Korea WMU Prayer Requests

The House of Love, a retirement home for pastors and their wives, and for female missionaries, has been completed. Korea WMU will have a dedication and thanksgiving worship service in March.  Please pray for the needed finances for this ministry and for KBWMU as they choose the right person to stay at the facility.

Continue to pray for North Korea.  Pray for significant leaders to develop among the North Korean elite who are compassionate and will truly care for the people.  Pray for reforms and openness in the North Korean government.  Pray for relationships between North and South Korea.  Pray for reunification and for opportunities between the countries.

Pray for Sook Jae Lee, executive director, Korea WMU, who will travel to Kentucky in April for the Kentucky WMU Annual Meeting.  Miss Lee is also the president of the Asian Baptist Women’s Union.  Pray for her leadership and safety in travel.  Pray for the KBWMU staff and their many responsibilities as they encourage missions involvement and support among Korean Baptist churches.

 

Brazil Mission Trip Opportunity

Kentucky WMU has been blessed to send teams to Brazil for several years.  Members of our last team, Ernie and Barbara Cash, are heading up a team for this summer.  The trip will include working with children at Beautiful Waters Baptist Church and door-to-door evangelism.  Plans are for Vacation Bible School each morning and visitation in the afternoons. 

Approximate cost of the trip is $3,000 and will take place in early July.  (Due to changes in the school calendar in Brazil, the final dates will be set soon.)  The cost covers airfare and most in-country expenses.

Barbara has already planned out the VBS and has crafts ready.  But at least four more volunteers are needed.  If you are interested, please contact Ernie or Barbara at 502-241-4679 or by email: eacash@insightbb.com.

 

2010 Kentucky WMU Regional Retreats

The 2010 Kentucky WMU Regional Retreats will focus on the theme “Active Compassion.”  Gayla Parker, Executive Director of Maryland-Delaware WMU, will lead us to examine the compassion of Jesus and how we can actively express compassion to make a difference. 

Retreats are scheduled in two locations:
January 29-30, 2010 – Laurel Lake Baptist Camp, Corbin
March 12-13, 2010 – Camp Schafer, Hawesville

Cost per person at either location is $55.00.  This includes lodging, three meals, and study materials.  (Bring your own bedding and towels. Bunk beds.)

The registration deadline for Laurel Lake is January 22 and March 5 for Camp Schafer.

For more information, and a registration form, go to http://www.kywmu.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=36717&PID=405463.

 

December Korea WMU Prayer Requests

Kentucky WMU began a partnership with Korea Baptist WMU in 2006.  We have hosted guests from Korea and sent teams to Korea to attend the KBWMU Annual Meeting and lead English camps.  Above all, we have prayed KBWMU and for missions in both South and North Korea.

Guests from Korea will be with us for the Kentucky WMU Annual Meeting, April 9-10, 2010 at Westport Road Baptist Church.  Sook Jae Lee, executive director of KBWMU and president of the Asian Baptist Women’s Union, will speak in our Friday evening session.

Soonshil Back, Associate Executive Director of Korea WMU, provided the following prayer requests.

Love of House
Praise the Lord! Our president of the House of Love Committee, Kyung Ae Woo, has healed well after her surgery. She got out of hospital and is now so much better. Our House of Love is almost completed without any accidents during contruction. God our Father has provided safety and what we needed every moment. We are still in need of finances but we also trust he will fill our need. We are now finishing the procedures and regulations governing  residents who will stay at  House of Love. Please pray for God’s wisdom and His helpers while we are preparing to open the House of Love. 

Missions Education
This semester is nearly finished. Two more weeks! Thank God that He gave me a great opportunity to learn more about His heart and what we need for His Kingdom. Pray that students do not forget Father’s heart for the lost and keep living a missional life even after class.

North Korea
Please keep praying for those who live in North Korea. Winter has started. People in NK are still in need of food and especially of JESUS. Pray for the food and freedom needed in North Korea. Pray that the children in North Korea may grow healthy with enough food. Pray for President Kim Jung Il and other political leaders to make right decisions for world peace and for the sake of people in Korea.

 

Korea Prayer Requests

Kentucky WMU began a partnership with Korea Baptist WMU in 2003.  Please join us in prayer for the following requests. from KBWMU.

House of Love
Thanks to God’s grace, the House of Love (retirement home for pastors and missionaries being built by Korea Baptist WMU) is almost finished. KBWMU is expecting completion by the middle of November. They write: “We have experienced how God provides what we need moment by moment. We are still depending on Him because He is the ONLY one we can trust and fill our need with his abundant grace. Praise Him for how generous and considerate He is.”

Please pray for  Kyung Ae Woo, president of the House of Love Committee. A few weeks ago she fell and she is still in hospital after surgery. She is very concerned about completion of the House of Love in her absence. Pray that God would heal Kyung Ae Woo completely as soon as possible without any after effect.

Please pray that God would fill KBWMU abundantly with what is needed financially and provide safety for all workers until completion of the House of Love.

Pray that God will guide KBWMU as they we develop the House of Love guidelines and regulations for residents

Missions Education
Soonshil Back, who attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville and worked with Kentucky WMU for several months, has been named Associate Executive Director for KBWMU. Soonshil is also teaching missions education at Daejeon seminary. It is now in the middle  of semester. She writes, “At first time I was a little nervous but now I am comfortable to be in front of the students. I am the one who learned most in this semester because I studied most among them. I now am sure that teaching is the best way to learn.”  Soonshil asks that Kentucky WMU pray “That students in missions education class, including me, would know more deeply the heart of God the Father for the lost, and embrace this with their heart, and grow with missional lifestyle.”

Please pray for Soonshil and her responsibilities with KBWMU.  Pray for all of the KBWMU staff, including their executive director Sook Jae Lee, who also serves as President of the Asian Baptist Women’s Union.

KBWMU  has sponsored missions camps for children for a number of years and wrote us that “We have decided to cancel our missions camp this coming January because of swine influenza. We are planning this period time to evaluate the last camps for ten years and to develop it for the future.”  Please pray for KBWMU staff and leaders as they evaluate and make plans for the future.

North Korea
Winter is coming. People in NK are still in need of food. Proper discussions and decisions for nuclear experimental issues are needed.

Pray for the food and freedom needed in North Korea.
Pray that the children in North Korea may grow healthy with enough food.
Pray for President Kim Jung Il and other political leaders to make right decisions for world peace and for the sake of people in Korea.

 

GA JAM

Our next GA JAM is Saturday, November 14, 2009 at Campbellsville Baptist Church in Campbellsville, KY.  Girls in Action members, guests, and leaders are invited to meet international and North American missionaries, participate in a Live Action project, explore other cultures during Christmas Around the World, and enjoy music and missions activities. 

The event will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Eastern time) and the cost is $10 per person.  Pre-registration is required.  (So we can have lunch and materials for you!)   Register by Monday, November 9.  

Learn more and download a registration form on the GA JAM page.  To register by phone, contact Kentucky WMU at 866-489-3534.  Credit card required for phone registrations.

 

House of Love Update from Korea WMU

House of Love is a retirement home for pastors and their wives and female missionaries being built by Korea WMU.  We received the following update and request for prayer from KBWMU:

Praise God that He has helped KBWMU to keep building the House of Love without any accidents.

Thank God that KBWMU was able to introduce the House of Love project and to promote it at the Korea Baptist convention meeting on September 22.

KBWMU asks that you pray that God would inspire many pastors and their wives and church members to help accomplish this project.

Building construction is expected to be finished at the end of October.

KBWMU writes: Pray that God will provide what is needed. We trust His timing and His way. Please be with us in prayer.

 

Korea Prayer Requests – September 2009

KBWMU had their 55^th  Annual Meeting August 17-18, 2009. New officers were elected and have started to work. Pray that they would be filled with God’s Spirit and His wisdom and power to accomplish well the task God has given for the coming year.

Missions Education: The Christian education department at DaeJeon Baptist Theological Seminary will open a class for missions education this semester. The Missions education class is elective, has been taught irregularly, and the last one was in 2005. KBWMU has encouraged the Seminary to offer this class again and wants to let students know what missions education is and how much it is needed. Through the class, KBWMU also wants to find good personnel resources for their missions camp which is held every January. Soonsil Back, who attended Southern Seminary in Louisville and interned with Kentucky WMU, will be teaching the class this semester.

Please pray for missions education in Korea:

• For students to clearly understand why missions education is needed
• That students would be committed to missional lifestyle through this course
• That many students would be involved in KBWMU missions camp as volunteer teachers the next January
• That God will give Soonsil His wisdom and ability to teach with His heart.

House of Love: We are dreaming that retired pastors, pastors’ wives, and retired female missionaries can spend the rest of their life in this House of Love filled with God’s love and grace. Construction commenced on May 11 with putting our trust in God. The building is going up day by day but we are still in great financial need.

Please pray for the House of Love:

• For the completion of the building of the House of Love within planned period of time, by Sept. 2009.
• For the workers’ safety, their diligence, and doing their best when they work.
  That fund raising would go well according to God’s grace. Pray that the financial needs will be filled for completing the work.
• That many people who have heard of this construction project will gladly open their hearts and join in giving for the House of Love.
• That contributors and those who have made pledges would be blessed abundantly, that they may be able to give more during the rest of their life for God’s glory, and that all their needs would be filled by God’s provision.

North Korea: Please keep praying for North Korea.

• Pray for the human rights of North Koreans, that they may be free from oppression and poverty.
• Pray for the food and freedom needed in N. Korea.
• Pray that the children in N. Korea may grow healthy with enough food.
• Pray for President Kim Jung Il and other political leaders to make right decisions for world peace and for the sake of people in Korea.

 

Korea WMU Prayer Requests

For about 20 years Korea Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union (KBWMU) has planned and prepared for a special house called “House of Love” for retired Baptist ministers who worked in remote area throughout their entire life for the gospel. Even though we had planned this earlier, we could not afford it. When the Lord said to us recently, “Now is the time to set it up,” we obeyed.  Construction finally commenced on May 11 with putting our trust in God. We are dreaming that retired pastors, pastors’ wives, and retired female missionaries can spend the rest of their life in this House of Love filled with God’s love and grace.

 Please pray:
- For the completion of the building of the House of Love within planned period of time, by Sept. 2009.
- That our builder, Hee-Won Engineering, will construct the building beautifully, and that the workers will be filled with Spirit and have wisdom like Bezalel and Oholiab when they constructed  the sanctuary (Exodus 35:30 – 39:31).
- For the workers’ safety, their diligence, and doing their best when they work.
- That fund raising would go well according to God’s grace. Pray that the financial needs will be filled for completing the work.
- That many people who have heard of this constrution project will gladly open their hearts and join in giving for the House of Love.
- That contributors and those who have made pledges would be blessed abundantly, that they may be able to give more during the rest of their life for God’s glory, and that all their needs would be filled by God’s provision.
- That more contributors would get involved with this beautiful project.

 Please keep praying for North Korea.
▪ Pray for the human rights of North Koreans, that they may be free from  oppression and poverty.
▪ Pray for the food and freedom needed in N. Korea.
▪ Pray that the children in N. Korea may grow healthy with enough food.
▪ Pray for President Kim Jung Il and other political leaders that they will make right decisions  for world peace and for the sake of people around Korea.

 

Prayer Requests for Korea from a Korean Sister

The following prayer requests come to us from a Sister in Christ in South Korea. 

 

South Korea is now experiencing very difficult situations in many areas like politics, society and the issue of nuclear weapons in North Korea. In recent years suicide has been spreading like an epidemic throughout South Korea. The suicides of of well-known figures such as TV stars and even the former president has negative impact on those who are suffering from the same temptation. North Korea is still threating the world as well as Korea and other neighboring countries with deadly weapons. We surely need many prayers.

 

Thank you for your prayers. God will listen as He promised.

 “I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.”  (Matthew 18:18~20)

 

Please pray for

- President Lee and South Korean politicians that they may have right understanding on this issue of nuclear weapons in North Korea and God’s wisdom to deal with this wisely.

- The spirit of suicide to leave from this land.

- Those who are suffering from temptation of suicide that they may overcome it and live life with strength and courage.

- The human rights of North Koreans that they may be free from unjust oppression and severe poverty.

- The food and freedom that North Koreans desperately need that they may live with the dignity of man God gave.

- The kids in North Korea to be provided enough food that they may grow soundly with balanced nutrituion.

- For President Kim Jong Il, leader of North Korea, and North Korean politicians that they may make right decisions for world peace and for people in Korea and those around it.