I am so glad that you chose to check out the Unity Baptist Church Youth Ministry web site.

I hope that you will come visit UBC and you will find warm, friendly and accepting people

with contemporary, relevant and practical sermons, ministries, programs and activities.

I was born and raised in a Christian family. I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior,

when I was thirteen years old at Daehung Baptist Church in Taejon during a revival meeting.

In August 1982, I came to United States to study at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri.

In October 1982, at Savannah, Georgia, I realized that God is calling me to be a minister

during my devotion time in the early morning. The next night, I prayed again, and He was

convicting me again to be His servant. With that in mind, I finished my B.A. degree from SBU.

Then I came back to my country to serve my military duties. All this times I believed that

I need to prepare myself to be God's servant. In March 1991, I decided to study at Korea

Baptist Theological Seminary. I earned my Master of Divinity in 1993. During those years,

I strongly felt that I should return to United States to continue my study in a Doctoral program

at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. In August 1994, I came to United States.

Before my second trip to the States, I got married to Hyekyung. In January 24 1995,

my first daughter Esther was born In New Orleans, LA. And in May 30 2001, my first son

Moses was born in New Orleans, LA. And in August 26 2003, my second son David was born

in Nashville, TN. Currently, I am holding a Th.M. degree from NOBTS, and working on a D.Min.

program at NOBTS.

I have witnessed and experienced the struggling to effectively minister to the second

generations of Korean-American in the Korean churches. Also, there is the challenge of trying

to reach the un-churched second generations and their friends. I feel that we are battling

uphill to reach and disciple Korean-Americans in our churches. So, my prayer and desire are

to be used of the Lord to mobilize and nurture Korean-American Christians to reach their friends

and community, both those who are un-churched and previously churched, for Christ.

We, Korean-American adolescents, experience the uncertainty among multiple cultural

realities reflecting the discords and harmonies in our soul. Korean-American adolescents are

straddling over multiple cultures: (1) the mainstream culture of American society, (2) the ethnic

culture of our origin, and (3) the culture of adolescence. Blending the cultures may cause

conflicting values of these coexisting or competing cultures. We have difficulty forming our

identities as we have been suspended between two Korean and American cultures.

In the process of assimilation, usually we are confronted with acceptance or rejection,

belonging or isolation, and in-group or out-group. The uncertainty of in-betweenness can create

either a constructive condition for reconciliation or a destructive condition against wholeness

both in the church and society. Thus, a proper response to the struggling of marginality is

needed for the sake of ministries to this group.

So, we need to discover the special roles that we have as change-agents for God.

From a Christian perspective, marginal people tend to go in one of two directions.

On the one hand, we become lost in our in-betweenness. We become fully neither

Korean nor American. On the other hand, we discover our valuable role as change agents

for God. We need to realize our bi-cultural flexibility and mobility which give us

great missionary potential. We can go out to other marginal as well as

mainstream people to proclaim the gospel.