Friday, January 16, 2015

Bible Santa Monica City College and World Campus Mission



(Dustin Hoffman is from SMC - posted by Isaac H. Kim




Lately, in an email Pastor John Baek shared the work of God 2014, stating (Bold-faced and color font is mine):

Hi, dear missionary Isaac. On the first day of the new year, we and Downey UBF had a soccer game. Missionary Philip, David Cho, Gideon Lim and other missionaries came to El Camino with some second gens and Andrew. About two years ago, we lost, but this time, we won 6-2. 

And missionary Philip and David graciously invited us to Hometown Buffer for dinner - it was very good. So, we are going to have this soccer fellowship more often than before. Missionary Philip told me and Grace about his visit to you - we were surprised that he made kimchi there at Redding. His tender heart and love for you touched our hearts deeply. I could see that as you loved God and served Him wholeheartedly, God has given you many people who love you as their father; missionary John Kwon is just another. I pray that I may be one of them. 

Your life of faith is beautiful, and I am happy and thankful for God's blessing that He gave me a chance to have life together with you and serve God's work together so that I might learn from you, be trained by you, and established as a man of God just like you. Thank you for your love and prayer for us. 

On Nov. 22-23, we had the Fall Bible conference; we prayed for 120 attendants, and God blessed us with 121 people. The title was: "God is love." We wanted to see and show God's beauty through this conference, so that, by seeing how beautiful our God is, all the attendants at the conference might be attracted to Him, fall in love with him and pursue him, instead of being attracted by other things. And God blessed us greatly. Shepherds and shepherdesses were very touched. About the conference, John Boos said, "This conference was different." I think that was actually, how all of us perceived this conference.

 After this conference, new disciples are growing up. Since the seed is planted in them, we pray that we may reap the harvest this year with 12 new disciples. So, I attached one group picture from the conference. Also, on January 10, we had a wedding ceremony for Rob Crane and Iliana Garcia. It was beautiful wedding. 

Rob has been praying and struggling to pioneer Santa Monica City College; he works in downtown LA, but after work, he drives to Santa Monica City college, and all by himself, he has been serving one to one ministry there. I pray that God may establish his kingdom powerfully at SMC through him. So, I attached two wedding pictures - seven house churches (one more house churches are there in our ministry, but that house church is going through some difficulty due to many reasons; so, they are not in the picture), and group pictures (most of disciples in our ministry are in the picture). Thank you again for your love and prayer for me, my family, and all the disciples here at El Camino. I will send one more picture (my family picture, which was taken at the wedding) in a separate mail, due to the limit of attached file size. Thank you.
Your servant in Christ, John Baik

Note by Isaac H. Kim

Please pray for the SMC pioneering work, esp. shepherd Rob Crane and Iliana Garcia; Rob works in downtown LA but after work he visits SMC to feed sheep. Among 126 city colleges in California, SMC produces the most number of students transferring to UC campuses. Dustin Hoffman graduated from SMC. 

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