Dear Global Christian Movement Prayer Partners:
Greetings to you, in the beautiful name of our LORD Jesus Christ!
July 29, 2023, we started a new virtual bi-weekly mission seminar through the Google MEET with our Korean International Ministries (KIM Mission) prayer partners who are mostly the graduates from one of the 59 Perspectives on the World Christian Movement seminars for over 22 years, including my video seminar on the Youtube.com. Each bi-weekly seminar begins at 0800am CST on Saturday morning (10pm Seoul, Korea time) with 10-20 participants from different mission fields from all around the world such as the USA, Korea, Latin America, Central Asia, and West Africa. We are so thankful to the Lord for the technologies that brought us together on the same screen at the same time, so that we can share the word of God, salvation/mission testimonies and intercessory prayer requests.
Last Saturday, we gathered together for the 6th MEET Virtual Seminar with 17 attendants. The second presenter was Pastor CH, a Missionary who has been working near the border between China and North Korea for over 20 years and recently went there after the pandemic, and temporarily visiting S. Korea. He testified even more powerful and tearful stories about what our Lord Jesus is doing in China and N. Korea, especially among the thousands of the North Korean defectors/refugees in China for whom Rev. CH has been providing the “Both Hands of Gospel” – the Gospel and their needs. We had never met Rev. CH before in person, face to face until last Saturday on the screen, because he had been ministering very secretly. Even our communication through emails were always very limited mostly to secret codes of languages.
Missionary CH was actually connected with me, Barnabas, 5-6 years ago as he was looking for my name throughout the internet world (KIM Mission has been supporting him with a small fund) requested by one of his disciples in China, a Korean-Chinese underground church Pastor who testifies that “Rev. K H Kim (Barnabas’s Korean Name) introduced me to Jesus Christ my LORD while I was on an faraway ocean fishing ship in the harbor of Muscat, Oman Sultanate!” Yes, it was me who shared the Gospel with him, Korean Chinese Pastor G, and another seafarer with him as the missionary ship MV Doulos on which I was serving as a staff. It’s late 1998 and the missionary ship berthed there less than a week doing nothing because of the strict law against Christianity of the Islamic Sultanate and the Korean faraway ocean fishing on which Pastor G (Mr. G then who joined the ship from China after quitting his Chinese high school teacher’s job). I met him a couple times, inviting him on board for the mealtimes as well as visiting his ship, having good fellowship and conversation on the Bible and Gospel.
Mr. G and I wrote letters to each other several times after he went back to his hometown in northeast China where over one and a half million Korean Chinese population were living close to the border with N. Korea. The Chinese Koreans at that time were still poor, so I sent the American Express Traveler’s Check a couple times to support Mr. G and his extended family. However, I did not know that Mr. G became a Pastor later because I joined the US Army Chaplaincy in 2008, and I had to stop communicating with all my friends and missionaries in China for security reasons but kept praying for them and for the Gospel to be spread into China and N. Korea. According to Missionary CH, Pastor G has been serving a Korean Chinese underground church near the border, ministering mostly for the defectors/refugees from N. Korea, particularly females who were victimized by human trafficking (thousands of N. Korean females were sold to Chinese farmers at low cost as sex/laboring slaves between late 1990s through even these days).
Many of the North Korean female slaves gave birth to Chinese children, and many of their children became unregistered/illegal due to the Chinese One-Child Policy that ended in 2016). Thousands of the N. Korean ladies defected to South Korea for decades, the unregistered children were left behind. We call them “Defector Orphans.” Praise God who is the living God, a Missionary God, and the Father of the fatherless who anointed Pastor G so that he experienced miraculous spiritual gifts and amazing visions through which the Holy Spirit used him to save His people, showing him where the N. Korean ladies were hidden, even scattered in the deep mountains or remote country farms. Missionary Rev. CH witnessed how our Lord is still using Pastor G to help and hide the secret Missionaries from Korea such as Rev. CH from the constant watch of the Chinese Security Police.
All the virtual mission seminar participants on that day lost their words, shed tears, and repented our lack of knowledge and limited strength. We are now praying more passionately for the missionaries, local Korean Chinese church leaders, the defectors, and the defector orphans who are still waiting for rescue and eventually the ways and means to go to S. Korea to reunite with their parents (many of S. Korean churches and believers also have been helping them to be prepared with legal documents, passports as well as financial needs for the long journey to Korea). We sensed immediately after last Saturday’s seminar that our Lord Jesus connected us to the missionaries with some great plan and purpose – He wants us to do something. Please continue to pray for these special prayer requests of the special ministers and people who are struggling under very special circumstances. We wanted to let those who also have been praying for and supporting the missions for North Korea, N. Korean Christians, and churches know this too and join our prayers!
Praise the Lord and thank you very much!
Faithfully,
Barnabas and Korean International Ministries
www.KIMMission.org