We visited the Chongju center in Chungcheongbuk-do in Korea to celebrate their new center¡¯s dedication worship service on February 27, 2010. The Chongju center has been pioneering Chungbuk University. This center started from the house church of Francis and Rebecca Lee. Through their struggles to keep fishing and one-to-one Bible study faithfully, many students came to attend their Sunday worship service. Even though they underwent hardship when their second son went to heaven through an accident in 2009, they turned their greatest pain into the most beautiful heart of a shepherd. God blessed their faith and devotion and established many spiritual student leaders and showed them the great work of God. They had been using one of the school¡¯s student center rooms for their Sunday worship service, but as more students came, they were in need of a larger room. So they prayed to God to give them a new center. God blessed them and gave them a new center on the second floor opposite that of a dormitory on the Chungbuk campus.

We attended the worship service to dedicate their new center to God. Dr. Samuel H. Lee delivered the message, ¡°When the Holy Spirit comes on you,¡± based on Acts 1:8. Then Francis Lee shared a report on the pioneering history of this chapter. Their children, Hannah and Joseph, invited their friends to the center for CBF and to worship God every Sunday.

Finally, we prayed that God may bless the Chongju center to be used like the early church, which was powerful in prayer and the word of God through the Holy Spirit. Moreover, may God use this ministry as a source of blessing and power station to build up not only many spiritual leaders, but many missionaries for world mission. We all prayed for the Chongju center to expect a new and great work of God in the future.

In Christ,
Dr. Samuel H Lee