The Church

Mood: worshipful
Stage notes: listening to a Russian man share his testimony (he speaks Russian, Polish, and English and is being translated into Korean!)

There are believers from 15 countries here and the teachings must be translated by radio transmission into 7 languages. Despite this miniature verison of Babel, we are able to communicate quite well. It is helpful to have the Bible to use as a sort of Rosetta Stone.

It is 2AM and a small majority of the conference participants are still in the main meeting hall with me. We have been here since 8PM (this is after almost 6 hours of meetings earlier in the day!). I just had a good conversation with an English woman who has been a member of this church for more than 20 years. She moved to Korea as an English language teacher and was able to hear the gospel. After becoming a christian she decided to stay with the church to help as a translator and has been travelling 'round the world doing this ever since. We had the opportunity to talk about OT symbolism, heaven, and share our testimonies among other things. The pic below was taken on a walk through the grounds here with some new friends. The fountain that we stood in front of had the story of the good Samaritan sculpted on it. One side portrays the robbers escaping, one has the "religious" men walking away with their books, one shows the Samaritan coming upon the injured man, and the back shows the inn.