The Lord's Church

Jon and I are having such a great time being part of a Korean church. I think I wrote before about how our church here in Busan is a branch of a bigger church led by an American pastor up near Seoul (about 4 hours away from us). There are a lot of people up at the church in Suwon that can speak English because many of them are on the church staff or Tribe of Levi staff (an international worship ministry housed under the church). At our church here, there are only a handful of people who can really even hold a basic conversation with us. But it has been fun to see how much we already feel at home and feel so loved by these people despite the fact that we can't communicate with our words.

Here is a picture of the worship conference. Yesterday was the last session, so we will have our Saturdays free once again. It was so awesome to go spend the day at the conference and have fellowship with them afterwards, but it will be nice to get some rest. We've been going non stop.

Because the worship conference was on the other side of town and so is the church, we spent the night with one of the families from church instead of coming home late and going all the way back the next morning. This is Mr. and Mrs. Suok and their two children. They probably speak the best English out of the people from the church down here. They were SOOOO welcoming and hospitable.

This was our bed. We slept in their son's room on the floor. I guess he doesn't have a bed. :) It was rough the first half of the night because the floor was hard and the blanket was heavy so I was hot then cold and hot then cold. But in the middle of the night we came up with a solution! We slept on top of the comforter, which added some cushion, and I covered up with my winter jacket while Jon covered up with his fleece on his upper body and a tee shirt on each leg hahaha. It was a funny site, but we slept better the second half of the night.

For breakfast we had fresh fruit, raisin bran cereal, and bagels! She was so sweet, wanting to make sure we had everything we could possibly want. After breakfast she served us tea, coffee, little cheese cakes and chocolate. She also offered us kimbop (rice and seaweed rolls) and soup. We were telling her how thankful we were and how she didn't have to work so hard and she laughed and told us how western style breakfast is nothing - it is so easy! She said it takes no time and no work compared to a normal Korean breakfast. Their breakfast and lunch are just like dinner - rice, soup, kimchi, lots of cooking, etc. So she thought this was so easy to serve for us and she was afraid we weren't eating enough. :) I just can't imagine eating a korean dinner for breakfast. I'm just so accustomed to what I consider "breakfast" food. You wouldn't eat a steak, a salad, and a baked potato for breakfast!

After breakfast we still have an hour before church and so Jon and I taught them how to play "Pigs" They loved it! They were getting so into it, it was great! They thought the pigs were pretty! haha

Mrs. Suok lost 30 points just now.

Mr. Suok never made it on the board. Every time he would get some points he would say, "one more time." He lost the gamble every time! haha. He was the "Zero team." They are the funnest koreans I have met! Full of joy and laughter in their home. They are so kind and welcoming. I told them they are my Korean family.