I want to become a messenger spreading God's love
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Manmin News
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July 12, 2005 |
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 Deacon Dongpyo Chun
(Men's Mission leader of Wonjoo Manmin Church, Representative of Jeonkook Trans)
In the midst of a meaningless life I felt spiritual thirst
In 1986, I married Minyeo and lived a comfortable life. But it was not long before, as a truck driver, I was addicted to drinking and gambling and not interested in my home. It led to frequent quarrels with my wife. Fortunately we avoided divorce, but our marriage only existed from day by day without love and trust.
In 1991, 5 years later, I worked at a transportation company for house-moving affiliated with the US Army. We moved into the Osan area. There I met many Christians and began to live a Christian life because I just felt exhausted. My wife and I tried to live according to the word of God and my home became peaceful.
Afterwards God's grace came upon my heart and I began to feel so hungry for spiritual messages and curious about many things about the Bible. So, we attended as many revival meetings and divine healing meetings as we were able, but everything was to no avail.
Tasting the spiritual realm at Manmin Joong-ang Church
In the early 1997, Deaconess Myongja Cho took me to Manmin Joong-ang Church and when I entered its main sanctuary, I felt as if I were in the kingdom of heaven. I watched many of the church members singing praises to God with bright and beautiful smiles and my heart was flooded with indescribable emotion. Through the messages of the Senior Pastor, Rev. Dr. Lee, I realized how foolish my life had been.
Listening to Rev. Dr. Lee's sermon tapes including "The Message of the Cross" "The Measure of Faith" and "Spirit, Soul and Body" I was greatly delighted in tasting the spiritual realm. I thought he is so trustworthy to be able to preach those wonderful messages. I came to love him as my shepherd little by little. Though I lived in the Pyongtaek City, I tried to come to Seoul and attend the service at the main sanctuary because I wanted to see him in person just once more.
The gate of the gospel was opened to my hometown
At that time I purchased a truck and ran a moving company on my own. Deaconess Cho advised me to move to the Wonjoo City, next to my hometown, and to give a help in establishing a branch church in that city.
She had prayed to God to spread the holiness gospel to all of Kang-won Province, and seeing my wife and me leading a successful life in Christ for a long time, she suggested. We were touched by her love for the souls and willingly accepted her suggestion in hopes to repay the grace of our Lord. I had no reason to reject it because it would bring me better opportunity to be nearer to Rev. Dr. Lee's messages.
We began to pray for our new house where we should live in that city, and God showed a good one in my wife's dream. When we went to that city, we found a good, large house prepared for us. It had not been rented and was unoccupied for 3 months. Surprisingly the rental key money was the same amount we prepared.
In the autumn of 1997, we moved to the Wonjoo City and prepared every detailed thing for founding a branch church attending each service, prayer meetings, various eventual festivals and education meetings.
Founding Wonjoo Manmin Branch Church
On the 2 nd of May, 1999, eight members had a church-opening service. Deacon Cho, my wife and I and other members shed many tears of emotion. I did not know whether I was in the body or not when a dreamlike goal came true. I was full of the Holy Spirit.
The 7 th Two-week Special Revival Meeting with Rev. Dr. Jaerock Lee took place and we attended it through the Internet. How thankful and joyful it was to hear the words of life in Wonjoo City!
But during the revival something else unexpected happened. A Korean broadcasting station wrongfully broadcasted a program about our church that was not true. Members of Wonjoo Manmin church pasted revival posters on the gates of our homes and publicized our church and Rev. Dr. Lee. We tried our best to announce the revival meeting and help the central church regardless of the confusion and embarrassment. It was beautiful!
A few months later a simultaneous satellite broadcast system was installed at the church. We could attend real time services from the main sanctuaries of Manmin Joong-ang Church in our church. We were very joyful and thankful to be able to see the Senor Pastor Lee's face and hear his messages.
We have overcome all kinds of trials with the loving care and prayer of Senior Pastor Lee, and each time, God sent good workers to us and let us manage our church properly.
Blessing came upon my home and business
God saw our deeds of faith and opened a gate for our blessing. A moving company is very busy on Sundays because many people try to move on Sunday, so it's not easy to close moving companies on Sundays. But when I told my clients I would not open my company on Sunday, they praised my company saying it was trustworthy and changed their moving dates from Sunday to other days.
In addition, when we followed the right way in everything, our tithes increased. We didn't request high moving fees but rather tried to serve and accommodate our clients according to their living standard and moved any piece of luggage safely and properly. As a result, my company was well spoken of by many people and orders were flooding in. At first, when we started out as a moving company, we gave a tithe of 2 or 3 hundred-thousand Won (2 or 3 hundred US dollars), but later we gave the tithe of 3 million Won (3 thousand US dollars).
A moving company will sometimes meet various unexpected accidents, but because we start our job by receiving the prayer of Rev. Dr. Lee on an audio tape every day, we have been completely protected from any accidents.
We walked in the right way and blessings have come upon our company. As our souls are getting along well, everything is successful and we enjoy good health. Through the prayers of Senior Pastor Lee my wife was completely healed of back pain, dust allergies, chronic fatigue, and 12-year pains in both her hands and feet.
I give all thanks and glory to God the Father who has led and blessed us to this day and give real thanks to Rev. Dr. Jaerock Lee for teaching us with the words of life.
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