KINGDOM MINDED – The Offical Blog of The Young Adults of the LaGrange District

For our next feature series on the blog, we’ll be taking a look at missions. There was a story in today’s AJC about a missionary who is described as “unusually serious” about his Christian faith, and focused on North Korea. I wonder if we realize how much danger can be involved when God leads us on certain mission assignments. Recently, there was a story about a youth group from Georgia that was in Honduras when political fighting broke out. If God was leading you into a place like North Korea, what would you do? The story, which is linked below, is about Robert Park, a Korean-American who has been detained by North Korean officials. Park’s pastor said this about him:

The Rev. John Benson, the pastor of Life in Christ Community Church in Park’s hometown of Tucson, Arizona, said Park’s devotion is exceptional. “You have to understand that for this guy, when it comes to the Lord, he’s very, very serious,” said Benson, who led weekend services to pray for his safe return. “Unusually serious.” Park’s father, Pyong Park, described him as fearless and said he was willing to lay down his life. “He was not afraid to die,” said the elder Park, who lives in Encinitas, California. “What he wanted was the whole world to know of North Korea’s situation.”

U.S. missionary Robert Park, a 28-year-old Korean-American (AP Photo/ Freedom and Life for All North Koreans, Seo Suk-gu)

You can read the story at this link. We hope to have some reports and tweets from people in our district on mission trips.