Korean East Coast Camp Meeting 2019

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Korean East Coast Camp Meeting

Elizabeth Chung

Mission Possible

Dearest Father in heaven, thank you so much for this opportunity to talk together and see all the good things that you have available for us and opportunities to answer your call.

And I just pray that during this session that you will put words to speak, and that your Holy Spirit will be amongst us.

So God's call is something that I've actually thought about since I was 4 years old.

I know that's not a very normal thought for a four-year-old.

But by that time, I had learned how to read chapter books.

And so my mom thought it was a great idea to get me to start reading LNG white books.

And so she provided me messages to young people, child guidance, Adventist home, and said, here, you can read these.

And at that time, I was very religious, but I wouldn't say I had a very strong or good concept of God.

I had thought of God as my father in heaven.

And to me, that was kind of a scary thought at times.

I remember having nightmares of the second coming, actually.

And I would wake up, and especially in the middle of the night, and think that I was all by myself and that my whole family had gone to heaven without me.

And it was the worst feeling in the world.

And so I'd walk around the house and make sure everyone was still there.

But that was kind of when I started thinking, OK, what does God want me to do?

As a Korean American immigrant family, that was us in our humbucks.

I think we had a very, I think something that we can all have a lot of resonance with in how I was raised.

So my dad, actually my mom immigrated first.

She came to Atlanta, Georgia in I think 1970.

Or no, yeah, 1970 I think was the year she came.

And so at that time, America was recruiting nurses like crazy.

They provided a place, like a job for her to have.

And there, they provided her room and board.

And so she stayed there, worked for free, and basically they gave her money.

And she sent all of it, except for I think she kept maybe a little bit to have piano lessons, because she always wanted piano lessons.

And the rest of it she sent back to her family in Korea.

And Her goal at that time was to try to save her family from poverty.

After the Korean War, she's the second daughter, or second out of 6 children, and they were very poor.

And then my dad's family was even poorer, and at that point they had started dating.

They actually met when my mom was a senior in high school at Samyuk, and My dad was a freshman in college, and he was supposed to tutor her.

And yeah, as you can imagine, the tutoring sessions must have been very interesting.

Actually, there was a group of girls that my mom was with, and they were her friends.

And they were the go-getters in class and they were like, oh, we should get tutoring from this guy.

And so they went and asked him to be their tutor and he said, oh, okay.

And then he just kept spending more time tutoring my mom.

And so eventually he told them, I'm sorry, I'm interested in her, so I cannot tutor all of you guys.

And so that's how their relationship started.

And so at that time, they were both dreaming and keeping in touch.

But yeah, at that time, they were dreaming about 3 things.

They wanted to save their families, so bring both of their families over.

And as I mentioned earlier, my mom was second out of 6.

And my dad's family situation was even poorer than my mom's.

I don't think they even all lived together, because they just couldn't afford to.

And some of the boys in the family, it was staggered.

The other 1 could go to school, the other 1 would work, so on and so forth.

So it wasn't the best situation poverty-wise.

And then the third thing that was really important for them was to figure out how to do missions for God in coming to the United States.

And after about 5 years here, I think it might have been about 2 years, But at 1975, she ended up getting married to my dad because the pastor here told her, it's time, you need to go get Mr.

And so he sent her back to Korea and she did a wedding and came back with him.

And they immediately started, you know, doing the whole American Dream thing, working 2 or 3 jobs at once, trying to do school at the same time.

And at that time, my dad had done 1 year of college, army duty, and then basically come over.

And he had been a theology major at that time.

I think the original Atlanta church was actually helped by my parents.

And now I think it's like 5 or 6 churches, something like that.

But yeah, way back then, they were all trying to really form church and try to get their families situated.

I wasn't born yet, because they thought at that time that the world was going to end soon.

So they were like, maybe we shouldn't have children.

But then after about 5 years of being married, my mom was like, I guess everybody kept whispering around her.

And she was thinking, Oh no, they think I'm infertile.

And so they were, I don't know if you guys know about birth control methods, but they were doing the rhythm method.

And they ended up having kids 18 months apart, each 1 of us.

Some verses that have actually really, I guess, kind of formed my mindset about calling is, of course, the Great Commission.

You know, we all know this verse, Matthew 28, 19 to 20.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.

And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age.

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