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Pictures from our 2014 Philly Missions Trip
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- Liberty Bell
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- Jay & Joseph at Christ Church where G. Washington and John Adams once sat
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- Christ Church
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- @Manna Ministry
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- @Manna Ministry
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- @China Town
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- @China Town supermarket
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- Philly Skyline
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- @ a Philly Park for the day’s debrief
SJ Lee
SJ Lee testimony (with edits)
Before i met God, I was just a kid that did not know what I was doing and basically did every bad thing there is. One day a family friend told me about God while visiting our family. When I first heard the story it was amazing! I wanted to know more about this God. Our family started going to church around that time. The first few churches were not a good fit for our family. In the mean time, I was still a lost sinner, doing whatever I liked. Finally my parents settled on a new church and I thought it would be like other all the other churches: small number of people, no one my age, and me not understanding the bible. But it was the complete opposite! It was awesome. When I got home that day I told my mom that the church was awesome and I wanted to go back. However to be honest, I wanted to go back not because God, but to play with my new friends.
As I continued to attend Risen Sun church I began to grow in faith. I began to notice that I desired to learn more about God. One Sunday service, we learned about not just going to church but being the church. When I heard that phrase I understood what that meant! I knew what the pastor was talking about! After the message, I responded to the invitation to pray. I prayed that I wanted to be the church and not just go to church. I wanted to be a member of God’s church! Thats when I knew I had finally met God. That’s when God became important.
From that day on, I have been growing in my faith and my life started to change. Even my thought process has changed. Before God I would do whatever I wanted. But now God has changed me. Now I think before I act and try to spend more time with God. I am growing in my faith and I trust God to continually work in my life.
Sylvia Kim
Testimony – Sylvia Kim
I was blessed enough to be born and raised in a Christian home. All throughout my childhood, I never missed church, loved to sing and dance to worship songs every Sunday. But as I grew up and entered into my teenage years, it was no longer about the Sunday school songs and the pleasant stories I heard about Jesus. Church became more of a social network to hang out with friends than a place of worship. I always wanted to fit in with the kids at church because I felt like I was always the outcast in school since the move I had in 2nd grade from Korea to the United States. To be more involved at the church, I served and became a student leader. I never really knew what it really meant to serve God but the winter retreat I went to in 7th grade has really changed my life. The guest speaker was talking about the love of Jesus how He died for our sins on the cross and rose again from the grave. At the end of the message, he brought out a notebook and a pen to write down your name if you felt in your heart you wanted to dedicate your life to Him. Something in my heart tugged and I decided to write my name on the book. Shortly after in April, I was baptized and accepted Jesus as my Lord and savior. Though I didn’t fully understand in 7th grade what it meant to write my name on that notebook, I am slowly but surely understanding the love that the Father has for me. I am a sinner but I know that Christ died for my sins (1 Peter 3:18) and His grace is sufficient for me (2 Corin. 12:9). No matter how hard the circumstances nor how big my sin is God is always faithful. He will never leave me nor forsake me, I believe that Jesus will make my difficult situations into a path I can walk on. (Isaiah 49:11)
Philadelphia Team’s excursion
On Saturday April 5th, the 2014 Philly team was invited by Great Commission Comm Church to run their VBS during their church’s annual retreat. It was a LONG excursion (4 hour round trip), but mostly it was a time to earn some precious on-the-job training, as well as spend some quality team building moments.
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- team bonding time
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- red rover
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- outdoor games
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- outdoor games
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- cool view
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- nathan regis the astro man
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- “preparing” the game room
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- but not really
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- more nathan Reginald
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- Joseph’s craft station
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- look at Cristin’s face
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- before the madness begins
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- chaos
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- story station
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- controlled chaos
A Significant Mile Marker
I am told fairly constantly that the DC metro area’s traffic is among the nation’s worst. In fact, a 30 minute lee way to going some where in northern VA used to be OK only 10 years back. (Now it’s more like 45 minutes) To add to the frustration and confusion, a few years back the good folks who run the state of VA decided to renumber all of the existing exit numbers on 495 to simply reflect the mile markers. It’s not a big deal now, but at first it required people to readjust their driving habits a bit.
I open with that analogy as I reflect upon the close of my 3rd year at Risen Sun Pres Church. I started in April 2011. That’s a big deal to me because up until this point, I had not found a church family, home, or environment which was healthy enough to sustain myself or my family for longer than 2.5 years! Assuredly, some (if not many) of the blame must be placed on my shoulders. And the 3 years at Risen Sun hasn’t been easy, for sure. And yet here we are. Following closely to wherever the Lord leads. Sometimes the Lord leads us through deserts, and sometimes through ice cream shops! But one thing that always must remain constant is that Jesus is at the front and we following in the back. It’s never easy or comfortable. The first church, where I was determined to serve until I died, was left because of issues within the church leadership. That was heart breaking and I asked God, “Why?!” However, at the second church is where I met my beautiful and loving wife.
And so as I approach April 2014, I place a mile marker, of sorts, for myself. This is indeed a big deal. God has brought me safe thus far. And though the road was tough, He has brought me safe thus far. God took a bunch of whining, frustration causing, holy fire inviting, Judgment Day quickening, unthankful bunch of people (two generations) through the wilderness in spite of their stubborness and all of the above superlatives to His end goal of the promised land. I’d imagine that sometimes He feels the same way about me as He did about them Israelites. And yet as He did not give up on them, so I know that He will not give up on me. He has brought me safe thus far.
2014 Inner City Mission to Philly (with CSM)
Howdy all,
So this is a little late, but here is the formal (at least on our page) about the upcoming 2014 Inner City Mission Team to Philly. We’ll be partnering this year with a group called CSM (center for student missions). We’re very excited about God expanding our dreams and vision for our church stepping out of our comfort zone and “being Jesus with skin on” to those who are often and easily overlooked. Anyway, we’re excited to have two members from last year’s DC Team returning (Jay & Brandon). As such, we’re only able to take a limited number of students on this team, so take a look at the application form, fill it out, and turn it in by Jan 31st! Here’s a link to CSM’s site on Philly. Come join us.
Brandon Lee’s Testimony
On November 24, 2013 Brandon Lee will be confirmed… and join as a full fledged member of our church. Here is his testimony:
“When I think about life I think of life as a book. My book has ripped pages, dirty pages and even pages that have been ripped out. I grew up in a Christian family so I did Christian things and did Christian stuff. But at that time if someone would have asked me who Jesus was I couldn’t have answered.
Before I became a Christian I found myself constantly looking for new things. Even after I was hooked to the “new thing” I would eventually get bored with it and search for something else. I now realize that I was trying to fill a hole that I could not fill.
Growing up in a Christian home I knew that Jesus died on the cross for me and that if I believed in him then I would be clean. So during the summer of 2012, Jesus came into my life and I acknowledged that I am a sinner, looking in the wrong places searching for God’s love. Finally i found someone (God) who can tape my old pages and put new pages into my book.
Since becoming a Christian, God has made me into a new being. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”. Though I am not perfect God has shown me that my actions good or bad does not make God love me any less. And where I have failed over and over, God has yet to fail.
Cristin Choi’s Testimony
Tomorrow (11/24/13), Cristin is getting confirmed… or publicly declaring her faith in Christ and joining our church as a member. Here is her testimony:
“I was born into a Christian family, I went to church on Sundays and knew that Jesus died on the cross for us and how we should do everything for the glory of God and I had a jumble of head knowledge. But I knew only about Him and I never knew Him. This summer, I went to a retreat and I wasn’t expecting anything much…signing up for retreats was simply what I was used to doing. But during the retreat God revealed Himself to me. It’s solely because of God’s grace that I was saved and it is by His grace that I grow and mature in Christ. I could not have loved God if He had not worked in my heart to change me. God’s working in me every day cause the walk with God is a long, slow walk and I’ve just barely begun my journey with Christ.”
2013 Wnter Retreat
Ladies and gentlemen!
Here it is! The 2013 Winter Retreat Registration form. The deadline is Nov 24.
Glory Seekers.
Whose glory will you seek?