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Korea UBF
December 5, 2013

The 2013 Fall Korean Staff Conference was held at Hanwha Resort in Deajun-ChungNam from Oct. 28 - 30 with 80 attendants including 5 missionaries and 3 shepherds from Nigeria. We had Bible studies from Colossians and Psalms, a special lecture and testimony sharing.

Through Colossians Bible study we learned that Jesus is the beginning of all things and has the supremacy. Today due to the influence of the relativism of our postmodern culture people ask why Jesus is the only way of salvation. Some criticize that this is arbitrary. We, however, learned that Jesus is the reflection of God himself. He is the beginning of all things and the church as He is the Creator God and has the supremacy. Through Psalm 40 we meditated on his grace and gave thanks to God for his salvation from the pit of sin and death throughout the year and praise him with new songs and new hearts.

Shepherd Luke Lee form Sangdo UBF gave a lecture titled “Consultation for spiritual growth of those who have the tendency of self attachment." These days there are many who behave like a princess or prince because of enjoying the growth of the economy and the decrease in the number of children. Self-attachment causes a person to be self-centered and not care about others. It is the result of being apart from God and hinders one’s spiritual growth. True love is not self-attachment, but to love God and others. For this, it is necessary to deny ourselves. Then, we can grow. Through the lecture, we looked back on ourselves and came to have a sense of problem to help these kinds of sheep.

Shepherd Duke from Yaba Tech, Nigeria shared his life testimony. His father has five wives and his mother is the third wife of his father. When he was healed from a hunched back, he began to commit sins on a full scale. He fell into all kinds of adulterous and idolatrous sins. After he got into Yaba Tech, however, he was invited to UBF Bible study. At the Christmas conference in 2003, he accepted Gen.12:1, 2 and decided to be a source of blessing for Nigeria. Afterward, he married by faith in spite of his family's severe opposition and now he serves Yaba Tech ministry as a full time shepherd. He prays for Nigerian spiritual take-off starting from this coming Christmas conference.

Through the FKSC, all staff shepherds had a wonderful fellowship and took rest climbing Chil-Gab Mountain passing through some sloping bridges and walking along the seashore while having a conversation in groups of two and three. Shepherd David Kim, the Korean UBF director, strongly encouraged us to give ourselves fully to serve the rest of the fall campus ministry, for God wants us to focus on Him and preach the gospel of Jesus in our time. We pray that God may give the word of God to all staff shepherds to serve the ministry of the Word and disciple-making ministry in each campus.