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Story #3

New Birth as a Pastor, “I will live just as God said”

BY Yunji Seo
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011

An appointment service and the celebration of a licensed local pastor were held Friday night by the United Methodist Church at the Hope UMC in Duluth with 50 visitors. David (Hyung Doo) Park, who has served as a deacon at the Grace Korean United Methodist Church with about 30 Korean followers, has been appointed as a local licensed pastor by the bishop, Sally Dyck.

Eight Koreans including David Park and his wife established in 2000 Grace Korean UMC in Duluth sharing the building with Hope UMC. “It was difficult to maintain this Christian community until today because of the unique character of our church. Most of our followers of church are college students. We have to say good bye to them because they generally go back to Korea after graduate or transfer to the other schools,” Pastor Park said. Also, he added the reason why he decided to become a pastor, “We couldn’t find any pastor who can give us a sermon every Sunday for the Korean Christian society of Lake Superior region from the year before last. That’s why I decided to take a course to become a pastor. It was not an easy decision but I tried to seek answer of God for this situation through praying.” Before he achieved the license, he gave a sermon in service after being educated by his mentorial Minister by email or phone and studying by himself. He took a one-year course to become a local licensed pastor and achieved a license in September, 2011. David Park and his family, who emigrated from South Korea to the US in 1996, have withstood about 6 hours journey including returning from Mora to Duluth for the service every Sunday. One of visitors to the appointment service, his mentorial Minister Son said, “God allows him to become a pastor after being touched with his deep devotion into God and the church. Not only I but also other family of Grace Korean church believe that he is well qualified to be a pastor.”

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A great star in the prosecutors’ world has fallen

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InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

People Living with People and God in Love

byYunji Seo

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship offers interesting activities and programs variously to help in connecting people to people and to God with love as they learn from God.  

IVCF was created more than 6 years ago at the University of Wisconsin Superior as a part of International Christian Fellowship with an idea which is trying to create Christian communities on campus. “The vision statement of IVCF at UWS is to see students and faculties transformed and renewed on campus and world changers developed,” Samantha Licht, a leader of IVCF added. They have 3 small groups with about 20 members. About 4 or 5 people of each group have gathered together to study the Bible once a week with their available time, from Monday to Wednesday. They have some fun activities and additional events in the large regular group meeting every other week on Thursday. They also have various events; Red Cup Campaign is to make people do conversation about life, God or everything they want to talk about by writing a word or comment on the sticker paper. They usually have retreats 3 times a year, right after beginning of every semester and during winter vacation. 9 members of UWS went to retreat and had a fun time with about 30 students from the other colleges, UMD and St. Scholastica on October 1. A UWS freshman, Deborah Yam, said, “It was difficult for me to adjust to a new area as an international student, but I was really satisfied with the retreat which lets me be closer to God and make new friends from other colleges. Every year right before Easter, they serve programs, such as watching movies and Easter egg hunts during Jesus week in order to help people hear to the good news about Jesus.

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