Beginnings...

Being here in South Korea is nothing at all what I expected, but from what God has taught me during my previous trip abroad is to lay down all expectations, go with the flow, and have patience with all the miscommunication that will occur. You can’t put a country in a box labeled this, that and whatever else. Much like South Africa (another misconstrued country in my head), South Korea is extremely well established. So much so that I would have no trouble saying it’s right there with the USA…in a cramped kind of cozy atmosphere.

Cramped, meaning most streets only have room for two cars total, yet they park cars on either side, and traffic from both directions take turns weaving through, somehow missing car mirrors, the oncoming vehicle, bicyclists and pedestrians who cross whenever and wherever they feel fit.

Cozy meaning the cars, the clothing, the cups, the tables, and especially the people are extremely tiny! My 2 year old nephew Ethan is around the size of a 4 year old boy who is in my kindergarten class.

Mike and I both teach English, and a barrel full of other subjects we somehow attached ourselves to, at Mokdong International Christian School (MICS). All the work sometimes seems a bit overwhelming for me, especially because I wasn’t really prepared for teaching and I constantly have doubts about my actual ability to teach. I love how God is teaching me to be a teacher while I’m in the middle of being a teacher’. He definitely likes using weak people haha.

God is always funny when it comes to what I think I will be doing and what He has me do. I’m not really sure how I periodically come to think that I have it all figured out…I guess I get an idea in my head and run like crazy with it, yet I’m always so surprised when He wants me to go the exact opposite direction. He has blessed us immensely since this whole Korea idea was started. Holding our hands and pointing out the way to go, multiplying our effort and our finances again and again.


Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray that we take time to listen to what God is speaking to us.
2. Please pray for our school MICS. It is just starting up and needs more children to enroll and more foreign teachers employed.
3. We have been asked to start an English service at Dong San church, with Mike preaching and both of us leading music worship.
4. Our health…we both have lingering sinus infections and colds.
5. Mike is training for his black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
6. Miscommunication
7. That we can find the orphanage I was originally going to be working at