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M. David Kang (Honduras)’s Mission Report shared at the Choonchun UBF

(The following one is that M. Samuel Park summarized a mission report which M. David Kang of Honduras delivered at the Choonchun UBF some time ago, looking back on a lay missionary’s life for last twenty years, and translated the summarized one into English.)

He was born as the youngest of a brother-and-sister fivesome in a Christian house in Andong, the Province of Kyungbuk, in 1967. Graduating a high school, he entered Sejong University of Seoul in 1987 with the vision to be a painter. At that time he participated in a UBF world mission conference having be invited by a senior’s member’s invitation. he was impressed enough to vow to be a missionary. After that, he had the Bible study and attended the Sunday worship service at the third Chongro UBF. However, next year(1988), he moved to pioneer the Sejong UBF at the urging of Shepherd Paul Kim(now, the director of the Choonchun UBF) with three other brothers.     

He married Shepherdess Elizabeth in 1994, and next year(1995) they were sent to Guatemala in the Central America. Soon after, he was badly wounded enough to develop hemiplegia, according to the doctor, after being throw from a car during a trip with his friend. But through God’s mercy on him, he could walk miraculously within a month even without an auxiliary medical tool. He came back to Korea, and was newly sent to Paraguay as a missionary in 1998. They prayed, focusing on the Asuncion National University, and began fishing at an Agricultural College. Here he met a veterinary college student, brother Oscar, and he helped him to grow as a shepherd through continuous one to one Bible study. At the time he ws a student; now he is a professor at the college.     

God guided him and his family to Honduras from Paraguay, to be self-supporting missionaries in 2002. This guidance was based on the Lord’s direction through Missionary Sarah Barry at that time- “Let’s pioneer all the 33 countries in the Central and South America!” They sold beverages, candies, and vegetables, opening a grocery store in their living room. Honduras has many unmarried mothers, the literacy rate is 40%, it is a naked country with more organized gangs than policemen, a country with much lawlessness and political corruption, and a poor country economically at that.  

They have kept helping one sister, Henry with the word and prayer, even under such circumstances; they pray that she may be a mother of faith. Most of all, it was a great and meaningful accident to his wife and he that they were under fire from two armed burglars on the 25th of Jan. 2013. This was an accident though which God was with them, looked after them, protected them, even “through the valley of the shadow of death.” God did not let a bullet shoot through his head and let it stay in his head; not a hair on Missionary Elizabeth was harmed. As a lead physician said, “angel’s hands protected them.”     

He was able to leave the next day by simply closing a wound with two stitches and applying ointment to it. He can summarized the meaning of the accident in two ways. First, he has experienced God’s love to love unconditionally; so he has also accepted the Lord’s word to tell ‘Love even your enemies!’ with a mind to obey it all circumstances. 

Second, he has listened to the Lord’s voice to want to live as a shepherd for intellectuals, continually staying in the campus. The day after the accident, a father, a professor of the Department of Education, the Asuncion National University, of a student who attends the same school with his children, visited him at his sickbed. At that time, hearing his words the professor said to him that he could teach a Korean language at the Educational College. Within a month of the accident he began teaching a Korean language class at the Department of Education, so that he might meet diverse students and pray for guiding to their souls to seek the truth among them. 

As time passes by, the accident seems to be forgotten. But it seems to keep influencing  his wife and him as mental trauma. Last June, one of his ears suddenly did not heard, and he needed surgery. he now had an opportunity to recharge, staying in Korea for two months. Three weeks ago, the operation was a success, and now his sense of hearing has completely recovered. Though he had a vision to be a painter, now he meets the Lord Jesus deeply and shines the light of His gospel on souls of the campus and lives a more meaningful and blessed painter’s life, to paint and engrave His image on one soul, one soul. 

His final desire, as Apostle Paul’s confessed, is ‘to have fought the good fight and to have finished  my race, and to have kept the faith(2 Tim 4:7), and so to draw praise from the glorious Lord, “David Kang(Min Ho Kang)! you have fought well!”’ Prayer topics of Honduras UBF are as follows:

1. For Sunday worship message, based on the Genesis, and 15 attendants at this worship.
2. To buy a Bible house near the National University this year.
3. For one Abraham and one Sarah of Faith.
4. For maintenance of public order in Honduras. ​