II.
Ancestors’ pioneering spirit and missionary spirit.
(1) Campus evangelism and leadership training
As I mentioned earlier about the background of campus
evangelism, the goal of our ministry in helping college students
is well described in the UBF statements of oath.
1. We are soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ. By correctly
handling the word of God, we want to establish a Christian view
of life.
1. We are soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ. For the
sake of Bible Korea and World Mission, we participate in the
sufferings of Christ voluntarily.
Therefore, the goals of our ministry were first to help
students to establish a Christian view of life and grow as workmen
who do not need to be ashamed before God, that is, spiritual
leaders; second, to raise up global leaders who will dedicate
their lives for the world mission. At that time, Korean society
was poor and under tyranny where young people could not have
vision. They could not think more than to get a job eat three
meals a day and survive. They could not have any vision for
their country, their fellow countrymen or the world. But Dr.
Lee helped the UBF people to have a worldwide vision as well
as a sense of problem and history about the times. He also wanted
to raise them up as spiritual leaders who have a shepherd heart,
and a sense of mission. He wanted them to be men of certain
possibility who challenges impossibility based on their five
loaves and two fish with creativity and faith. At that time
college students were considered as nuisances at local churches
because they didn’t offer even a penny but wanted to argue about
this and that, criticizing the church for having many internal
problems. But Dr. Lee began a new movement that gave clear direction
to these young college students.
In this way God gave our ministry the specific mission
of raising students as spiritual leaders. A broken shepherd
heart and a burning love towards students became the spirit
of our ministry. Because of this we had to see ourselves as
permanent students. Those who graduated from college and got
a job did not think of themselves as salary men but took pride
in being shepherds of students. Whether others recognized us
or not, we loved students more than the president or the chancellor
or professors. We believed that we owned the campus. With this
sense of mission and pride of being shepherds, we dedicated
our youth and possessions to God. Especially, married women
spent their time more on campus than at home, more in taking
care of student sheep than their own children. Those who could
not graduate from college came to our ministry and accepted
campus mission. Though they were older than average students,
they entered the college in order to shepherd college students.
Moreover, even though the rent around the university was more
expensive than other places, we wanted to live near the campus
and feed student sheep with the word of God.
Maintaining the status of a permanent college student
and campus shepherd is a peculiar way of life and required constant
struggle. When old people kept on coming and going through the
campus, they became the objects of suspicion and investigation.
Some was accused of being a kind of criminal. To make matters
worse, some missionaries were even put into prison, including
Dr. Joseph Chung of Chicago UBF, who was imprisoned for a few
days. In spite of all these hardships, we did not abandon campus
mission because it was God who gave us the specific mission
of campus evangelism, and this mission became our reason to
live and the purpose of our lives
God did not call us to be ordinary people who does ordinary
work. Among all peoples of all nations, God called us to be
shepherds for students. Our mission does not end in gathering
students. God called us to be disciple-makers who raise up spiritual
leaders and shepherds. May God help us to keep this spiritual
heritage of God’s specific calling to us as disciple-makers
among college students to the end.
(2) Bible-centered ministry
When I was in a high school, I used to pass by the UBF
center in Daein-dong and saw a white signboard on which was
written in black letters, “University Bible Research Society.”
At that time, I thought that when I entered a college, I would
go to the center and do some ‘research’ on the Bible. “University
Bible Research Society” was the first name of UBF. But after
a while we realized that the Bible is the absolute word of God,
not the object of research. Therefore, instead of doing research,
we need to read the Bible, accept it and obey it. So we changed
the name into “University Bible Reading Society.” In 1976, a
few shepherds caused a division and left our ministry. The next
year Dr. Lee was sent to America as a missionary. We had time
to reconsider the identity of our ministry and changed the name
of our ministry into “University Bible Fellowship.” Even though
we changed the name of our ministry several times, in all of
our names, “The Bible” was always included. The Bible is the
alpha and omega of our ministry. If we say that we have an ideology
in our ministry, the Bible is our ideology.
At the beginning of our UBF ministry, our Bible study
consisted of just reading the Bible and praying. Then we adopted
‘inductive Bible study.’ We did not have questions as we do
now. Several people sat around the table, and as the leader
questioned, the members answered. They observed the words of
God together, interpreting them, and finding something to repent
of or put in to practice. Usually seven to eight people sat
in a circle in empty lecture rooms or on the lawns on campus
and studied the Bible. These kind of group Bible studies spread
like wild fire until in 1966 there were more than 100 group
Bible studies at Chonnam University and Chosen University.
During vacations, in order to concentrate on Bible study,
we had conferences. At that time, we invited well-known speakers
such as Drs. Wonsul Lee, Sangkeun Lee, Hyungsuk Kim, Sahun Shin
and Pastor Doosup Um. But from 1967 we trained students and
raised them up as messengers. Through this training, student
leaders grew to be independent Bible teachers. Even after graduation,
they continued to study the Bible and struggled to live according
to the word of God and later grew to be pillar-like shepherds
in each UBF center.
In the mean time, students became more and more individualistic
and since 1968 our group Bible study changed to one-to-one Bible
studies in order to help each student personally. One-to-one
Bible studies became the most important method of Bible study
and discipleship ministry.
In studying the Bible, testimony writing became another
unique spiritual heritage to us. Testimony writing began in
1974 with writing “my life symposium” based on our study of
John chapter 1. John 1:4 says, “In him was life and that life
was the light of men.” Through this word, we learned that Jesus
is the owner of our lives; we cannot be responsible for our
lives or the lives of others. But Jesus keeps them in his hand
and takes care of them. When we accepted this truth, light shone
into our hearts and we gained confidence that we could have
life and have it to the full.
Among those who were moved by the word of God, several
people wrote the grace of God they had received and shared it
in front of people. This is called, “my life symposium.” They
confessed that after being born into this world, their lives
were so full of sorrows, heavy burdens and agonies that they
committed all kinds of sins. But they accepted Jesus as the
owner of their lives. When they accepted Jesus as the owner
of their lives, they were so joyful and wanted to solve the
heavy burdens in their lives. Often their testimony sharing
was interrupted because tears of joy streamed down from their
eyes endlessly. This “my life symposium” continued the next
week, and the week after that, and throughout the semester until
the summer Bible conference. At the summer Bible conference,
we held “my life symposium” at a national scale. Everybody wrote
their own life testimonies, listened to the life testimonies
of others, and accepted Jesus into their widely open hearts.
This fervor flamed into fire at the 1974 German Conference
held in Geneva, Switzerland. Korean nurses went to work in Germany
in order to support their parents, and earn tuitions for their
younger siblings so that they could attend schools. They were
full of hatred and sorrow, and committed sins in order to forget
their troubles. But they confessed all these things and accepted
Jesus as the owner of their lives and shared their life testimonies.
The conference was full of tears, excitement, and life. Among
those who attended this conference, many became missionaries:
Deborah You (Freiburg), Grace Park (Dusseldorf), Mark Park (Bonn),
Maria Hong (Koln), Anna Keum (Koln), Volker & Petra Keller
(Koln). These are the fruit of “my life symposium” and became
the ancestors of faith in Germany and Europe along with Sarah
Lee (Koln), Sarah Chang (Bonn) and Sarah Hong (Heidelberg) who
directed the conference.
Since then, life testimony became an essential part of
the summer Bible conference programs. Not only based on John
1:4, but also on any word of God they had received, people began
to write their life testimonies deeply, confessing their life
problems in them. We know very well what a great role testimony
writing played in campus evangelism.
The most important goal of our ministry is world mission.
We came to hold onto this goal as the fruit of our Bible study.
Whenever we finished the study of the gospels, towards the end
of each gospel we find Jesus’ world mission commands: “Therefore
go and make disciples of all nations...and teaching them to
obey everything I have commanded you” (Mt 28:19,20); “He said
to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news
to all creation” (Mk 16:15); “And beginning with Moses and all
the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the
Scriptures concerning himself” (Lk 24:47); “Take care of my
sheep” (Jn 21:16). In Acts 1 we also heard Jesus’ command, “...Be
my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and
to the ends of the earth” (Ac 1:8). The UBF ancestors of faith
had an absolute attitude towards of the word of God that after
studying the Bible, they must obey it; they must obey every
word of God, even the word of God that they did not like or
which was difficult to obey. Especially, they believed that
they must obey the world mission command that appears at the
end of each gospel as Jesus’ last will.
Initially the goal of our ministry was not world mission.
Rather, we just wanted to study the Bible and obey the word
of God absolutely. In order to obey the word of God, we came
to hold onto the world mission as the goal of our ministry.
In other words, God blessed our ministry because it was not
oriented towards establishing ideologies or businesses, but
it was a pure and spiritual ministry totally centered on the
Bible.
(3) One-to-one ministry
I mentioned earlier that because students became more
and more individualistic since 1968 our group Bible study changed
into one-to-one Bible studies in order to help each student
personally. Here we see another important spirit of UBF ministry,
“spirit of considering one person as precious.” God raised up
one person, Abraham, as the ancestor of faith, helped him to
the end, and established His work of redemption through him.
Christ Jesus also considered one soul as precious as the whole
world. The UBF pioneers learned God’s own heart and way of working
and considered one person as precious and was willing to go
through the pain of childbirth until he or she was born again
as a man or woman of God. Once when I was receiving training
at Chongno UBF, two students came to study the Bible with me
at the same time. So I studied with them. When Dr. Lee saw this,
he gave me severe discipline because I had a one-to-two Bible
study, not a one-to-one Bible study. That was our one-to-one
spirit: that we must study the Bible one-to-one, not one-to-two.
The spirit of considering one person as precious was
reflected not just in one-to-one Bible studies. In order to
help one person, the UBF ancestors suffered loss, spending lots
of time and money, which appeared to be impractical. Because
of the spirit of considering one person as precious, bills at
the student leaders’ meetings must be passed unanimously. Even
if just one person objected, the bill could not be passed. So
in order to persuade one person who objected, they engaged in
heated discussions. Sometimes while one member took the person
outside and try to persuade that person, others just waited
inside.
That was not all. Whenever the pioneers prayed for a
campus, they prayed to raised ‘one ancestor of faith.’ Whatever
they did, they took great pride in becoming an ancestor or laying
the foundation of work. God heard their prayers and raised up
several men as ancestors of faith: Changsun Jun (Dr. John Jun)
and Kyuhae Chung (Dr. Joseph Chung) at Chonnam University Medical
School, Namkyoon Lee (Joshua Lee), Nakseung Rhee (Daniel Rhee)
at Chonnam Unviersity, Kwanok Kim at Chosun University. Among
women, God raised up Sunji Kim (Sunji Jun, the wife of Dr. John
Jun), Chunghan Choi (Esther Chung, the wife of Dr. Joseph Chung),
Dukryae Moon (Rebecca Choi, the wife of Missionary Isaac Choi,
Chicago). Next God raised up Hyunjung Lee (Samuel Lee, Hanyang)
from Jeonju, Choosun Yang (Mark Yang, Anam), Jinhee Lee (Paul
Lee, Kwanak), Kilsoo Kim (David Kim, Yeonhee), Chungsook Choo
(Maria Ahn, Chicago), Sungduk Ahn (Joseph Ahn, Chicago) from
Seoul as the ancestors of faith. Through them, the pioneering
work of each chapter was done.
Even now whenever missionaries and shepherds share their
prayer topics, they don’t fail to mention about raising So-and-So
as an ancestor of a campus. The UBF pioneers felt great comfort
if the ancestor remained though everyone else left the ministry.
On the other hand, they wept bitterly if the ancestor left the
ministry though hundreds of other people remained. I pray that
even though the number of our membership and mission field increase,
we may treasure the spirit of helping one ancestor of faith
to the end and the spirit of one-to-one as our spiritual heritage.
(4) Manger spirit
Though Jesus is the Creator God, he became flesh and
was born in a manger of a stable in order to save all the people
of the world from their sins. Jesus gave up the glory of the
heavenly kingdom, humbled himself and gave even his life as
a ransom for sinners. The UBF ancestors struggled hard to imitate
this Jesus and to dedicate their possessions and youth without
reservation for Jesus and his gospel. Wherever they went, they
were noticed as UBF people. Especially, women did not put any
make-up on their faces, wearing low-hill shoes and carried large
handbags. In their large handbags, they carried their Bible,
Bible study notes and cookies. What distinguished them from
worldly people was not just their outward appearances but also
their noble inner characters, which came from a manger spirit.
As the fruit of manger spirit, our ministry was inclined
to raising up self-supporting lay shepherds and missionaries
who had no religious position and power. Dr. Lee was called
a shepherd as the first person in world history. The title,
“shepherd” meant nothing to worldly people, and had no authority
or power. Because of this title, we suffered a lot. After introducing
ourselves as shepherds, we had to explain what a shepherd meant
for a long time. Because of this unfamiliar title, people misunderstood
us as strange people who belonged to a strange group. Some criticized
us sharply, saying, “You did not graduate from a seminary. How
can you dare to teach the Bible to others?” Others gave us friendly
advice, saying, “Since you are eager to study the Bible and
serve the work of God, why don’t you enter a seminary and be
a pastor? We are willing to help you to do that.” In spite of
all these difficulties, we took great pride in being called
shepherds.
Jesus gave up his heavenly glory and was born in a manger
of a stable. He had no religious title or position such as the
Pharisees or the Sadducees or a Rabbi. Apostle Paul also considered
all positions and whatever was to his profit as rubbish, and
served the work of God as a self-supporting tentmaker missionary.
This is the spirit of self-supporting lay mission, which the
UBF ancestors wanted to have.
Now we know that there are countries that do not allow
a pastor to enter as a missionary, but open their doors to self-supporting
lay missionaries. Thus most theologians kept insisting that
world mission must be done through lay movements. God gave this
direction to our ancestors, and our self-supporting lay missionary
work became an exemplary movement among the Christian world.
In spite of these kinds of fruit and recognition, we, as lay
people, will have to bear all kinds of pains and temptations.
But I pray that we may treasure manger spirit and self-supporting
lay missionary spirit rather than worldly positions, power or
glory.
(5) Giving spirit
At the beginning of UBF ministry, Koreans were accustomed
to receiving something from others. After the American G.I.s
came to Korea, the first English expression they learned was,
“Hello, give me chocolate, give me gum.” The Korean government
could decide its annual budget only after the American Congress
approved of the amount of aid to Korea. In addition, Korea received
aid of a large amount of food and goods. Soon we began to think
that we could not survive without receiving aid from others.
In this atmosphere, the UBF ancestors struggled furiously to
overcome Korean fatalism, to learn the spirit of giving and
to live the life of giving.
Then a remarkable and historical event in UBF history
happened. In 1963, one day when we needed to print something,
Mother Barry suggested that we collect the expenses from students.
Then Dr. Samuel Lee rebuked her, saying, “How do you expect
poor students to pay for it? Since you are rich, you pay for
everything.” But Mother Barry insisted, “We must collect it
for the sake of education.” Their argument continued until Mother
Barry broke into tears.
That night Dr. Samuel Lee could not sleep because he
made a woman cry. He began to read the Bible. He realized a
great lesson that the Bible teaches. God gave his One and Only
Son for sinners. Jesus also came to this world and gave everything
for sinners and finally gave his own life for us. Jesus taught
his disciple a giving spirit, saying, “You give them something
to eat.” Apostle Paul accepted Jesus’ word, “It is more blessed
to give then to receive,” and practiced a giving life and became
a self-supporting missionary.
Upon reading these things, Dr. Samuel Lee realized that
including himself, all Korean church members were full of a
receiving spirit. We received the gospel, received missionaries,
received all kinds of aid, received love and comfort, and were
full of a beggar’s mentality. Our hands shrank towards us like
that of a leper, and knew only how to receive, but did not know
how to give. Therefore, the tide of God’s blessings was flowing
all towards America. In the middle of the night Dr. Samuel Lee
went up to Mt. Mudeung, pulled the grass from its roots all
night and repented with tears. Upon descending from the mountain,
he preached the words of God that he had read the night before
and shouted, “Let’s us stretch out our leper-like, shrunken
hands and give to others, so that the tide of God’s blessing
may turn to Korea.” From that day on, the movement of giving
began. When one ate a cookie, he gave it to others and let them
eat first, instead of eating it all by himself. “Let’s be a
giving person. It is more blessed to give than to receive” became
the daily greeting.
Beginning from that historical night, the UBF members
began to offer world mission offering in order to be self-supporting
financially. In order to teach students Biblical view of money,
we encouraged even newcomers to participate in the world mission
offering. Students were so poor that some saved their bus fare.
One person gave his watch to a pawnshop, others worked part-time
and still another person sold his blood, got money and offered.
In May 1966, the world mission offering work had enrolled
162 members. With this offering we could procure centers at
Jeonju, Daejun, Daegu and Seoul and send out shepherds. There
is a legendary event at the time of pioneering Daejun. One day
Dr. Samuel Lee visited the Daejun UBF center and took out the
door of the Kwangju UBF center and loaded it to a truck in order
to give it to Daejun UBF. One man who saw this got angry at
Dr. Samuel Lee that Dr. Lee took out the door without discussing
with him.
We did not just give that door. Dr. Samuel Lee also gave
his organ to Daejun UBF. At that time, an organ was very rare
and expensive. This organ was his No. 1 property along with
his bookcase. To Dr. Samuel Lee and Missionary Grace A. Lee
who liked music, playing the organ and singing hymns was their
favorite pastime. But Dr. Samuel Lee gave this precious organ
away to Daejun UBF. Missionary Grace A. Lee did not know this
for she was out. Later she felt so sorry for losing the organ.
But Missionary Grace A. Lee bore this kind of pain for the last
40 years as the ancestor of all UBF women.
The door and the organ are preserved well at Daejun UBF.
Anyway, we wanted to help other centers even by giving them
our own center door and our most precious properties. Today
each chapter became independent financially and serves the world
mission work. This was possible because the giving spirit and
faith of the UBF pioneers became the foundation of each chapter.
We also practiced a giving spirit in the relief work.
Every Christmas we visited nursing homes and orphanages, and
made contribution to them. At that time, there were many homeless
people. We prepared dinner and invited them to eat and have
a party. Later we collected relief money for Bangladesh, Ethiopia,
Mexico, Somalia and North Korea. Especially our joy was truly
great when we sent out missionaries to America from whom we
only received aid, and even made an offering to purchase a center
for American students.
This became a turning point in our history: from an aid-receiving
country to a giving country, and from a Korean ministry into
an international ministry, which prays for the whole world.
This became the beginning point of the great work that turned
the tide of God’s blessings to Korea. God blessed us abundantly,
accepting our time, heart devotion and sending missionaries
as our five loaves and two fish. God blessed our ancestors’
giving spirit, enabled us to send out missionaries to 90 nations
and now is using us as a kingdom of priests and a holy nation
towards the world
(6) Soldier spirit and fighting spirit
When we mention the UBF spirit, we cannot omit solider
spirit. In the UBF statements of oath, the phrase, “I am a soldier
of the Lord Christ Jesus” appear twice. From the beginning,
our ministry had a clear identity as the army of the cross of
Jesus and spiritual military academy. We received painful trainings
with joy in order to be a good soldier of Christ Jesus. We also
used military terms such as ‘training,’ ‘battle,’ and ‘conquering’
frequently. There were many kinds of training: Daily Bread training,
message training, testimony writing training, common life training;
there were also many kinds of battles: battle with the word,
prayer battle, testimony writing battle and one-to-one battle.
It was impossible to describe what we were doing without using
these military terminologies. Our ministry was a spiritual ‘fight’
against Satan, a ‘struggle’ against the power of sin in us,
and a ‘challenge’ of faith against impossibilities. In one word,
it was a succession of battles. People of this generation value
fun and ease as important things. Because of this kind of value
system, their souls get sick, and their minds become weak. They
don’t like to be absolute because it requires struggle. Rather,
they choose to be relativistic because it does not require any
struggle. In place of struggle, compromise became a virtue;
rationalization in place of repentance. As a result, they are
perishing, not being able to overcome the temptations of sin
and physical desires. In this generation, God gave us solider
spirit and fighting spirit as our spiritual heritage. I pray
that we may treasure these spirits well so that we may remain
alive and make young students of this generation alive in Christ.
(7) Absolute obedience to the world mission command
As I mentioned earlier, whenever we finished the
study of the gospel, we came to study Jesus’ world mission command.
We wanted to obey other words of God; we also wanted to obey
this command. Therefore, world mission became the goal of our
ministry. We accepted that the world mission command, which
Jesus gave as his last will, was the most important and absolute
word of God. So each chapter dedicated their most important
people--the indispensable, pillar-like people?to world mission.
Moreover, each person gave up their dreams and possessions and
went out to the frontline of world mission.
At the beginning of UBF ministry it was almost impossible
for Koreans to go abroad. So we could not pray for world mission;
we prayed to send out missionaries to nearby Southeast Asian
countries. We believed that God would receive this prayer as
our five loaves and two fish and in the future enable us to
serve world mission. After praying for Southeast Asian countries
for nine years, there was no sign of the work of God. We sent
one person to Singapore but he went away. Nevertheless, we did
not despair, but continued to pray. At last in 1970 God answered
our prayer and opened the door of world mission in Germany and
America.
One of the most remarkable events in UBF world mission
was the 1975 USA Niagara Falls Summer Bible Conference. This
historical event had its roots in one Sunday worship service
in April 1970. On that day, it was very hot. What was worse,
we held the worship service at 3 pm. When Dr. Samuel Lee stood
to deliver the message, he found that many students were dosing.
In order to wake them up from their sleep, he shouted, “Ten
years from now, in 1981, let us have an American summer Bible
conference at Niagara Falls with 200 attendants!” At that time,
there were two or three missionaries in America. So it was impossible
to have this kind of conference in America. Then an unexpected
thing happened. The students woke up, shouted with joy and began
to pray for it earnestly. They knelt down, touching the floor
with their faces and lifting their buttocks high, prayed three
by three or five by five. They continued to pray with this prayer
topics for several weeks. Dr. Samuel Lee began to worry that
this prayer topic might not be answered. He tried to help them
understand that there is a difference between ideal and reality.
But the students were filled with vision and prayed earnestly.
This fire of prayer spread to the 1971 Korean Summer Bible Conference
held in Soongsil University. Then a miracle happened. After
five years, in 1975 we could have the first Niagara Summer Bible
Conference with more than 200 attendants. Through this event,
we believed that though world mission looks impossible, if we
pray persistently, God himself will carry out the work for us.
In 1985 we held the world mission report in Seoul. At this meeting,
Dr. Samuel Lee gave us the prayer topic that by 1995 we might
have an international Bible conference in Moscow. At that time,
the door of the iron curtain of Russia and Eastern European
countries was closed. But by faith we prayed with this prayer
topic earnestly. Then God opened the doors to Russia through
Gorbachev and in 1991 we could have the first Moscow Summer
Bible Conference with 100 attendants. We also could send out
many missionaries to Eastern European countries. Through this,
we learned that when we obey the world mission command, God
himself works things out for us. We also learned how urgently
God wants to accomplish his world salvation plan.
In this way, through the gospel we preached, God raised
up shepherds among young students in America, Canada and Europe.
This may be called the third spiritual awakening. Many Russian
young people, who have been crying out of their wounds and fatalism
because of their parents’ divorce, are growing as disciples
of Jesus and shepherds. Indian students accepted the gospel
and were converted from Hinduism to Christianity. African students
overcame poverty and began to live a powerful life of faith
as Jesus’ disciples.
(8) Earnest Prayer
When we survey the evangelistic student movements
in history, we find that they all began with a prayer meeting
for that generation. At the beginning of UBF ministry, the student
leaders’ meeting was a legistrative branch, but the students
mainly engaged in prayer rather than discussion. So later we
changed the name of the meeting to: the student leaders’ prayer
meeting. At that time, there was no two-by-two prayer. Whenever
we prayed, we had an altogether united prayer no matter how
many people had attended. The meeting used to continue to 10
pm because of the heated discussion. Then the presider declared,
“Let’s finish the meeting with prayer.” Then about 30 people
who sat around the table began to pray one by one. Prayer continued
into the curfew and we could not go home and had to stay at
the center until 4 am, when the curfew was over. Sometimes the
meeting was over by 12 pm. Then we thought that it was better
that way and prayed until 4 am. Since we prayed in the middle
of the night, some of them fell asleep, even snoring while others
were praying. But when their turn came to pray, they woke up
by themselves, got up and prayed with a loud voice. After praying,
some went back to sleep.
Not only during the student leaders’ meeting, but we also
prayed when we went out for visiting. One day we suggested that
since there was no time, we just go visiting without prayer.
Then Mother Barry said, “The busier we are, the more earnestly
we must pray.” So we began to pray. But our prayers were so
earnest that it lasted for several hours. As a result, we could
not go visiting because of the lack of time. For the last 40
years, we spent more time with our eyes closed to pray than
with our eyes opened to do something else. In one sense, our
meeting was not practical. But because of our prayer, God made
everything work out. Since we were poor students, all we could
do was to pray, crying out to God. Then God blessed this prayer
and accomplished a great work of God through us for the last
40 years. Praise God.
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