2013 UBF Int'l Conference Site

Main auditorium of the Indiana University in Pennsylvania
It can hold 5,000 people.
May the Lord bless North America to serve his great purpose that is to send out Missionaries making disciples of all nations!

From Feb 21-23, 2013 in progress on this venue is the Canada/USA 2013 UBF staff conference.



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No wonder that they call Him Logos

The miracle of Jesus walking on the water can be explained by the Quantum Levitation?

What about the miracle of the Risen Jesus going up into the sky (or heaven if you will) while his disciples were intently watching him going up with zero friction?

Or the miracle of the Risen Jesus walking through a solid wall?

Combine the Quantum Levitation with the discovery that 99.999% of man's body consists of empty space. See the discussion below.

Responding to my question posted on Quora Nate Stewart, idea collector answers:
All matter is 99.9999% empty space. Everything you can see and touch is actually mostly nothingness, even seemingly immovable objects. This is because of the very tiny sizes and relatively huge distances between electrons and their nuclei. If we scaled an atom's nucleus to the size of a baseball, the electron cloud would be about 2.5 miles away. The only reason we don't fall through the Earth is because of the repelling effect of opposing charges between atoms.
In fact, matter is so vacuous that if these oppositional forces stopped working (except on the ground), you could walk through walls, or buildings, or aircraft carriers and none of your atoms would even come close to the atoms in those objects. You would just pass through it like air.
To go a step further, if we were able to eliminate the empty spaces by crushing all these atoms together as close as they are in a neutron star, just a teaspoon of matter in this state would be dense enough that it would weigh 900 times more than the Great Pyramid of Giza and would sink to the center of the Earth like a marble dropped into an empty bucket.
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Frank Tipler (in his books The physics of Christianity and The physics of immortality) maintains that all miracles recorded in the Bible are explainable/doable without God having to violate the laws of physics.

And the Apostle John calls Jesus "logos". Could this mean Jesus is the Author of all laws, principles, regulations, decrees, including the laws of physics built in the nature? Did Jesus perform "miracles" without violating the laws of physics? Or does it matter for we are called to live by faith in Him the maker of all?

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Hope comes from the Bible! Read!

My granddaughter Christyn Kim won the first prize in the County of Los Angeles Public Library 33rd Annual Bookmark Contest 2012. Her drawing has a message:

Hope for the Flowers (a book by Tina Paulus)

Hope
It came from A Book!
Read!

The drawing depicts a butterfly that has just come out of a cocoon hanging upside down a branch with flowers.

The Bible is the book of books.

In the Bible we find the Life of a resurrected life in the Lord - the hope of all hopes. And it does come from the Book!

Read!
















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Life 101

It is a terrible thing to live a life not knowing the purpose of it.

In the song, "How" John Lennon (1940-1980) asks:

"how can i go forward when i
don't know
which way i'm facing?
how can i go forward when i
don't know which way to turn?
how can i go forward into
something
i'm not sure of? oh no, oh no."

On his death bed, his wife Ono said, "Oh, no, oh no."
Obviously John Lennon did not know the purpose of life.

More or less the same thing happened to a man named Lao Tzu, supposedly the founder of the Chinese Taoism, an ancient Chinese philospher who allegedly lived about 5 centuries before Christ.

In his book Tao Tse Ching, he said, "Tao (the way) that can be called Tao is no longer Tao." Obviously he did not know why he ought to live and for what he was to live.

Later, again according to one tradition, he felt sick and tired of what he observed going on in this world especially among government officials, particularly their corruptedness, he suddenly became silent, then disappeared into a mountain and committed suicide.

Why then did God give you life? What is the purpose of life - your life and my life?

Isaiah 49:5-6 gives out the answer, that is, to restore man back to God himself. We've wandered off of him. But he is seeking after, so we be restored back to him.

⁵ And now the Lord says—
he who formed me in the womb to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
and gather Israel to himself,
for I am^[a] honored in the eyes of the Lord
and my God has been my strength—
⁶ he says:
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant
to restore the tribes of Jacob
and bring back those of Israel I have kept.
I will also make you a light for the Gentiles,
that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”

The Bible categorizes all peoples of all ages into two categories: Jews and Gentiles.

Jews are often called Jacob or Israel. Gentiles are all peoples on earth minus Jews.

The differences between the two classes are that the former is the direct recepient of the Revelation (God's word) whereas for the latter the Revelation (such as the will of God in regard to everything on life, like the purpose of it) is given second-handedly.

Isaiah who lived about seven centuries before Christ was one of the prophets who were given direct access to God's revelation. And in Isaiah 49:5-6, God revealed to him the purpose of sending him to the Jews and the Gentiles, that is, to restore you and me back to Himself.

About 7 centuries after Isaiah, God sent Jesus His Son who in turn made the purpose of life clear, when he said in John 14:20, "On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you", or as in John 17:21 says, "[A]ll of them may be one, Father, just as you and I are one."

This is "LIFE 101."

I think the Lord reconfirmed this being the case with every one including myself, by allowing me to check into a room no. "C2101" at tbe Viva Wyndham Hotels and Resorts at the Grand Bahamas. On my way back home from Africa, which involved 17 hours of airplane ride, I grew weary so in order to give myself a little break, I found one good all inclusive (flight, hotel, meal etc.) package deal, dropped by the Freeport at the Grand Bahamas. The guy at the receptionist had a hard time to find the reservation. Finally he tracked down my reservation, and assigned me to a room way back there in the corner: C2101.

Why did the Lord arrange the room number this way? Here is my interpretation: C stands for Christ. 2 stands for two to be united into one, that is, Jesus Chrsit the head of the church, and myself, the member of the church called the Bride of Jesus Christ. What does 101 signifify? The two individual one's becoming "0", that is, a complete merge.

Why should "C" stand out upfront? It must be so for it states the means by which to make this heart-beating purpose possible, that is, Christ who died for all of our sins (or failures) and rose again to transform them into victories in life.  

So life 101 which is the gospel (or good news of life) 101 can be summed up with "C2101", that is, God sent His Son Jesus Christ in order to (thus the number 2) form the two (Jesus the husband and the church the bride) (thus the number 2) to become one (thus there is a number '0' that stands for oneness in the sense of nothingness that hinders the two from becoming one]  still with each of the two ones maintaining individuality (thus 1 and 1).

This makes me to stop 'wandering' around and start 'wondering' on the 'wonder of life' in the Lord who is the sum total of all the wonder of wonders. So stop wandering start wondering.

Pastor, why did you let me fall asleep last Sunday?

Author of this article - Robert Frost, engineer/instructor at NASA
1015 votes by Emma Wayne, Arjun Prakash, Taylan Ozdere, (more)

John Medina, in his book Brain Rules, introduces data that forms the following graph:



The data shows that student attention level takes a dive, approximately 10 minutes into a lesson. This is a natural occurrence (and I believe the reason YouTube videos were initially limited to <9 minutes), but can be dealt with by a good instructor. The problem is most instructors (particularly at the university level) know next to nothing about the learning process and instructional theory. A good instructor will introduce variation into a lesson every 10 minutes to regain the students' attention (as depicted in the below graph).


This variation can be accomplished in many ways - from inserting a student activity to asking questions or otherwise soliciting involvement from the students to changing the delivery style or mechanism.

The problem is that so many instructors see instructing as a one-way communication. If a student is not contributing to the communication, they lose focus and many literally go to sleep.

There are other triggers for sleeping during lessons, such as eating a large meal immediately before the lesson, poor ventilation in the classroom, and tired students.


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Missionary Stephen and Hanna Sung

There is one silver missionary couple serving healing mission at the Makerere UBF, Kampala, Uganda. They are in their sixties. Mr. Stephen is an acupuncturist. He and his wife has one son and one daughter all married. While Mr. and Mrs. Sung were in Korea they expressed their desire to help out the needy in Africa, but they did not have financial means to do so. Their two children honored their parents' desire to serve the Lord, so pledged to support their parents financially. So Sung couple are now staying at one of the guest rooms at BMC treating patients. Dr. Joseph Chung has a high opinion on the couple. After the Sunday worship service, the Medical healing mission team left the center for a remote cillage. Then right before I and Missionary Mark Yoon of Kenya were about to leave BMC for the Entebe airport, I chatted with Dr. Joseph. Around that time, Mr. Sung was closing the front door of the BMC, and his wife was doing some clean up. So I asked Dr. Joseph about them. And Dr. Joseph shared with me how they joined the ministry. He spoke hightly of them. So I asked them to come and have a photo session with me. May the Lord bless their service in the Lord.


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God has a big plan for me

Makerere UBF has five shepherd families.

1. kennedy and vivian

In order to study at Makerere of Kampala Uganda Kennedy moved from Kenya to Uganda. His wife Vivian is Ugandan. Kennedy is an optomologist working on residency program at Makerere University.

2 patrick - lillian

Patrick is a phamacist and Lillian is a medical docctor.

3. abraham omoding - connie

Abraham is a medical doctor.

4. stephen - margaret

Stephen works as an engineer at the National Institute of Science and Technology. He served a Sunday message today entitled "David's 500".

5. alan - claire

Alan is a teacher teaching agricultural engineering at the Nkumba University while working on a phd program.

Shepherd Kennedy was holding his son (1.5 years) wearing a shirt with a message "God has big plans for me."

So God's hope for Bible Uganda and world mission is alive seen everywhere including on a t-shirt.

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Nkumba University

After the sunday worship, I and Missionary Mark Yoon had to leave for the Entebe Airport. It is about one hour of driving distance from the Makerere UBF center to the airport, if there is no traffic.

Dr. Samuel Yoo arranged Shepherd Daniel to give us a ride to the airport.


On the way, I struck up a conversation with Daniel. Here is a brief story of Daniel's life in the Lord.

He was born and grew up at Kampala, Chiambogo area. His parents are Catholic, and they work as staff members at the Chiambogo University.

During his second year at the Chiambogo, studing civil engineering, one of his close childhood frlends invited him to a Bible study. At first he was reluctant, but since he grew up with his friend from childhood all the way to his collelge years in the same neighborhood. out of curiosity he accepted the invitation.

Dr. Samuel Yoo led the Genesis Bible study. Genesis lesson 2, the Bible study on the Garden of Eden deeply touched his heart.

Study moved him so much that since then he never missed the Genesis study.

One day while he was seated underneath a tree on campus, he was deeply meditating on what he learend on Genesis 2. Then he met Kennedy. He invited him to the Bible study. Now brother Kennedy works as a Chiambogo UBF webmaster.

He lives near Nkumba university. From his place to Chiambogo University it takes about an hour by car.

He has deep respect for Dr. Samuel Yoo. Due to work as a civil engineer he used to be late to the Bible study appointments. Yet, Dr. Samuel Yoo was always there on time. Dr. Samuel Yoo serves sunday worship messages faithfully. He also has many sheep to teach the Bible. "Yet, he is always faithful to Bible study appointments", says Daniel.

Now that Daniel grew up as a shepherd, he struggles to follow Dr. Samuel's example.

Once upon a time because his job site was about 250 kms away, as a civil engineer working on a dam project he had to drive 500 kms round trip every weekend, so he could attend the sunday worship.

Nowadays he was given a new blessing that is to pioneer NU, together with Shepherd Patrick Ogwang. He has two sheep at Chiambogo. Although he lives at a place near NU, he visits Chiambogo twice - Wednesday and Sunday. On Wednesdays he goes early to have a Bible study with his sheep at 4:00 p.m. and then attend a leaders' group Bible study at 7:00 pm at Chiambogo UBF center. Sundays he has a worshp at 9 a.m. and then he studies the Bible with his sheep. The remainder of week days, he visits NU to feed sheep.

Since the NU campus is on the way from Kampala to Entebe, we dropped by NU campus, took a picture, and had a prayer meeting. I asked Missionary Mark Yoon lead the prayer meeting that Shepherd Patrick and Shepehrd Daniel would work together, and produce national leaders, to turn the nation to be a kingdom of preists and a holy nation.


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Sunday worship at BMC, Kampala, Makerere

At 9:00 am we had a sunday worship. About 200 attended the service. Dr. Abraham presided the meeting.




After special song and recitation of the apostle's creed Shepherd Stephen Seebale served a message on 1 Samuel 21 and 22. The Lord put David
through a wilderness training like bread training or fear training. While studying overseas Stephen also went through bread training. He read an ad for job opportunity at a hotel. At a job interview the chief chef asked "What can you cook?" Although he knew nothing about cooking he said "I can do everything!"
At Makerere 10 apostles team members are growing under his leadership.
Sunday worship attendants increased 300%. May the Lord use this site for BMC as David's Addulam where David's 500 brave soldier's of Jesus may be raised.
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Location:Makerere Hill Road,Kampala,Uganda

Bethesda Medical Centre (BMC) Dedication Service



Front Facade of BMC

On Feb. 9 (Saturday), 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at the compound of the BMC, located accross the main entrance to the University of Makerere, a dedication service for the BMC took place.

About 70 plus people attended. From the U.S. Dr. John Jun (flying out of Korea), Dr. Ruth and Peter Yoon, Dr. Hanah and Sam Zun, and Isaac H. Kim from LA, attended. From Korea, 30 medical healing mission team led by medical doctors (physician, dentist, internal medicine, pediatrician, etc.) joined. [After the service, the medical relief mission team will attend the sunday worship tomorrow, and that afternoon they will head for remote villages located about 6-7 hours of drive. They expect to treat about 1,500 to 1,700 patients for three days.]

Other attendees include Missionary Mark Yoon from Kenya and Rev. Daniel Rhee from S. Africa. To celebrate the occasion came Korean community leaders. Among them were Rev. Jungsik Lee (President of Korean missionary association), and Mr. Park Jongdae (Korean Ambassador).

Dr. Abraham Omoding presided the service.

Missionary Isaac Kim offered a represenative prayer. He asked Dr. Luke Lim, "What do you want me to pray for?"

He said, "Three topics -

1. For God to use BMC for his good purpose esp. world mission and healing purpose;

2. For the Bethesda Mission Hospital Project to become prosperous; and 3. For the provision of the resources for BMC (men power like medical doctors or nurses, and mateirals such as medical equipment).

Dr. John Jun served a message on Haggai 1, stating we ought to do something practical to serve people. He also said that this BMC be used as a 'recharging' center for missionaries and shepherds operating in Africa.

Kwangjoo UBF III members did a Taekwon Dance.


Makerere UBF choir offered two special songs, before the service and at the closing of the service.



Dr. Luke Lim shared the history of BMC.




Missionary Mark Yoon read from a note the congratulatory remark made by Dr. Abraham Kim of Chicago.

Rev. Daniel Rhee gave a benedictory prayer.

After the service, Dr. John Jun along with Korean Ambassador and Rev. Jungsik Lee cut the tape to the building.

Then there was a guided tour through the building.

The tour began from the first floor to the second floor then to the basement. First floor is to be used for pharmacy x ray room lab cashier and toilets, on the left wing side, eye clinic pediatrics, internal medicine, dentistry, etc. on the right wing side. Second floor is dedicated for the principal's office, room for endoscope, doctors' break room, operation prep and operation rooms, in-patients' rooms, and nurse station for admitted patients.










Each floor is 450 sf. The new building in brown color is sitting right next to the old building (white color) on the lot size of a half acre.

Old Building

After a snack party, they took a group picture.


In the afternoon Dr. Ulryke and her company arrived from Germany to join the medical relief mission.



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Location:Kampala,Uganda

Ethiopian Airline #501 at B gate 41 Dulles Airport, DC

One missionary to Tanzania repeatedly advised me not to take the Ethiopian Airline. Reason? The prices are cheap but services are cheap also. Plus they have a good record of airpnane crashes. They are accidents and incidents prone. Click here for the infor.

Yet here I am at the IAD (airport at the Washington DC) ready to board the Ethiopian Air bound for Uganda (to attend the opening ceremony of the Bethesta Medical Mission Hospital at Kampala) feeling weary and weak (not just for my tooth pain).
Does the Lord have a remedy for this sort of weariness and weakness?
Yes he does. In Isaiah 40:28-31 it is written: [28] Do you not know?Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God,the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. [29] He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. [30] Even youths grow tired and weary,and young men stumble and fall; [31] but those who hope in the Lordwill renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,they will walk and not be faint.

Verse 31 represents "the" resurrection message of resurrection messages (in my opinion). Being subject to gravity and carrying a body made of dust even youths grow weary and weak.
I am in my 60's and I see this being the case in an increasing measure. Yet how is it that a man even soars into the sky? What does it mean to soar riding on wings like eagles? What are the wings made of? Who with what sort of body is capable of running even at God's speed and yet NOT grow weary?
Do you need a hint? - "Those who hope in the Lord" You've guessed it right! A man with a resurrexted body. (Romans 8:24) Now I boarded the Ethiopean Air and ready to go up into the air.
Have a nice day.
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The message for the weary and the weak, not the poor

Who, with the breath of his hand, marked off the heavens? Isaiah 40:12 Why do you say my cause is disgregarded by my God? Isaiah 40:27 Do you not know? 40:28 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Isaiah 20:29 But those who hope in the Lord will: 1) renew their strength 2) soar on wings like eagles 3) run and not grow weary 4) walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31