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Dr. Moses Chung finished Guatemala CME, and left for Chicago yesterday March, 23rd. We are deeply thankful for Dr. Chung and his wife M. Rebecca Chung, who were willing to give up their precious time. We also thank Dr. John Jun, who asked him for the lectures. We learned the following from this CME.

     First, through an early and medieval Church, we widened the horizon to see history, and learned direction from it. Our meeting did not usually concern theology, and I also thought negatively of the lecture on Church History; although the theology has been the topic of study, due to social pressures, it has been considered work far away from our meeting. However, I thought again how I and our meeting are to serve God’s work in a dark age, through Dr. Chung’s Biblical, scientific, and objective lectures, based on facts, and the analyses on how the facts have to be applied to us.   

     Thank God that as the years go on he has let me realize that basic values, like Bible-centeredness, campus mission, disciple-making, world mission, etc. are really precious and treasure-like. However, I learned that we have to keep taking our precious legacy, spirit, and mission to be important, and maintaining them, for us to hold and succeed through them in God’s redemptive history. Further, I also learned that we have to keep studying, researching, practicing in order to be meeting, family, and church, based on the Bible. May God raise up lots of historians and Bible teachers, like Dr. Chung, that he may make the meeting be deeply-rooted, to succeed traditions of faith and history ceaselessly like Jews through absolute obedience to words and right historical consciousness.  

  I personally have a desire to keep loving and researching the words, through Dr. Chung’s depth and passions on the Bible and learning so that I may be going to always love the words, prayers, and reading in order to edify Christian spirituality although self-supporting missionary.

       Second, we learned a faith of seniors in our meeting, through two missionaries’ lives. I was astonished to listen that M. Rebecca Chung had been one of ancestors among nurse-missionaries in Chicago, and M. Moses Chung had been one of missionaries to go to the U.S in the 1970s. During that time, I confess that we take one to be only a scholar, and the other to be a woman missionary, who has co-worked silently although we visited Chicago for one month, not knowing her. I thank once again that he has granted us many ancestors of faith, who are how sacrificial, great, and diverse. May God bless and use preciously all ancestors of faith continuously ! (M. Josué Ham).