Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
My Sabbatical Mission Trip to Thailand
In just a month from now, my family and I will be leaving Houston to go to Thailand for a sabbatical mission trip. It has already been eleven and a half years since I came to Seoul Baptist Church of Houston and began serving, first as the youth pastor, then the head pastor of New Life. During sabbaticals our pastoral staff can choose to do one of the following:
1. Continue education for a semester on a full-time basis
2. Interne at another church on a full-time basis
3. Do missions work
As you can see, the purpose of the sabbatical is not to rest but to equip and ...
Staff Movement
Mrs. Seo, our children's pastor, came to Seoul Baptist in 1994, one year after me. We have worked together for the last 12 years. The time has come where she wants to retire in April next year. She hasn't yet reached retirement age, but she wants to go out as a missionary before she gets older.
Her co-worker in the children's department, Pastor Lim, will also be leaving Seoul Baptist. He will be going to the Korean First Baptist Church of San Jose, the church I served at before coming to Houston, where he will be in charge of the children's department. Right now he is in ...
Join House Churches When You Move
The house church movement is now a tidal wave. So many people are trying to attend house church seminars that we can't accommodate them all. The Korean Baptist Church of Atlanta held seminars for lay leaders two weeks in a row because they didn't have the heart to turn away so many people. A seminar for lay-people scheduled for June at the Ark Mission Church in Sacramento had so many applicants that they stopped accepting applications. They also decided to hold the seminar for two consecutive weeks in order to accommodate those who had already applied. Our church may also ...
No Discrimination
My grandfather was one of 6 martyrs produced by the Evangelical Holiness Church of Korea. He was kidnapped by the North Korean regime and presumably murdered. People who knew him remembered him as a person who tried to live in strict accordance to the Bible. For example, he reserved the best seats in the sanctuary, usually the first few rows in front, because James 2:1-4 instructs that the poor should not be discriminated against the rich.
I must be have been influenced by my late grandfather because I have the same conviction, that nobody should be favored or discrimi...
People Have Been Complaining
"People have been complaining about the following things." A church member recently sent me an email listing all the bad things people are allegedly saying about our church. I usually ignore emails like these because the writers typically present their own opinions as things other people are saying. But I felt like this wasn't true in this case and decided to take action.
One complaint he mentioned concerns our policy of not allowing members of other churches to join our church. He wrote that people complain about our favoritism in allowing only certain people to ...
Evaluating Our House Churches
I am taking a six-month sabbatical at the end of this year. I will be spending the first half of my sabbatical helping Korean-American churches convert to house churches by leading revival meetings and seminars, and spending the second half helping churches in Korea. Before I take my sabbatical I want to evaluate how our house churches are doing and help shepherds improve their ministry skills.
It's a sad thing to live in the past. I cannot help but feel sorry for people when I visit Europe. Most countries there live off their heritage. Take France for example. Despite ...
Pastor’s Requests to All the Parents of JCS
I praise God for what has been taking place in our children ministry, Joshua Cross Stars (JCS), over the past two years. Pastor Jaemo has been working very hard to develop and put structure and system into this ministry and we are reaping and enjoying the benefits of his and many faithful volunteers labor in the Lord. Let's remember to pray regularly for JCS, Pastor Jaemo and his family and volunteers.
In order for us to continue to have a great children's ministry here at New Life, however, we the parents must do our part as faithfully as we can realizing the signif...