Off to India!

[Kyeon Heo]

Namaste! 

Hello everyone! I will be off to India in 12 hours. 

Kinda sounds crazy but this winter, I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with my time off after my semester ended. However, an opportunity came up where the church I currently attend were planning on going to India. India was not even in my mind 2 months back but suddenly things came up at church were the pastor no longer was able to go and lead the team. So, the people who had originally planned to go were not able to go as well. Long story short, I somehow got involved with this India missions and we've been meeting and training together for the past 1.5months. 

I've realized that to become a leader, I cannot lead and expect the members to follow but to really lay down all of my ambition, pride, and selfishness before the cross and ask Him to lead through me. This has been a tremendous lesson for me to learn as in the beginning, I was always stressed and bitter that our team was not where I thought we should be. However, as time passed, God began to humble me and helped me to realize that I cant, but he CAN! 

We will be going to a place called Surat, India where a Korean missionary that our pastor has been supporting for the past 8 years is serving at. We'll mainly be involved with kid's ministry as we planned a 3-day bible camp consisting of skits, songs/body motions, crafts, and english lessons. We'll also be visiting a few public schools to teach English. We cannot openly share the gospel in those schools but please pray for us that we'll still be able to show the love of Christ as we love on them. Also, we'll be visiting a small village church plant where I've been asked to share a message. As much as I feel inadequate, I want to ask for your prayers that I may be humble yet bold before the word as I simply want to be used as a transparent channel that He uses to bless the congregation. 

Please pray for us as we get ready to leave tomorrow (1/28 @ 1:45pm Korean Time)

The 1st part of the trip will end on 2/9 where 5 out of our 8 team members will come back to Korea and the rest of us will be traveling to Nepal and Sri Lanka to visit other churches and sites as well. 

My biggest personal prayer request: I don't want this to be just another annual trip that I take to get out of Korea. I want everything that we do, everything about this trip to glorify God. I don't want anything to hinder God's glory; not my pride, my selfishness, my desires, distractions, etc.  This might be my last trip before I come back to the states in the summer so please pray for me that God will use this trip to teach me, mold me, and make me more like Him :)

thank you all for your prayers!

I'll email when I get back in March!

Kyeon