Seoul-Searching

These are pictures from Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea.

*(We are only 3 weeks away)

We are so excited in anticipation of our trip to South Korea. Our group has been meeting and praying for God's wisdom and protection. Our hearts' desire is that we want to go and serve only Him.

I have heard stories about the large congregations over there (they are the largest in the world for several denominations), so I decided to do a little "Seoul-searching"(forgive the pun but I had to do it :).
Above, Yoido Full Gospel Church, has about 830,000 members with claims that they are the biggest church in the world. WOW!
On Sundays they have services every two hours, each attended by over 12,000 people, in the vast rooms of their downtown Seoul location. All the services are in Korean, but are also simultaneously translated into English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, and more.
The church has been around since 1958, and has grown exponentially, taking a stronghold in a country with Buddhist and Shamanist roots.
After the Korean War, American missionaries came in and preached the gospel of truth and peace which offered an escape from the miseries of war through faith in Jesus Christ alone.

I am humbled to think that we will soon be sharing this same gospel to some idol-worshiping seekers that still have many questions about our faith in Jesus Christ. I am eager to point them to our Savior and to His Word.
For that is all I know, but I do know,
that it is everything to me.

Please pray for all those we will come in contact with, and that we will be bold in our witness and testimony.

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek." Romans 1:16

"But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." Galatians 6:14