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On Feb 26, 2015  Kookmin ilbo (a daily newspaper in Korea) posted an article on Dr. John Jun's interview with their reporter.

“When I went to visit our missionaries while serving CME ministry in Muslim countries, I saw that our missionaries were at the risk of their lives in raising disciples under the dark Muslim environment.  My heart was broken and my mouth became speechless as I saw they could not even freely worship God in such conditions,” said Dr. John Jun.

On Feb 16, Dr. John Jun (who is an honorary UBF general director) had an interview with me at the office of Korea UBF center at Jongro, Seoul Korea.  He said, “We need not only to send missionaries but to support them by various means from the rear.”
Since he resigned in 2012, he has been continually serving CME (Continuous Missionary Education) as his secondary ministry.  Currently, he is quite busy in preparing for his visiting CME ministry in Japan, Taiwan and throughout Asia from April to June.

He became a professional in campus mission, and has concentrated on raising disciples and on campus mission for about 50 years since he came to know Christ when he was a freshman (medical school) in 1960. He served God as Korean UBF director for about 28 years from 1977 to 2005 in Korea. After that he also served God as UBF general director at UBF Headquarters in Chicago USA for 6 years. 

When he had resigned from his office, he first considered going out as a medical missionary to Africa as a medical doctor. But he chose to serve CME ministry helping UBF missionaries who are serving campus ministry throughout the world, considering it a more worthy thing than to be a medical missionary.

He said “During the period of my office as Korean UBF director God enabled us to send about 2500 missionaries out to the overseas. Present missionaries who are serving campus ministry throughout the world number about 1600. I am willingly serving CME because I also feel kind of responsible for our UBF missionaries because I love them in Christ Jesus."

For last three years he went to visit missionaries who were sent by UBF to Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Oceania in serving CME ministry.  They all are professional and self-supporting lay missionaries such as medical specialists, professors, businessmen, etc.

Wherever he went he gave them Bible study based on 1 Samuel & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, Galatians for a week and quenched their spiritual thirsty.  He also had a time to hear about their practical agonies of raising children and difficulties in their mission field, comforting them and giving them words of encouragement as well.

He said, “It was a strong response to the CME ministry among the missionaries. I felt motivated when I saw that they had made clear decisions to actively serve God and campus mission, having great vision for world campus mission after finishing the Bible study with me.”

As for him he planned to devote his life to Middle East mission work with earnest hope, which is like the end of the land for gospel sometime after raising a successor who will serve UBF CME after him.

"Though there is no freedom of preaching gospel in the Middle East we must obey Jesus’ command 'Preach the gospel to the ends of the earth' and it is our mission to preach the gospel to the ends of the land as warriors of the Gospel in this generation,” he said.

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by A. Young Kim