Team Jeju BLUE
Believing, Loving, Understanding, Equipping
June 30, 2010 Issue #2
My dearest friends and prayer partners, I ask the Father for his continued blessings upon you and your families. We hope that you are experiencing good health and happiness as well as success in all efforts to extend the Kingdom of Heaven. Thank you very much for all the faithful prayer support offered on behalf of our ministry to the Jeju people. We depend on it as much as the air we breathe!
I have so much to be thankful for it seems a shame to spend this time sharing with you about a situation that reflects failure and pain. However, I trust you with good news and bad. My partner, Sue Park, and I have reached an impasse in our relationship which requires a course correction. In August of this year we will both leave Jeju for what we call Stateside Assignment (STAS). Sue will go on to serve the Lord in some other capacity with our sending organization but will not be returning to Jeju Island. The Hamlines will spend about five (5) months in the USA and return to Korea in January 2011. With sorrow and some degree of shame I admit a personal failure to properly lead the Jeju Team to victory in Jesus Christ.
My personal shortcoming is also evident in my very limited grasp of the Korean language. My supervisor has very graciously agreed to relocate our family to Seoul upon return from STAS in order to enroll in a formal language training program. I have been given one (1) additional year of full-time study to acquire an adequate level of proficiency in Korean to competently carry out my responsibilities as a missionary. With your prayers, God’s Grace and my hard work, I hope to return in January 2012 better equipped to facilitate a church planting movement among the blue-collar workers of Jeju Island. Please pray for Sue Park and my family as we undergo these major changes in our lives and ministries.
On a more positive note, we will be hosting a summer mission team from the USA in July. Sue Park is taking the lead in coordinating this effort to sponsor a Vacation Bible School at Sun In (선인) Baptist Church near Jeju City. Please join us in praying for a harvest of young people from a nearby apartment complex as we seek to share the good news of Jesus Christ with these children and their parents. I would also ask you to pray for the people that live in SoGilRi (소길리) a small farming community with no Christian witness. We have conducted several prayer-walks in this village and are searching for a person-of-peace to open the doors of opportunity for sharing the gospel message with these shamanistic senior citizens.
Finally, I ask you to continue interceding for the lost of Jeju Island. I’m claiming the promise of God found in Romans 8:28, “We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose.” Our Father is Sovereign, and even in our personal failures He insists on receiving unto Himself great Glory. I don’t know how, when, or where but I’m certain that God’s plan is for many of the people of Jeju to come to him in faith through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I still want to participate with Him in this plan and I encourage you my brothers and sisters in Christ to keep the faith and remain firm in your prayer advocacy for these lost souls of Jeju Island.
Hamline Happenings
The end of the school year has finally arrived. David is now home with us. He did much better this second semester. Please pray that he will learn some positive lessons from his experiences of this past school year. Daniel just finished testing for his black belt in Taekwondo. He is really excited about this accomplishment. Andrew is going through a big growth spurt and is becoming a teenager. He doesn’t turn 13 until November, but he is already stretching his wings. Noah just celebrated his 10th birthday. He has really matured this past school year, and he is taking a bigger interest in his schoolwork. YEAH! This coming school year, we will be in America for our stateside time. The boys will be in public school for the fall semester. They are really excited about this new experience but are also a little nervous. The younger three have been homeschooled for the past 6 school years so this will be a big change. There will be lots of opportunities to be involved in many activities. Please pray that they will not be too overwhelmed by all the new things they will experience, and that they will grow socially as well as spiritually during this time of change.
Believing, Loving, Understanding, Equipping
June 30, 2010 Issue #2
My dearest friends and prayer partners, I ask the Father for his continued blessings upon you and your families. We hope that you are experiencing good health and happiness as well as success in all efforts to extend the Kingdom of Heaven. Thank you very much for all the faithful prayer support offered on behalf of our ministry to the Jeju people. We depend on it as much as the air we breathe!
I have so much to be thankful for it seems a shame to spend this time sharing with you about a situation that reflects failure and pain. However, I trust you with good news and bad. My partner, Sue Park, and I have reached an impasse in our relationship which requires a course correction. In August of this year we will both leave Jeju for what we call Stateside Assignment (STAS). Sue will go on to serve the Lord in some other capacity with our sending organization but will not be returning to Jeju Island. The Hamlines will spend about five (5) months in the USA and return to Korea in January 2011. With sorrow and some degree of shame I admit a personal failure to properly lead the Jeju Team to victory in Jesus Christ.
My personal shortcoming is also evident in my very limited grasp of the Korean language. My supervisor has very graciously agreed to relocate our family to Seoul upon return from STAS in order to enroll in a formal language training program. I have been given one (1) additional year of full-time study to acquire an adequate level of proficiency in Korean to competently carry out my responsibilities as a missionary. With your prayers, God’s Grace and my hard work, I hope to return in January 2012 better equipped to facilitate a church planting movement among the blue-collar workers of Jeju Island. Please pray for Sue Park and my family as we undergo these major changes in our lives and ministries.
On a more positive note, we will be hosting a summer mission team from the USA in July. Sue Park is taking the lead in coordinating this effort to sponsor a Vacation Bible School at Sun In (선인) Baptist Church near Jeju City. Please join us in praying for a harvest of young people from a nearby apartment complex as we seek to share the good news of Jesus Christ with these children and their parents. I would also ask you to pray for the people that live in SoGilRi (소길리) a small farming community with no Christian witness. We have conducted several prayer-walks in this village and are searching for a person-of-peace to open the doors of opportunity for sharing the gospel message with these shamanistic senior citizens.
Finally, I ask you to continue interceding for the lost of Jeju Island. I’m claiming the promise of God found in Romans 8:28, “We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose.” Our Father is Sovereign, and even in our personal failures He insists on receiving unto Himself great Glory. I don’t know how, when, or where but I’m certain that God’s plan is for many of the people of Jeju to come to him in faith through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I still want to participate with Him in this plan and I encourage you my brothers and sisters in Christ to keep the faith and remain firm in your prayer advocacy for these lost souls of Jeju Island.
Hamline Happenings
The end of the school year has finally arrived. David is now home with us. He did much better this second semester. Please pray that he will learn some positive lessons from his experiences of this past school year. Daniel just finished testing for his black belt in Taekwondo. He is really excited about this accomplishment. Andrew is going through a big growth spurt and is becoming a teenager. He doesn’t turn 13 until November, but he is already stretching his wings. Noah just celebrated his 10th birthday. He has really matured this past school year, and he is taking a bigger interest in his schoolwork. YEAH! This coming school year, we will be in America for our stateside time. The boys will be in public school for the fall semester. They are really excited about this new experience but are also a little nervous. The younger three have been homeschooled for the past 6 school years so this will be a big change. There will be lots of opportunities to be involved in many activities. Please pray that they will not be too overwhelmed by all the new things they will experience, and that they will grow socially as well as spiritually during this time of change.
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