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Joo-si, testing one. What, what didn't I turn on? Did I not press the left one? Oh, that's working. Uh. Oh, how many? When I sing this song, 'Those who possess true love,' I see the pastor's face right there. Oh, that's the face. Please change it. Those who possess love always enjoy joy and share that joy with their neighbors. [Song] The Lord is love, the Lord is love, Lord, make me like You. Those who possess true love always enjoy joy and share that joy with their neighbors. [Song] I see our pastor when I sing this song. What happens if our pastor here requests it? Pastor Park Jin-young, please stand up quickly. Please stand up quickly. Look behind you. Doesn't this pastor's face look like this song? True love [Song] Those who possess it always enjoy joy and share that joy with their neighbors. [Song] The Lord is [Song] love, Lord, make me like [Song] You. Those who possess true love always enjoy joy and share that joy with their neighbors. [Song] Only sin and sorrow in this land, this has been stuck since earlier.

Oh, that's it. Yes. Okay. Third, only sin and sorrow in this land [Song] living, while beating time, always with a loving heart, save souls. [Song] The Lord is love, [Song] Lord, make me like You. True love [Song] Those who possess it always enjoy joy and share that joy with their neighbors. This world passes away and [Song] when the new world comes, I will praise the Lord and His love. [Song] The Lord is love, Lord, make me like You. Those who possess true love always enjoy joy and share that joy with their neighbors. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen. You see, I was listening to Dr. Jo Sang-ik's second lecture this morning, and I thought, 'Wow, yesterday I saw a man shedding tears, and I wondered how something like that could be so graceful.' But this doctor always teaches like this, right? Like this, like this. And his wife is also one of the best obstetricians in our country. There are two children between those two doctor parents, and I'm curious about what kind of people they will become.

They all came together this time. Ten thousand angels praise, and all the heavens respond, and a joyful sound is heard. Where is it? It is heaven. It is heaven. Where is that heaven? It is here in the P.U.C. auditorium. Amen. Try smiling. Why aren't you smiling? I told you to smile, so try smiling. Our Elder. Elder Kim Jong-si, please smile. Those who live in America usually smile on the inside. Oh, the prelude is starting. E-flat, no, that's too high. No. Wait a minute. Back, back, back. Beating time, ten thousand angels praise, and all [Song] respond, and a joyful sound is heard. [Song] It is heaven. I have come to heaven, I have come to heaven. I have come to the heaven I longed for. [Song] I will live in heaven. [Song] I will live forever and ever. Women, Hallelujah. With a hot voice, [Song] respond with a song, [Song] it is heaven. Everyone together, I have come to heaven, [Song] I have come to the heaven I longed for, I will live in heaven. [Song] I will live forever and ever. Men, tears [Song] are gone, there is no more worldly sorrow, praise, praise, eternal praise, it is heaven. Together [Song] I have come to [Song] heaven, I have come to the heaven I longed for, [Song] I will live in heaven.

I will live forever and ever. [Song] Christ's infinite glory [Song] brighter than the sunlight, [Song] praising the Lamb, it is heaven. [Song] I have come to heaven, I have come to heaven, I have come to the heaven I longed for. [Song] I will live in heaven. I will live forever and ever. [Song] Amen. [Cheers] Why am I the only one cheering? Shouldn't we do it together? You say you will live in heaven forever, but you don't seem very happy. Don't you like it? Shall we do it again? I have come to heaven. [Song] I have come to the heaven I longed for. I will live in heaven. [Song] I will live forever. [Song] Woo. Ah, now, now I feel it. Ah. Oh, it's so good that the piano is even playing the fanfare. Yes. Our pianist knows all the chords, so it just flows out, and we are so happy. Can we do one more? Yes. Time is up. Oh, is it? Prayer. Yes. After the prayer, this time is for the ministry message of Missionary Kwon Soon-beom, who is serving the Lord's word in Taiwan.

In a place where language, culture, and symbols are all different, please grant health to the pastor and his family who are dedicated to their mission solely according to God's command. Even if there are many difficulties and obstacles, please let the Holy Spirit be with them so that all the work they plan while spreading God's word may go well. We will hear the word from there through Pastor Kwon Soon-beom, who is standing here. Please guide us so that we can all feel the grace, difficulties, and needs through the word and become participants who help. We all pray for Pastor Kwon Soon-beom's ministry in Taiwan, and we pray all these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Yes, hello. Yes. I will show you a mission video made by our Taiwan Mission before we start our testimony. [Song] (Foreign language lyrics) ... [Song] ... [Song] ... Hello. Did you have a delicious meal?

Uh, before the meal, you must have had a happy time through the testimony of Mr. Jo Sang-ik. It's a bit of a sleepy time, but let's have a time to share our mission testimony together. I finished my message in Taiwan last Sunday, and immediately, yes, I took a flight to Manila, changed planes there, and arrived at this campsite at 2:00 AM on Sunday. So [clears throat] I am here now, and I am sleeping when I should sleep and staying awake as much as possible when I should be awake to adjust to the jet lag. But I am very grateful that even in the music just now, everything comes out in Chinese. The characters are also Chinese, and the place where I am is a place that uses Chinese. So, although I am not very good at it, I preach in Chinese at least three times every week, so I am very grateful just to be able to speak in Korean like this while abroad. Yesterday, Missionary Cho Bong-gil must have been very happy to be able to speak in Korean, and I am also grateful to God once again for being able to speak in my mother tongue here today.

Above all, I am grateful that God led me here and gave me the opportunity to share the word at this time. I would like us to read the word of Isaiah 49:6 from the Old Testament together. Shall we read it together? He, start, He says, 'It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.' The book of Isaiah was written about 700 years before Jesus came to this earth. But 700 years before Jesus came, there is already a vision in this verse. Do you see the word 'ends of the earth'? Whenever we think of the word 'ends of the earth,' we think of the book of Acts, but we can see that the book of Acts already quoted this verse from Isaiah. So, in Isaiah 49:6, God's vision of salvation does not belong only to Israel. What was the purpose of calling Israel?

To make them a light to the Gentiles and to bring salvation to where? To the ends of the earth. Do you believe that God has called you and me? Why did He call you and me? To make us a light to the Gentiles and to bring that salvation to where? To the ends of the earth is our God's plan. So, if you look at Isaiah 19, stories of Egypt and Assyria appear quite often. Especially in Isaiah 19:23, it says, 'In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.' But let's look at who the subject of this worship is again. It's verse 24. 'In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, 'Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.''

When I read this verse, I didn't understand it well. Because to the south, where is it? Egypt. And at that time, before Babylon appeared in the north, where was the most powerful country? Assyria. To put it simply, Assyria and Egypt were countries that always tormented Israel, but God called these three countries, what did He say? 'Egypt My people, Assyria the work of My hands, Israel My inheritance.' These three will be a blessing in the midst of the land and will worship together. [Snort] It's hard to understand, right? Even though they are countries that torment God's people Israel, God is showing that Egypt and Assyria are also included in God's plan of salvation. So, the word of Isaiah 49:6 is exactly this word. What is the purpose of calling us? To make us a light to the Gentiles and to bring salvation to where? To the ends of the earth. But looking at this verse, 'Oh, what you are doing is a very small thing.' This small thing is that the people of Israel were full of thoughts of saving only the people of Israel, thinking only of their own salvation. Where were they trying to spread this salvation?

They were trying to spread it only to the Jews. God is saying that is a very small thing, a minor thing. Now, the purpose for which I called you is not to do this small thing, but to make you a light to the Gentiles and to bring salvation to where? To the ends of the earth. That is our God's vision. But this vision was already recorded in this book of Isaiah 700 years before Jesus came. Did the Jews, the people of Israel, fulfill this mission well, which was recorded 700 years ago? They did not fulfill it well. They thought that salvation was only for the Jews. Jesus emphasized this vision of the ends of the earth again in Acts 1:8. 'But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.' The duty of you and me is to testify. Who are we testifying about? We are testifying about Jesus Christ.

In Isaiah 49:6, it said that He would bring salvation to the ends of the earth, and when I looked at the Hebrew word for salvation, it is 'Yeshua,' which is the same as what? Jesus' name. Who is the one we must spread to the ends of the earth? It is Jesus Christ. Because Jesus Christ is salvation itself. So, we must become witnesses, and we, as spiritual Israel, must now fulfill the mission that these Jews failed to succeed in, failed to obey. The power of the gospel is by no means weak. What is the problem? It is the unprepared witnesses. We always have this burden about evangelism and missions. But because of that burden, I know there are some of you who have never shared the gospel with anyone. It's not that the gospel is weak; it's that we are not yet prepared to testify. Regarding the power of this gospel, the word 'power' in Acts 1:8 has the same etymology as dynamite.

It has explosive power, but the problem is that there is a wall blocking it inside. Ephesians says this. He broke down the middle wall of separation. Jesus Christ came and broke down this middle wall of separation. What is that wall of separation? It is the wall that existed between the Jews and the Gentiles. It is the prejudice in your and my hearts. Our Jesus wants to break down that wall that makes it difficult to share the gospel with someone. What is the heart that the people of Israel, the Jews, always had? It is a sense of being the chosen people. That deep-rooted sense of being the chosen people is the thought that only I, the Jews, are clean, and the Gentiles are what? Unclean. If we go to Acts 10, looking at the word of Acts 10, the story of Peter appears. What kind of person was this Peter? This Peter was the most enthusiastic disciple among Jesus' 12 disciples. But looking at the word of Acts 10, what word is there in Acts 10? I'm sorry. Looking at Acts 10, this Peter, it appears as 12 o'clock, the sixth hour. In today's terms, at noon, at 12 o'clock, he went up to the roof to pray. He was praying on the rooftop, and I think he was praying very hard. But in the middle of that prayer, he sees a vision. But maybe because he was praying so hard, he was hungry, and in that vision, the sky opened, and what comes down from the sky? A large sheet comes down, and what is inside that sheet?

All kinds of unclean animals. And what does He say? He says to kill and eat. How many times? Three times. But in the end, what did Peter do? He said, 'Lord, I cannot.' This is not a matter of eating. Through this vision, God wanted to break down his wall of separation. As you know well, if you look at Acts 10, it doesn't start with Peter's story. From verses 1 to 3, it starts with the story of a man named Cornelius. The Bible records that Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian Regiment, was a devout man. That he usually gave alms and prayed. Before that, Peter had earnestness, but that earnestness was an earnestness that could not yet see Cornelius. Because he had a wall of separation like a sense of being the chosen people in his heart. But the Holy Spirit broke his prejudice through a vision, and now He wants to see who? God wanted him to see that there were prepared people like Cornelius even among the Gentiles around him. So, He broke down the wall in Peter's heart and had him share the gospel.

Everyone here, what kind of wall do you have in your heart? Today, our Lord earnestly wants to break down the wall in your and my hearts. Our God, while telling this story of Peter, tells the story of Cornelius, and through this amazing timing, He makes Peter meet the prayer of Cornelius, who was praying the day before at 3 PM, through his own prayer the next day at noon. And at that amazing timing, Cornelius' men come and find Peter and say so. But in Acts 10:17, what does the Holy Spirit say? 'Do not doubt, go.' He says to go together. Acts says this. Peter was hungry not only for physical food but also longed for the salvation of his countrymen. The salvation of his countrymen is what? He longed only for the salvation of the Jews. It continues to say. But among the disciples, when was it? Jesus had already ascended. But among the disciples, no one had yet shared the gospel with the Gentiles. In their hearts, what is still there? The broken wall still exists, and their efforts were limited to whom? Only to the Jews, it says. Because Peter was also a Jew, and he had that deep-rooted prejudice against Gentiles, a sense of being the chosen people, in his heart.

If you have any prejudice or walls in your heart today, I hope the Holy Spirit will break down our hearts. The very reason Jesus came to this earth was to break down the middle wall of separation between the Gentiles and the Jews. So, He brought salvation to where? To the ends of the earth, and today you and I are included in that salvation. There were three refusals during Peter's hunger and prayer, and in the midst of the deep-rooted sense of being the chosen people that Gentiles could not be saved, what does the Holy Spirit say in Acts 10:19? 'Do not doubt, go together.' You were just thinking about the vision. What on earth is this dream? What on earth is this vision?

The Holy Spirit says, 'Do not doubt, go with the people who have come now.' Ah, I am standing here now, and it has been about 11 years since I went to Taiwan. But as a missionary, I am a very unsuitable person. Like Peter, perhaps I had a wall tightly blocked in my heart. I am a pastor's son, and I grew up in the church, so I think I was about 20 years more conservative than my age without even knowing it. But in 2003, there was a baptism ceremony at the beach. At that time, Sahmyook University held small group retreats in Nakdan in the summer and in the Garden of the Deer in the winter, and it was a retreat with about 300 people attending. If you look here, the young man wearing black clothes on the right in this photo is me. I probably weigh about 20kg less than I do now. We had summer vacation and a retreat, and it was 6 AM. We had a baptism ceremony at the East Sea at 6 AM, and the pastor was a little short, and the student receiving baptism was a little tall, so they went in to block the waves. But since I was the youngest, the youngest in the organizing committee, the seniors told me to go in.

Everyone, how would it be to go into the East Sea at 6 AM in the summer? Oh, it's cold, right? And how is it? It's sticky. And you have to come out and what? You have to wash again, right? I really didn't want to go in, but since they told me to go in, how was it? I went in. It was a touching baptism ceremony. At the end of the three-day, four-night retreat, two people decided to be baptized and were baptized. If you look at the expressions during this touching baptism ceremony, they are very serious and not in a good mood. Because I didn't want to go in. But inside that, I started to think, 'One person believes in Jesus and gets baptized, how can a person make a decision in just three days and four nights?' I thought. At least to believe in Jesus, shouldn't you study the Bible with a pastor for about 6 months, then go to the Sabbath diligently, and even what? Shouldn't you pay tithes? That was the thought in my heart as I grew up in the church. In this heart, there was exactly what? This big wall. It was a touching baptism ceremony, but there was no emotion of baptism, and 'Ah, I have to wash again after this, and it's sticky, and what? How can one person be baptized in 3 days and 4 nights?' At the end of the retreat.

But this friend gives a testimony. 'Ah, my friends told me to go play at the East Sea this summer vacation, so I came, and I was deceived. They were singing songs only they knew, singing hymns among themselves, and talking about Jesus. I thought I was really going to play, but I came thinking it was an MT, but what is it? It's this Christian gathering.' But through the pastor's message in the small group and the encouragement of friends in the small group, they decided to be baptized in three days and four nights. And 6 years later, she became my wife. Ah, when I was in that sea, she was a complete stranger, and I had never spoken a word to her, but I ended up marrying this person. Ah, I got married in 2009. Ah, if I talk about the marriage for a moment, thinking about it now, ah, I think I grew up listening to my father well. Ah, originally, I was going to study abroad at Andrews in 2009, and about 6 months before I went to study abroad, my father called me.

'Soon-beom, I heard you have a girlfriend, can I see her for a moment?' he said. 'Father, why?' 'Ah, let's meet and have a meal together.' I said. I told him, 'I'm not ready yet, so we've only been meeting for 2 years now. I think it would be good to get married after I finish graduate school after coming back from Andrews.' Father said, 'Ah, let's see her once.' We had a meal. We entered the restaurant, and my father and mother were there first, and my wife and I entered, and as soon as my father saw her, how was it? He told us to set a date. Ah, my wife was the only one in her family who had faith. So, I said, 'I'm not ready yet, Father, I'm 26. I'll be 29 after graduate school, so it's not too late to get married then.' But I think my father saw my wife's height. Ah, since my father is short, he thought, 'Our family can now change our genes,' so he told us to look at the tall person and 'Don't calculate anything, just get married and go together.' So, we got married in June 2009. And after we got married, we came to Andrews. And 4 months passed.

A call came from Korea. My mother-in-law is getting baptized. My father baptized my mother-in-law. Now, 17 years have passed, and she is serving as a deacon in a local church. Ah, Acts 16:31 says, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.' I married a person from a completely different environment, and for the first 5 years before God, there was a lot of conflict, and we fought as a couple. But time passed, and now we are here as missionaries together. Yes. Now our daughters have grown up a bit, and now our first daughter is entering high school, and now a middle school student, a 5th grader, we have three daughters like this. Did I change after I got married? Because we grew up in completely different environments, there were difficulties due to such different growth environments and lifestyles. Then I thought I would change, but after I graduated from graduate school and returned, the first place I worked in Korea was the chaplain's office.

I thought I had already changed, but people don't change easily. I worked at a hospital, and there were 400 patients hospitalized, and I was in charge of 100 of them. Rehabilitation medicine, neurology, neurology, pediatrics, and orthopedics, these people are my patients. So, my duty is to meet them and study the Bible and pray for them, but when I go in, they do what? They are wary. 'Did you come from an insurance company?' Because I went in wearing a suit, they thought I was from an insurance company. So, when I said, 'Shall I pray for you?' they said what? 'Ah, I'm a Buddhist, so don't pray.' But when do they change? They are in the operating room on the basement floor at 7:30 AM. Because I pray for those who are about to have surgery for the first time. But those people, until a moment ago, what? 'Ah, I'm a Buddhist, so don't pray,' but facing the operating room, they turn pale and grab my hand and ask why they are asking for prayer. When I try to hold their hand and pray, their hands are so cold. Because they are nervous.

And when I pray earnestly and they have surgery, and I meet them in the hospital room next time, what do they say? 'Oh, Evangelist, because of the Evangelist, I had a successful surgery.' From then on, what? It's disarmament. From then on, I can introduce Jesus. I started meeting many people like that, and now I have shared the Bible with one person for 3 or 4 weeks. This teacher says what? 'Amen. Amen.' And what? 'I believe.' Already this person has what in their heart? They are prepared. But who is still not prepared? It's me. It's only been 3 or 4 weeks, how can I baptize this person? At least what? For a person to be saved, shouldn't they study the Bible with me for 6 months, at least what? Attend the Sabbath for 6 months, and at least pay tithes to be saved? That was my thought. And then the next day, I went into that hospital room again. Ah, I went into the hospital room, and the teacher was not there.

So, I went to the ward station and asked the nurse. 'The teacher I met yesterday, did they go out with their family today?' Then she said what? 'They passed away this morning.' As you know, there is a memorial hall at the very bottom of the Sahmyook Hospital building. Ah, I sat in the memorial hall and cried and cried. I was so sorry and so apologetic. Because of whom? Because of guilt. This one person was already what? All prepared, but because of the prejudice I had, because I couldn't baptize them, because of that, I burst into tears without knowing it that day. After this person's incident, I changed. I must treat one person with sincerity. And I felt that the time given to me was not enough. When I was suffering so much from guilt, I was looking at the word of Romans, and in Romans 10:17, it said this.

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Already this teacher passed away, but I believe that person heard everything. And what? They said 'Amen, Amen' and accepted it. Even if I didn't know, this person at least has what? Faith. When I was so worried and struggling, there was this word in the word of Romans 10. 'That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.' It is verse 10. 'For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto what? Salvation.' Shall we read verse 13 together? 'For whoever,' start, 'For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.' There were conditions that I thought were so complicated for a person to believe in Jesus, right? But looking at Romans, there is no such thing. It's simple. Before, I thought Romans was very complicated, but in the word of Romans, if you believe in Jesus as Lord, confess with your mouth, and what? Accept it in your heart, you will be saved. Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

I realized that the conditions I had known so complicatedly that a person had to receive to believe in Jesus were my wrong prejudices. Since then, I worked at the hospital and really tried to do my best every day. I tried to do my best even if I met one person, and because the time given to me was not much, I tried to do my best for them. So, although they didn't understand at first, I really encouraged them. 'You must believe in Jesus. You must believe in Jesus to be saved.' Always in their hearts, these Buddhists have a heart like, 'If I believe in Jesus and get baptized, what if my sons have a car accident? What if my sons are cursed?' They have these worries in their hearts, but they feel true peace after believing in Jesus. After finishing 4 years of ministry in Korea like that, I applied to be a missionary. When I came out as a missionary, since the time given was not much, I came out as a missionary with the heart to do my best until Jesus comes again. So, many people ask me. 'What have you been doing for over 10 years on that small island?' And I say, 'I am looking for treasure.'

I am spreading the gospel of Jesus to people who don't know they are treasures, and I am telling them how much true value they have. One of the biggest ministries I am doing now is college student ministry. So, I am meeting college students at general national universities now and spreading the gospel. Ah, let me introduce the place called Taiwan for a moment. Have you been to this place called Taiwan? Is there anyone who has been there? Oh, many of you have been there. Taiwan is about two and a half hours from Korea, but in reality, I think it takes about two hours by plane. So, it's close. But it's a place with many challenges missionally and as many opportunities. [Snort] A shoe company sent two people to Africa. They told them to go to Africa and do market research. One employee returned and reported like this. 'Boss, I don't think it will work.' 'Why?' 'We saw that everyone walks barefoot. Ah, I don't think shoes will sell there.' But what does the second person say? 'Oh, it's now. We have to go in now.'

If we introduce our shoes now, what? We can sell shoes exclusively. Everyone, what kind of thoughts do you have regarding the gospel? When I went to Taiwan, Taiwan was the most troublesome place in the Northern Asia-Pacific Division. It was a place where it was not easy to spread the gospel and a place where people didn't want to go. But when I went, I think that Christians are a little over 1%. But there, what? I think now is the opportunity. If you think about this place called Taiwan, bubble tea, have you tried bubble tea? It is the country that is the origin of this bubble tea, and 30% of the population is vegetarian. But what kind of vegetarianism is it? It's a vegetarianism that doesn't even eat green onions, garlic, onions, and chives. So, they put a lot of ginger and cilantro in vegetarian food. Because there are many Buddhists and Taoists who don't eat these five pungent vegetables, 30% of the population is vegetarian. And it's a place with many earthquakes and typhoons, and until 1992, the red Chinese embassy in Myeong-dong, Korea, that place was originally the Taiwan embassy.

In '92, as we established diplomatic ties with China due to our Northern Policy, what happened to Taiwan? Diplomatic ties were severed, and now, crying, in '92, Taiwanese people left Korea. Chiang Kai-shek, the Nationalist Party governor you heard of, established this country by retreating after losing the war with the Communists. However, although 95% of Taiwan's population has Chinese blood, there were indigenous people who originally lived in Taiwan. There are 16 tribes of indigenous people, and if you look at the video earlier, many indigenous people appear. They have the same skin as Filipinos. They say they are almost the same in terms of bloodline. The indigenous people have 16 other mother tongues of their own. They have their own tribal languages. However, only about 2.5% of the population remains now. Now, Taiwan is a place very sensitive to disasters like earthquakes and typhoons. My memory is April 2024. During that one month of April, there were 100 earthquakes and aftershocks.

Oh, a country with many earthquakes. A country where it is routine. At first, when an earthquake came, I was flustered, so what? Oh, I ran out. And from then on, the important thing is to put your passport and everything in one bag, and when an earthquake happens, what? You run out, but since I kept running out, only I was going out. The kids were sleeping, and my wife was there, so it was very embarrassing and sorry, so now I have adjusted, so I don't get nervous about most earthquakes. It's an island country very sensitive to earthquakes and typhoons. So, people believe in the Earth God, and they believe in the Sea God, so they have very many folk religions. Also, they like money, right? They believe in the God of Wealth. So, there are very many gods in this land. If there is a second problem with Taiwan missions, there is an imbalance in the population of the Taiwan Seventh-day Adventist Church. Taiwan's population is close to 24 million. However, indigenous people are less than 3%. But within the Adventist Church, 70% are indigenous people.

So, some people say, 'Ah, Taiwan is a wealthy country, what help is needed?' The country is wealthy, but most of the churches are what the Indians in Navajo have if you compare it to the US. I work at the mission office, and except for the Han Chinese treasurer and the youth director who is a foreigner, everyone from the mission president is an indigenous person. Third, city mission. There are 111 churches and meeting places, and 72 of them are where? In the mountains. 94% or more of the population is in the city, but 70% of the churches are in indigenous villages in the mountains. So, there are about 30 churches in the city, and there are about 20 places in the real big cities, and half of them are churches pioneered by PMM missionaries like me, pastors who came from Korea. Fourth, it's a problem for Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and perhaps the whole world. It's the problem of super-aging, aging, and low birth rate. When I finish preaching at a local church, a white-haired elder comes to find me. He seems to be 80, and the elder says to me, 'Pastor, can we also do college student ministry?'

Oh, our sons, our grandchildren are all not in the church. What should we do? When I preached, I saw what? White-haired people sitting there. That is the problem in the church now. Fifth, the biggest reason I started college student ministry is that there is one Taiwan Sahmyook University. It's called TAC, Taiwan Adventist College, in Chinese, Taiwan Sahmyook Christian College, it's the same Sahmyook. But the problem here is that they couldn't get accreditation from the Ministry of Education. Even if you graduate for 4 years, you are a high school graduate. Originally, it was in Taipei, but as it moved to this countryside in 1970, the number of students plummeted, so now there are about 30 students and 60 faculty and staff. The school is in a situation where it has to fail. So, because of these problems, perhaps the Northern Asia-Pacific Division sent the most missionaries to this small island country, Taiwan, and currently, 11 of our PMM pastors and three student missionaries are doing missions together in Taiwan.

Ah, I, I'm sorry. What I did when I first went was learn Chinese for 10 months. I learned Chinese for 10 months, but what can you do if you learn Chinese for 10 months? Ni hao ma. Yes. I learned Chinese, but after learning for 10 months, I think I'm a little better than a kindergarten student. But I have to preach every week. Originally, local churches in Taiwan don't have many meetings except on the Sabbath, but I followed the model of the Korean church and opened Tuesday and Friday services. A person with poor Chinese is preaching three times. Nonsensical Chinese. So, when I was praying, when I first went to the church, there were 15 people, my family of five, five indigenous people, five depression patients. On the Sabbath, we worked hard to make lunch and served a meal, and at 1 o'clock, they all left without saying anything. So, when I first went to that church, I thought, 'What should I do about this?' At the end of praying while prostrating before God, I started to think about what I could do well. My Chinese is poor, but what am I good at? I am good at Korean. So, I took Korean flyers and started going out in front of the university and handing them out. At first, I was embarrassed, so I wore sunglasses and went out, and I did it for about 4 weeks, but the school security guard was annoyed, so he called the police. I was caught by the police, and they said I shouldn't hand out things like this in front of the university. But for 4 weeks like that

After handing them out, students started coming into the church and learning Korean. About 25 people started learning, and 10 young office workers and 15 college students came in. So, what did I do with those people? I taught Korean. For 4 days a week, I taught beginner class, and my wife taught advanced class. And since it's after work and school time, if you look next to me, my second child, who is a middle school student now, is eating very deliciously, right? This is the time this child likes the most, and if there is time, my wife cooks, or we order food and provide dinner to them while teaching Korean for free. Since we met 4 days a week like that, students gradually started to gather, and those young people naturally became what? Church youth. Among them, a college student who was baptized was baptized after a year and a half. As soon as this young person was baptized by me, what did they say? 'Pastor, what can I help you with?'

As if I had been waiting, what did I say? 'I was caught by the police while handing out flyers in front of your school a year ago, is there any way we can do missions at school? Wait a minute.' And this friend did what? They searched for people interested in Korean at school on the internet. And they made a club. At first, 20 people were interested in the club. So, when I went in, over 80 people met there. So, from 2018, we started opening the biggest club at school, and while doing the club, I invited the children who were interested to lunch. There are about 16,000 students at school. There are 16,000 students at the engineering school, but if there is a special point about the school, there is no cafeteria. I wondered where they go at lunchtime, and if you cross the main gate, it's a food alley. There is a night market. So, looking at the children, lining up for 30 minutes at lunchtime was basic. Did you line up for 30 minutes today? These friends, lining up for 30 minutes is basic. So, at the end of praying, how can I meet these friends and spread Jesus? So, I opened a lunch prayer group. I prepared the meal, and give me 10 minutes with them. For 10 minutes, I spread the word of Jesus, then sang, and then ate together.

Eating food like this and doing this, what? They become disarmed. They become close. These friends all started coming to the church. So, on campus, we have evangelistic meetings for 4 weeks, three times a week, after finishing midterms. We have small group evangelistic meetings. So, leading from the Taiwan University of Science and Technology to our lunch prayer, and then what? To the Baton Church where I am, is the roadmap of our simple campus ministry currently. Ah, at first, when we opened the club and did it, the club executives came to find me. 'Teacher, Korean is good, but what else is good? We also like Korean food. I want to learn Korean cooking, can I learn Korean cooking?' I said what? 'Try to find a place where you can cook once.' The school responded. 'You cannot use fire at school.' So, what happened? 'Then that's good. Come to our church.' So, it takes about 20 minutes by bus, but students started coming to our church once a month. So, they learn cooking classes at church, and even if we make 70 servings of pancakes with a very large basin, it sells out quickly.

Students like this so much. At first, the fact that I was Korean was not that much of a merit, but after I did the ministry and 2 years passed, BTS became the culture, what? Ah, the president, the culture president. So, I became a person who came from the country of BTS, and from then on, what? I was able to do missions more easily. So, currently, among these 16,000 students, there are 160 students in our Korean club. So, these 160 students are friends I meet at least twice a week, and these friends are my most potential seekers. If I explain briefly, yes, what happened at the university while doing this mission? Friends who were interested in Korean and were invited to my lunch prayer and came, learned Korean with children's Bible stories on Friday evenings. But among them, twin sisters were baptized. First, the second one, who was a little more extroverted, was baptized, and 7 months later, the older sister, who was a little introverted, was baptized. And one young person, a young person named Tsui,

2 years and 2 months after being baptized, her mother reformed from the Presbyterian Church. 'My daughter and my daughter, who didn't go to church well even when I usually told them to go to church, I was curious because it was fascinating that they went to church, so I came to find out if it was a strange church,' and after that, she kept coming to church and is now serving diligently at church. This young person named Tsui, because of Tsui, her mother was also baptized, but when Tsui posted pictures of herself active in church on Instagram, her friends became interested and curious about this church. And our friends attended the evangelistic meeting, and these two friends were baptized. Because of one Tsui, how many people? Tsui, mother, and four people. A total of four people. But it doesn't end here, and next, Tsui's aunt came to church and was baptized. There are five people now. But last November, I held a youth conference for the first time in the youth department. I held a youth conference in the Taiwan Mission, and Tsui's nieces, who are not much different in age, attended. And two nieces were baptized at that youth conference. One person believed in Jesus, and how many people? Seven people were baptized.

Now, this Tsui has been serving as a missionary at the university since 2023, and from this year, she started studying theology. So, she is preparing to be a Taiwanese pastor. Ah, there are several things inside the university, but when I opened the university club door, it is the first student who returned. This friend named Nai-jen started learning consonants and vowels from me, and now she is working as a Korean translation expert, and after this friend was baptized, she invited her friends. And we have a Korean camp every summer, and two young people were baptized at the camp. But the young person in the middle here, now that they have graduated, although they are Taiwanese, they are currently studying theology at Sahmyook University Graduate School of Theology in Korean, and they are scheduled to graduate next February and do ministry in Taiwan. Currently, they are practicing as an educational evangelist at the Muk-dong First Church. God makes things I didn't think of possible like this.

As the young people grew, we organized a church for the first time among PMM missionary churches. College students graduated from college, and now they got jobs. They start doing what? They start paying tithes. As tithes accumulated in the church, now the church was organized. The reason we have a retreat every summer like this is because, as you saw earlier, we have a retreat like this because we might be able to meet someone like my wife again. Currently, we are doing missions targeting 150,000 students at 13 universities. With the mission of one church, one university, 13 churches are entering 13 universities, and although we started with our small church, it has now become a nationwide movement. I was invited to the division once because of this work and shared college student ministry, because this was not started by the mission office or a higher organization, but started because a small church needed it. So, now, at least four people are being baptized steadily every year. Currently, 13 churches are doing ministry at 13 universities, so I hope our congregation will pray a lot. We were a country that sent missionaries to Taiwan, but we have a dream. Our dream is not to be a country that receives missionaries, but now to be a country that sends them, that is my

Dream. This Taiwan, which was a wasteland of the gospel and the most troublesome place in the Northern Asia-Pacific Division, is now our dream to become a promising place for the gospel through this college student ministry. Ending here, if I share the word, I want you to break down this wall in your and my hearts. Today, if the wall in your and my hearts breaks down, what can be spread? The gospel can be spread. It is not that there is no power of the gospel, but because we who have to testify are not yet prepared. I hope that God's gospel is not hidden in our hearts and not spread, but that the Holy Spirit opens our hearts and we lay down our stubbornness and prejudice so that the door of the gospel can be opened. And when prejudice is broken, I am convinced that many churches in this American region will also spread the gospel because of you. So, there is a purpose for which I came to Taiwan. The elder who prayed today is my friend's father. 'Pastor Kwon, don't just think about preaching here, do business. Do business.'

So, I came to do God's business. So, now, our church, which does college student ministry, has a dream, and that is to build a college student mission center. So, we are developing mission materials in Chinese for college students in Taiwan, translating them, training college student campus missionaries, and we are organizing a scholarship foundation like supporting two theology students with scholarships and supporting students every year. And we are organizing a volunteer group for the local community, and Taiwan will spread the gospel in Chinese toward the continent. I believe that if the continent is opened, where is next? North Korea. So, we are expecting the gospel to be spread to the ends of the earth through these college students in Taiwan. I hope you and all of you will be for this work. Ending, let's read the word of Zechariah 8:23 together. The Lord of hosts, start. 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: 'In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.''

When you and I lay down prejudice and preconception in our hearts today, the gospel, the door of the gospel will be opened. And if the gospel is spread, because of the power of that gospel, more people around us can be saved. I hope that this word of Zechariah 8:23 will be experienced and fulfilled in your and my lives. Let's pray together. Father God, thank you. Thank you for leading us from Taiwan, the outskirts of the gospel, to this Western campsite and giving us the opportunity to share the mission news together here. Thank you for how God worked in this outskirts of the gospel, making fruit come out of the wasteland, and making there be greater expectation and hope through that fruit. Lord, we want to lay down the wall and the things that are in our hearts today before the Lord. May our Holy Spirit work to break down the wall in our hearts so that the door of the gospel can be opened, and because of us, the gospel can now be spread, and more people around us can believe in Jesus and be saved.

Please bless the churches and families served by all those who attended this place today, and through the power of the Holy Spirit who is in our hearts, may we repent and change so that the gospel does not stay among us, but that the gospel can be spread. We pray in the name of Jesus, who loved us so much and let us meet together at this time. Amen. Thank you. Yes. Amen.