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Continue reading →: Conference Center in the DMZ
One day we took a trip to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ… ironic name because it is highly militarized). This was beyond description for me. Surreal. At one point we were standing within shouting distance of a North Korean soldier with no barrier at all between us. Others said when they…
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Continue reading →: Chapel at Prayer Mountain
Kwanglim Methodist Church owns an amazing retreat facility called Prayer Mountain. We stayed here two nights and conducted debriefing sessions in this beautiful chapel. Kwanglim has facilities that would rival many annual conference retreat centers in the States. In this video, Rev. Bob Kaylor, from Park City, Utah, one of…
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Continue reading →: Starbucks in Seoul
Amazing how American companies export American products anywhere. What's really funny about this is that Koreans, in general, don't even drink that much coffee and when they do it is generally of the espresso variety. Korean coffee shops don't even sell brewed coffee. The closest you can get is an…
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Continue reading →: Korean Musings
Today we visited the Seoul Girls Commercial High School. The principal of the school is the father-in-law of the senior pastor of Kwanglim Methodist Church. This is a Christian school that is more technologically advanced than any school I've either seen or heard of existing in the United States. It…
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Continue reading →: Computer Challenged
Well, you can check out my fb for some pictures. I was going to upload some videos but my battery died. Not sure why. It should have been fully charged. It’s been a great trip so far for all the Beeson Pastors and International Leaders. We’ve been getting to know…
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Continue reading →: Korean Christian Beginnings
This morning we visited the Yanghwajin Foreign Foreign Missionary Cemetery that sits almost on the edge of the Han River, the largest river in Korea, that runs through Seoul. It was a major trade route and where Christian missionaries first entered the country in the nineteenth century. At the beginning…
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Continue reading →: Lunch. First Real Korean Meal
We visited the Foreign Missionary Cemetery this morning. That was an amazing experience which I will write more about some time later. Lunch was traditional Korean, beef cooked on the table with various veggies on the side with the ever-present Kimchi. Well, we're leaving. So I will be in touch…
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Continue reading →: Korea
I'm in Korea, at the Sevilla Airport Hotel in Seoul. We have limited internet access so I am going to make this quick. The trip was great, actually met up with some of my Beeson buddies in Tokyo. Got here lat at night, now getting ready to have breakfast with…
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Continue reading →: Heading Out
Well, I’m sitting in Bluegrass Airport, waiting. Not sure why I needed to be here two hours before my flight. I’m going to Detroit. I am excited, though it is always difficult to leave the house and say good bye to Roz and the kids (though Roz brought me to…
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Continue reading →: Jesus, Moses, and the Apple iPad
The iPad has made its long-awaited appearance at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center and all the oohs and ahhs have subsided and tech pundits are chiming in on the cool things it does and some of the cool things it doesn't do. The anticipation for this was pretty big, Doonesbury…
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