We were privileged and delighted to have three Korean women from Seoul at a joint Women For Missions evening at our church in Garrabost on Monday 8th October 2007. Mrs Kim Sook Hee, Mrs You Myeung Ja and Mrs Kim Hyun Sook were part of a group of six who were visiting the island, the others being Rev Kim JaeO (husband of Mrs Kim Hyun Sook), Rev Shu and of Mrs You Myeung Ja and Rev Kim YoungBok. The ministers belong to the Kyoungki Presbytery in Seoul with whom the Free Church Western Isles Presbytery has a formal relationship. They attended the meeting of the Western Isles Presbytery (pictured right) on Tuesday 9th as delegates from their home Presbytery.
Rev Shu preached at our evening service in Garrabost on Sunday evening, 7th October, giving a powerful and challenging message to us from Judges chapter 2. He referred to his sadness at seeing in Scotland the same as what had happened in Israel in the generations after Joshua's leadership, a people "who did not know the Lord." He appealed passionately for us to serve the Lord in the gospel and at the same time to pray that God would send blessing so as to make himself known in our land. To hear his message please click on link below the photo opposite of the three Korean ministers in the Garrabost pulpit. Left to right they are Rev Kim YoungBok, Rev Kim JaeO and Rev Shu Changwon. Rev Kim JaeO led the congregation in prayer in his native Korean, an experience which to us as a congregation was one of not knowing the words yet knowing a wonderful presence of the Lord through them!
A publiuc meeting was held in Stornoway at the same time as the WFM meeting at Garrabost and afterwards some of those who attended the Stornoway meeting came to Garrabost for refreshments and fellowship.
A publiuc meeting was held in Stornoway at the same time as the WFM meeting at Garrabost and afterwards some of those who attended the Stornoway meeting came to Garrabost for refreshments and fellowship.
At the WFM meeting in Garrabost Mrs Donna Maciver, the minister's wife,
introduced the Korean ladies and gave an illustrated account of her own visit to
Korea in April 2007 along with her husband, their son Alasdair, Rev Calum Macleod
and his wife Catherine. Mrs Kim Hyun Sook then led the ladies in prayer.
At the fellowship afterwards Rev Kim JaO and Rev Shu Changwon answered some
questions from the large audience who had come to the fellowship. Rev Kim told us how important families were in the church in Korea and how his own congregation caters for families both in the teaching and in the practical activities of the congregation. Rev Shu expanded on this by referring to his own congregation, prompting the minister Rev James Maciver to say that he was the only man he knew of who would answer a question with a sermon!
After enjoying a wonderful spread of home baking arranged by the ladies of the Knock congregation, we experienced one of the highlights of the evening which was when the group of Koreans sang two songs of praise, which you can listen to by clicking on the link below the of their group on the left.
introduced the Korean ladies and gave an illustrated account of her own visit to
Korea in April 2007 along with her husband, their son Alasdair, Rev Calum Macleod
and his wife Catherine. Mrs Kim Hyun Sook then led the ladies in prayer.
At the fellowship afterwards Rev Kim JaO and Rev Shu Changwon answered some
questions from the large audience who had come to the fellowship. Rev Kim told us how important families were in the church in Korea and how his own congregation caters for families both in the teaching and in the practical activities of the congregation. Rev Shu expanded on this by referring to his own congregation, prompting the minister Rev James Maciver to say that he was the only man he knew of who would answer a question with a sermon!
After enjoying a wonderful spread of home baking arranged by the ladies of the Knock congregation, we experienced one of the highlights of the evening which was when the group of Koreans sang two songs of praise, which you can listen to by clicking on the link below the of their group on the left.
