiritual Emphasis Week was great with three young men from Philadelphia leading the chapel.
Pray as I am the speaker on 5 Sept. My message will be Facing Your Giants - from the book by Max Lucado.
Pray for the ladies who start a Beth Moore Study: Daniel--Lives of Integrity;Words of Prophecy
Pray for Tammy as she prepares to take the Professional Engineer Test in October
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Prayer for ICS Uijongbu
Hi,
Pictured are my science classes. Please pray:
For the Spiritual Emphasis Week that will be the last week in August
That our seniors will be able to take the SAT without leaving the country
That the praise team will continue to sing joyfully after a great start
Pictured are my science classes. Please pray:
For the Spiritual Emphasis Week that will be the last week in August
That our seniors will be able to take the SAT without leaving the country
That the praise team will continue to sing joyfully after a great start
Saturday, July 28, 2007
July 2007 Post
Hi Friends
July brought a cacophony of thoughts. Yong Hui and finished the Pre-Field Orientation course in Southhaven, Mississippi. We visited our daughter Tammy in Suwanee, Georgia (recently rated as the tenth best city to live in). We saw Chaplain Sir Walter and his wife Sandra Scott and their daughter Gina. The Scotts lived next to us in Panama. We visited friends from Worth County High School and spent the night with Command Sergeant Major (Ret) Russell and Christine Beard. We gave a presentation at First Baptist Church, Sylvester and renewed our friendships with many friends. We traveled to Valdosta, Georgia to spend the night with Reverend Dexter and Jeanie Wilson, dear friends from Sylvester. I hiked up Pikes Peak with a fellow teacher Sophie Yu, we made the trip (13 miles in distance and 7000 feet change in elevation one way) in 11 hours 30 minutes. I received and graded tests from my AP Biology class. I began my AP Biology Seminar at Cherry Creek High School in Denver. I prayed with many other prayer warriors around the world for the 22 South Korean hostages taken by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
We leave for Korea on 5 August to begin our second year in Uijongbu.
My AP Biology Students have been working hard to complete the 11 chapters that they have to finish before school starts. The Advanced Placement Biology class offers the students the opportunity to receive a college credit if they score well enough on the end of course test in May. We have 50 chapters in the book and to finish them by April, the students have to do some preliminary work which includes taking an on-line pretest. One student is complete and two more can smell the barn. Try one of these tests at :
http://highered.mcgraw- hill.com/sites/0072919345/student_view0/index.html
There are several prayer requests and praises for us:
• Pray for traveling mercies as we return home to Korea
• Pray for me as I finish the Advanced Placement Biology course.
• Pray for a permanent job for Jason.
• Pray for wisdom for the decisions that Tammy has to make.
• Pray for my students in my physics classes, chemistry class, AP Biology class, and U.S. Military History Class
• Pray for the new Division Chaplain of the 2nd Infantry Division
• Pray for Pastor Richardson, Uijongbu Community Church and Pastors Vasel and Francis, Uijongbu Baptist Church
• Praise God for the blessings I have received at New Life Church, with the Gideons International, and with the International Christian School-Uijongbu
July brought a cacophony of thoughts. Yong Hui and finished the Pre-Field Orientation course in Southhaven, Mississippi. We visited our daughter Tammy in Suwanee, Georgia (recently rated as the tenth best city to live in). We saw Chaplain Sir Walter and his wife Sandra Scott and their daughter Gina. The Scotts lived next to us in Panama. We visited friends from Worth County High School and spent the night with Command Sergeant Major (Ret) Russell and Christine Beard. We gave a presentation at First Baptist Church, Sylvester and renewed our friendships with many friends. We traveled to Valdosta, Georgia to spend the night with Reverend Dexter and Jeanie Wilson, dear friends from Sylvester. I hiked up Pikes Peak with a fellow teacher Sophie Yu, we made the trip (13 miles in distance and 7000 feet change in elevation one way) in 11 hours 30 minutes. I received and graded tests from my AP Biology class. I began my AP Biology Seminar at Cherry Creek High School in Denver. I prayed with many other prayer warriors around the world for the 22 South Korean hostages taken by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
We leave for Korea on 5 August to begin our second year in Uijongbu.
My AP Biology Students have been working hard to complete the 11 chapters that they have to finish before school starts. The Advanced Placement Biology class offers the students the opportunity to receive a college credit if they score well enough on the end of course test in May. We have 50 chapters in the book and to finish them by April, the students have to do some preliminary work which includes taking an on-line pretest. One student is complete and two more can smell the barn. Try one of these tests at :
http://highered.mcgraw- hill.com/sites/0072919345/student_view0/index.html
There are several prayer requests and praises for us:
• Pray for traveling mercies as we return home to Korea
• Pray for me as I finish the Advanced Placement Biology course.
• Pray for a permanent job for Jason.
• Pray for wisdom for the decisions that Tammy has to make.
• Pray for my students in my physics classes, chemistry class, AP Biology class, and U.S. Military History Class
• Pray for the new Division Chaplain of the 2nd Infantry Division
• Pray for Pastor Richardson, Uijongbu Community Church and Pastors Vasel and Francis, Uijongbu Baptist Church
• Praise God for the blessings I have received at New Life Church, with the Gideons International, and with the International Christian School-Uijongbu
June 2007 Report
Hi Friends
June has come and gone. Hard to believe all that has happened in this short month. We finished school, came home for the summer, and then attended the Pre-Field Orientation course in Southhaven, Mississippi.
We still have some summer travel plans to do which will continue on 7 July when we go to Atlanta to visit Tammy and then we will continue on 11 July our friends in Sylvester, Georgia and in Valdosta, Georgia. We will return to Colorado and then the first week of August I have an AP Biology class to attend at Cherry Creek High School and then on 4 August we will return to Korea. Wow, it seems as if the next school year has already started.
Our school visited the Everland Theme Park on Memorial Day and we had a great day. Yong Hui really enjoyed the rose garden that boasted of over 10,000 roses. Pictured is one of the many presentations of the roses.
On 5 June I had a very interesting day as 10 of our students visited the project managed by my very first roommate at West Point. Jim Hickey and I were Beast Barracks roommates and he was hired by a company in Korea that is reclaiming thousands of acres of ocean land near Incheon, Korea. My students all enjoyed the visit. We have a picture of them at the construction site at the end of this letter.
We arrived in Colorado on 8 June and had a busy two weeks as I led one of the prayer segments for the Gideon International Day of Prayer on 9 June. We spent some time working on the yard and the house. We went to our nephew Shane’s wedding and somewhere in between we were able to play a round of putt putt golf and have fun with my brothers.
This PFO has been very valuable as nearly 150 teachers from 19 schools in 15 nations are in a suburb of Memphis to learn about all the things we need to know to teach in an international Christian school. It is funny that two of the speakers are from Colorado Springs. However, I think we needed to be here, not just talk with them in their offices at home.
There are several prayer requests and praises for us:
• Pray for traveling mercies as we go to South Georgia and then return home to Colorado
• Pray for me as I attend the Advanced Placement Biology course.
• Pray for a permanent job for Jason.
• Pray for wisdom for the decisions that Tammy has to make.
• Pray for us as we prepare for the next school year.
ICS-Uijongbu students at the new school site of the New Song Do City. These students range from 6th to 10th grade and will be available to visit the site in future years to watch the progress of the city.
June has come and gone. Hard to believe all that has happened in this short month. We finished school, came home for the summer, and then attended the Pre-Field Orientation course in Southhaven, Mississippi.
We still have some summer travel plans to do which will continue on 7 July when we go to Atlanta to visit Tammy and then we will continue on 11 July our friends in Sylvester, Georgia and in Valdosta, Georgia. We will return to Colorado and then the first week of August I have an AP Biology class to attend at Cherry Creek High School and then on 4 August we will return to Korea. Wow, it seems as if the next school year has already started.
Our school visited the Everland Theme Park on Memorial Day and we had a great day. Yong Hui really enjoyed the rose garden that boasted of over 10,000 roses. Pictured is one of the many presentations of the roses.
On 5 June I had a very interesting day as 10 of our students visited the project managed by my very first roommate at West Point. Jim Hickey and I were Beast Barracks roommates and he was hired by a company in Korea that is reclaiming thousands of acres of ocean land near Incheon, Korea. My students all enjoyed the visit. We have a picture of them at the construction site at the end of this letter.
We arrived in Colorado on 8 June and had a busy two weeks as I led one of the prayer segments for the Gideon International Day of Prayer on 9 June. We spent some time working on the yard and the house. We went to our nephew Shane’s wedding and somewhere in between we were able to play a round of putt putt golf and have fun with my brothers.
This PFO has been very valuable as nearly 150 teachers from 19 schools in 15 nations are in a suburb of Memphis to learn about all the things we need to know to teach in an international Christian school. It is funny that two of the speakers are from Colorado Springs. However, I think we needed to be here, not just talk with them in their offices at home.
There are several prayer requests and praises for us:
• Pray for traveling mercies as we go to South Georgia and then return home to Colorado
• Pray for me as I attend the Advanced Placement Biology course.
• Pray for a permanent job for Jason.
• Pray for wisdom for the decisions that Tammy has to make.
• Pray for us as we prepare for the next school year.
ICS-Uijongbu students at the new school site of the New Song Do City. These students range from 6th to 10th grade and will be available to visit the site in future years to watch the progress of the city.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
April 30 Report
Hi Friends
The month of April has flown by and it is hard to believe that only one more month remains for the seniors. For the last month, all we have to do is to be at the right place at the right time to be successful. This coming week we have the Elementary Musical and the Junior/Senior Banquet. Next week is the athletic banquet, and you can get the drift.
We are starting to finalize our summer travel which will begin on 8 June with a flight to Colorado which will be followed by a pre-field orientation class near Memphis the last week of June and the first week of July. We will then visit Tammy and our friends in Sylvester, Georgia. We will return to Colorado and then the first week of August I have an AP Biology class to attend at Cherry Creek High School and then on 4 August we will return to Korea. Wow, it seems as if the next school year has already started.
I am the coach of the swim team and our verse is II Timothy 4:7 as we endeavor to “Fight the good fight, finish the course, and keep the faith.” Above is the second freestyle relay as it was preparing to start. The guy in the black and green shorts is Monish from India and who was instrumental in starting the paper airplane club. The guy with his hands on his head was a week swimmer who just recently was able to swim 50 meters (it used to take him a week to do it). We finished with 116 points in the conference tournament, the most ever, and our swimmers were happy with their performance.
I have a weekly Bible study with Kimi and Rose. Kimi is one of the girls who could not swim when the season started and she finished 3 events on the championship. They are best friends and Kimi brought Rose to me because Rose thought she had a great sin that would keep her from being saved. We used the Roman Road to discuss the fact that we are all sinners and Rose came to know Jesus as her personal Savior. We meet as we disciple Rose.
Yong Hui continues to serve here in Uijongbu. She prays daily from 0500 to 0600 at the local Korean Church which is one block from our house. She has her Bible Study on Tuesday and helps clean the church on Thursdays. If that is not enough, she is preparing to be an acupuncturist by attending classes every Wednesday morning.
I led the lesson of the Facing Your Giants study on 14 April that focused on Raging Sauls and Desperate Days. We all have had harsh bosses in our lives and there was a lot of discussion on these important topics. That same day we hosted a swim meet and said good-by to Pastor Kelley who had been the pastor of the Uijongbu Baptist Church for 11 years. Talk about having to be at the right place at the right time.
There are several prayer requests and praises for us:
• Praise for the mission that Tammy went on to Slovakia from 8-14 April.
• Tim and Jason are in a Bible Study on the Driven By Eternity by John Bevere and need prayer as they sort through doctrine and what this book says. They are doing the study on Wednesdays at our house.
• Yong Hui needs wisdom as she continues her Bibles studies and volunteers in our church.
• Our school and church sent out one mission team and the Uijongbu Community Church sent out another mission team during Spring Break. Both went to the Philippines. Pray for protection and for success.
• Praise God that our swimming team finished strong as we had a good showing at our friendly meet on 14 April at home and at the KAIAC championship of 28 April.
• Our Uijongbu Baptist Church changed pastors this month. Pray for Pastor Kelley who returned to the United States after 12 years here and pray for Pastor Tom Vasel as he assumed the duties of the senior pastor.
The month of April has flown by and it is hard to believe that only one more month remains for the seniors. For the last month, all we have to do is to be at the right place at the right time to be successful. This coming week we have the Elementary Musical and the Junior/Senior Banquet. Next week is the athletic banquet, and you can get the drift.
We are starting to finalize our summer travel which will begin on 8 June with a flight to Colorado which will be followed by a pre-field orientation class near Memphis the last week of June and the first week of July. We will then visit Tammy and our friends in Sylvester, Georgia. We will return to Colorado and then the first week of August I have an AP Biology class to attend at Cherry Creek High School and then on 4 August we will return to Korea. Wow, it seems as if the next school year has already started.
I am the coach of the swim team and our verse is II Timothy 4:7 as we endeavor to “Fight the good fight, finish the course, and keep the faith.” Above is the second freestyle relay as it was preparing to start. The guy in the black and green shorts is Monish from India and who was instrumental in starting the paper airplane club. The guy with his hands on his head was a week swimmer who just recently was able to swim 50 meters (it used to take him a week to do it). We finished with 116 points in the conference tournament, the most ever, and our swimmers were happy with their performance.
I have a weekly Bible study with Kimi and Rose. Kimi is one of the girls who could not swim when the season started and she finished 3 events on the championship. They are best friends and Kimi brought Rose to me because Rose thought she had a great sin that would keep her from being saved. We used the Roman Road to discuss the fact that we are all sinners and Rose came to know Jesus as her personal Savior. We meet as we disciple Rose.
Yong Hui continues to serve here in Uijongbu. She prays daily from 0500 to 0600 at the local Korean Church which is one block from our house. She has her Bible Study on Tuesday and helps clean the church on Thursdays. If that is not enough, she is preparing to be an acupuncturist by attending classes every Wednesday morning.
I led the lesson of the Facing Your Giants study on 14 April that focused on Raging Sauls and Desperate Days. We all have had harsh bosses in our lives and there was a lot of discussion on these important topics. That same day we hosted a swim meet and said good-by to Pastor Kelley who had been the pastor of the Uijongbu Baptist Church for 11 years. Talk about having to be at the right place at the right time.
There are several prayer requests and praises for us:
• Praise for the mission that Tammy went on to Slovakia from 8-14 April.
• Tim and Jason are in a Bible Study on the Driven By Eternity by John Bevere and need prayer as they sort through doctrine and what this book says. They are doing the study on Wednesdays at our house.
• Yong Hui needs wisdom as she continues her Bibles studies and volunteers in our church.
• Our school and church sent out one mission team and the Uijongbu Community Church sent out another mission team during Spring Break. Both went to the Philippines. Pray for protection and for success.
• Praise God that our swimming team finished strong as we had a good showing at our friendly meet on 14 April at home and at the KAIAC championship of 28 April.
• Our Uijongbu Baptist Church changed pastors this month. Pray for Pastor Kelley who returned to the United States after 12 years here and pray for Pastor Tom Vasel as he assumed the duties of the senior pastor.
Saturday, April 7, 2007
March 2007 Report
Hi Friends
It was a short 31 years ago today that Yong Hui and I were married somewhere between the Eighth Army Staff Judge Advocate’s Office, the Office of the Mayor of Seoul, and the U.S. Embassy. A lot has happened since then and we have lived all over the world, but the bottom line is that I would do it all over again, but I would try to be more romantic this time around.
We finish this month ready for the Easter Season. It is still hard to believe how the crowds waving palm branches on Palm Sunday were crying “Crucify Him” within that same week. But the good news is that He is not in the grave, but He is risen! That has been our theme at ICS.
Of course, all the soldiers are tired now because they have completed a 31-day long march.
On 1 March the commander of the Joint Security Area, Panmunjom invited me for a tour of the area because he had heard I was not able to walk around the Panmunjom Poplar Tree Site when I was on a USO sponsored tour. I took 6 other teachers and we had a great day as we toured the area. I was embarrassed about the special treatment I received but was glad to do things that I had always wanted to do – walk half way across the Bridge of No Return, look at North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette, and take a picture of a North Korean guard from North Korea. We all prayed for North Korea on North Korean soil as we were in the Military Armistice Commission Meeting room. That was special to pray for the country that persecutes Christians most on its own soil.
I am the coach of the swim team and our verse is II Timothy 4:7 as we endeavor to “Fight the good fight, finish the course, and keep the faith.” This was important because five of our swimmers started unable to swim one lap. (Now we only have three unable to swim 25 meters). Several others could not complete the 50-meter swims that are the minimal distance. In fact, at a prayer and praise session at my school I remarked any swimming practice is good when I do not drown a student. My assistant coach remarked after one meet that “we single-handedly added 10 minutes to the length of the meet” as three of our swimmers stayed in the pool to finish their laps long after everyone else had finished. I am proud of their effort in finishing the course. I have the girls team that swam in our first meet pictured. There are now two more girls and we have 8 boys (who broke my camera when I took their picture).
This was an interesting month as our seniors are getting accepted to colleges and as they share in the excitement of preparing to go off to the real world. (Seniors in my classes are going to the University of Washington, Purdue, Wheaton, Liberty – to name a few)We had a teacher for the United States talk at chapel and to our biology classes on Creation verses Evolution and why we can believe the Bible. That was a very important series (3 days) for our school in general and our seniors in particular as they will be questioned on their Christian faith when they leave the shelter of our school.
Yong Hui continues to serve here in Uijongbu. She prays daily from 0500 to 0600 at the local Korean Church which is one block from our house. She has her Bible Study on Tuesday and helps clean the church on Thursdays. If that is not enough, she is preparing to be an acupuncturist by attending classes every Wednesday morning.
We finished the Wild at Heart by John Eldridge Bible study and are now going through Max Lucado’s Facing Your Giants as we are looking at the life of David. There is a neat slogan: Focus on Giants – You stumble. Focus on God – Your Giants Tumble. I will lead the next lesson on 14 April that will focus on Raging Sauls and Desperate Days. These lessons are very appropriate for the leaders of the Warrior Division. By the way, we all rejoiced with the Division Chaplain Mike Durham who was promoted to Colonel this month.
There are several prayer requests and praises for us:
• Pray for Tammy as she goes to Slovakia on mission from 8-14 April.
• Praise God for the Experiencing God class I led during Sunday School . I refreshed a lot of concepts I had not thought about for a long time.
• Tim and Jason are in a Bible Study on the Driven By Eternity by John Bevere and need prayer as they sort through doctrine and what this book says. They are doing the study on Wednesdays at our house.
• Yong Hui needs wisdom as she continues her Bibles studies.
• Our school and church sent out one mission team and the Uijongbu Community Church sent out another mission team during Spring Break. Both went to the Philippines. Pray for protection and for success.
• Pray our swimming team will finish strong as we have a friendly meet on 14 April at home and the KAIAC championship of 28 April to go.
• I have the chapel message on 2 May, pray for me as I prepare it.
• Our Uijongbu Baptist Church changes pastors this month. Pray for Pastor Kelley who returns to the United States after 12 years here and pray for Pastor Tom Vasel as he assumes the duties of the senior pastor.
It was a short 31 years ago today that Yong Hui and I were married somewhere between the Eighth Army Staff Judge Advocate’s Office, the Office of the Mayor of Seoul, and the U.S. Embassy. A lot has happened since then and we have lived all over the world, but the bottom line is that I would do it all over again, but I would try to be more romantic this time around.
We finish this month ready for the Easter Season. It is still hard to believe how the crowds waving palm branches on Palm Sunday were crying “Crucify Him” within that same week. But the good news is that He is not in the grave, but He is risen! That has been our theme at ICS.
Of course, all the soldiers are tired now because they have completed a 31-day long march.
On 1 March the commander of the Joint Security Area, Panmunjom invited me for a tour of the area because he had heard I was not able to walk around the Panmunjom Poplar Tree Site when I was on a USO sponsored tour. I took 6 other teachers and we had a great day as we toured the area. I was embarrassed about the special treatment I received but was glad to do things that I had always wanted to do – walk half way across the Bridge of No Return, look at North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette, and take a picture of a North Korean guard from North Korea. We all prayed for North Korea on North Korean soil as we were in the Military Armistice Commission Meeting room. That was special to pray for the country that persecutes Christians most on its own soil.
I am the coach of the swim team and our verse is II Timothy 4:7 as we endeavor to “Fight the good fight, finish the course, and keep the faith.” This was important because five of our swimmers started unable to swim one lap. (Now we only have three unable to swim 25 meters). Several others could not complete the 50-meter swims that are the minimal distance. In fact, at a prayer and praise session at my school I remarked any swimming practice is good when I do not drown a student. My assistant coach remarked after one meet that “we single-handedly added 10 minutes to the length of the meet” as three of our swimmers stayed in the pool to finish their laps long after everyone else had finished. I am proud of their effort in finishing the course. I have the girls team that swam in our first meet pictured. There are now two more girls and we have 8 boys (who broke my camera when I took their picture).
This was an interesting month as our seniors are getting accepted to colleges and as they share in the excitement of preparing to go off to the real world. (Seniors in my classes are going to the University of Washington, Purdue, Wheaton, Liberty – to name a few)We had a teacher for the United States talk at chapel and to our biology classes on Creation verses Evolution and why we can believe the Bible. That was a very important series (3 days) for our school in general and our seniors in particular as they will be questioned on their Christian faith when they leave the shelter of our school.
Yong Hui continues to serve here in Uijongbu. She prays daily from 0500 to 0600 at the local Korean Church which is one block from our house. She has her Bible Study on Tuesday and helps clean the church on Thursdays. If that is not enough, she is preparing to be an acupuncturist by attending classes every Wednesday morning.
We finished the Wild at Heart by John Eldridge Bible study and are now going through Max Lucado’s Facing Your Giants as we are looking at the life of David. There is a neat slogan: Focus on Giants – You stumble. Focus on God – Your Giants Tumble. I will lead the next lesson on 14 April that will focus on Raging Sauls and Desperate Days. These lessons are very appropriate for the leaders of the Warrior Division. By the way, we all rejoiced with the Division Chaplain Mike Durham who was promoted to Colonel this month.
There are several prayer requests and praises for us:
• Pray for Tammy as she goes to Slovakia on mission from 8-14 April.
• Praise God for the Experiencing God class I led during Sunday School . I refreshed a lot of concepts I had not thought about for a long time.
• Tim and Jason are in a Bible Study on the Driven By Eternity by John Bevere and need prayer as they sort through doctrine and what this book says. They are doing the study on Wednesdays at our house.
• Yong Hui needs wisdom as she continues her Bibles studies.
• Our school and church sent out one mission team and the Uijongbu Community Church sent out another mission team during Spring Break. Both went to the Philippines. Pray for protection and for success.
• Pray our swimming team will finish strong as we have a friendly meet on 14 April at home and the KAIAC championship of 28 April to go.
• I have the chapel message on 2 May, pray for me as I prepare it.
• Our Uijongbu Baptist Church changes pastors this month. Pray for Pastor Kelley who returns to the United States after 12 years here and pray for Pastor Tom Vasel as he assumes the duties of the senior pastor.
Saturday, March 3, 2007
February Report
Dear Friends,
There is a lot of news in this short month because we had our Spiritual Emphasis Week, Lunar New Year’s celebration, start of swimming season, and more.
The Praise Team leads worship at every chapel and they were busy during the chapel services for the Spiritual Emphasis Week as well as for the normal Wednesday chapels. Please see a photo later on in the letter. Two former teachers who knew the kids and who were well known by the kids came and had the students in the palm of their hands during the chapel messages. The purity seminar was great for the boys as he spoke on being a man of honor. I was told the girls equally enjoyed theirs.
I had the chapel service immediately following the Spiritual Emphasis Week and I used the theme “Why do you believe what you believe?” as I followed the emphasis of the speaker of the week. We do our sermons in PowerPoint so the students who are weak in their grasp of the English language can have a visual aid.
Yong Hui stays busy leading her Hodos Group Bible Study as she is going through the Experiencing God book.
I have really been busy at Camp Red Cloud. I led one study on the strategy for being a man who is able to defeat the enemy in the Wild At Heart study. We have a great time of study and fellowship at 0800 hours every other Saturday.
Please pray for:
• I led one girl to the Lord last week. She had felt she had such a great sin that Jesus would not accept her and I took her through several passages and then down the Romans Road and she accepted Jesus. Pray for Rose and her friend Kimi who was able to perceive it was time to bring her to an adult.
• For Yong Hui in her ladies Bible Study which is now called the Hodos Group (Greek for The Way)
• Pray for Tammy who has some major decisions to make.
• Pray for Jason who is still looking for a permanent job.
• Pray for our seniors who are busily seeking colleges to attend. Pray they will have patience as they wait. Several are still taking SAT tests or SAT-II. Some of the juniors have started to take these tests.
• We have all our staff for next year finalized. Pray for the two new teachers.
• Pray for our Experiencing God Sunday School class which finished next Sunday.
• Pray for the Wild At Heart Men’s Group at Camp Red Cloud and lift up all the chapel staff of the 2nd Infantry Division. Pray for the National Day of Prayer which will be celebrated on 1 Mar at Camp Red Cloud with the Division Commander, MG Coggin speaking on the Warrior’s Faith.
• Pray for one of the chaplains Chris who is in the hospital with a burst appendix.
• Pray for the swimming team. Our verse is 2 Tim 4:7 “I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.” We have 5 swimmers who cannot complete one lap and they are distraction for the 8 serious swimmers. So, I need to build them up (during the season) without disrupting the hard practice for the team. Coach Annalisa Benner is helping me and she has been great.
• Pray for our return trip to the Joint Security Area on 1Mar as I have a VIP tour lined up that will enable me to visit the Panmunjom Axe Murder site with the battalion commander of the JSA.
There is a lot of news in this short month because we had our Spiritual Emphasis Week, Lunar New Year’s celebration, start of swimming season, and more.
The Praise Team leads worship at every chapel and they were busy during the chapel services for the Spiritual Emphasis Week as well as for the normal Wednesday chapels. Please see a photo later on in the letter. Two former teachers who knew the kids and who were well known by the kids came and had the students in the palm of their hands during the chapel messages. The purity seminar was great for the boys as he spoke on being a man of honor. I was told the girls equally enjoyed theirs.
I had the chapel service immediately following the Spiritual Emphasis Week and I used the theme “Why do you believe what you believe?” as I followed the emphasis of the speaker of the week. We do our sermons in PowerPoint so the students who are weak in their grasp of the English language can have a visual aid.
Yong Hui stays busy leading her Hodos Group Bible Study as she is going through the Experiencing God book.
I have really been busy at Camp Red Cloud. I led one study on the strategy for being a man who is able to defeat the enemy in the Wild At Heart study. We have a great time of study and fellowship at 0800 hours every other Saturday.
Please pray for:
• I led one girl to the Lord last week. She had felt she had such a great sin that Jesus would not accept her and I took her through several passages and then down the Romans Road and she accepted Jesus. Pray for Rose and her friend Kimi who was able to perceive it was time to bring her to an adult.
• For Yong Hui in her ladies Bible Study which is now called the Hodos Group (Greek for The Way)
• Pray for Tammy who has some major decisions to make.
• Pray for Jason who is still looking for a permanent job.
• Pray for our seniors who are busily seeking colleges to attend. Pray they will have patience as they wait. Several are still taking SAT tests or SAT-II. Some of the juniors have started to take these tests.
• We have all our staff for next year finalized. Pray for the two new teachers.
• Pray for our Experiencing God Sunday School class which finished next Sunday.
• Pray for the Wild At Heart Men’s Group at Camp Red Cloud and lift up all the chapel staff of the 2nd Infantry Division. Pray for the National Day of Prayer which will be celebrated on 1 Mar at Camp Red Cloud with the Division Commander, MG Coggin speaking on the Warrior’s Faith.
• Pray for one of the chaplains Chris who is in the hospital with a burst appendix.
• Pray for the swimming team. Our verse is 2 Tim 4:7 “I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.” We have 5 swimmers who cannot complete one lap and they are distraction for the 8 serious swimmers. So, I need to build them up (during the season) without disrupting the hard practice for the team. Coach Annalisa Benner is helping me and she has been great.
• Pray for our return trip to the Joint Security Area on 1Mar as I have a VIP tour lined up that will enable me to visit the Panmunjom Axe Murder site with the battalion commander of the JSA.
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