Pastor James' Blog

The team just left for the airport and will soon be in the US!
Thank you everyone for reading the journeys of our Korea Mission Team.  Thank you more so for your prayers and support!  We hope that we were faithful ambassadors of Higher Connection Church and especially of God Almighty!
Our mission team will be preparing [...]

Hwalih Han:
It’s almost 5 am Saturday morning as I’m writing this - so I ask you to forgive the random string of thoughts and grammatical errors!  We just finished packing and cleaning and almost everyone has fallen asleep awaiting our departure at 7 am in the morning.   This past 2 weeks flew by faster than I expected and [...]

Brian Chen:
It’s hard to believe that the mission is finally winding down to a close. The graduation ceremony last night was truly an evening overflowing with joy. It was not only from proud parents but also of servants—separated by distance, culture, and language but unified by Spirit—who worked so wholeheartedly together looking on at a [...]

Rebecca Kim:
~The Last Day of Teaching~
Most of us went to bed past 1:00 while working on projects for the graduation ceremony and the last day of class with our kids.
But, that was okay, because most of us slept again after morning prayer.  We also did laundry yesterday (finally), but forgot that we needed lots of [...]

Kristen Chang:
As our penultimate day of teaching began, God reminded me of the fundamentals of serving others. As with most days, my internal alarm woke me up around 3am to join members of Immanuel Church in their 5am Morning Prayer service. Normally, I read Korean lyrics and sing hymns without understanding, hypothesize about passages via [...]

Pastor Han Oh:
Today was a short teaching day. We had the morning (until lunch time) to teach the kids and spent the rest of the day out. It was a new week and the number of children went down from the previous week. We were thankful that we were not overwhelmed, but also sad because [...]

Hwalih Han:
I can’t believe our team has been here for over a week, though it feels longer since everyday is jam-packed. Some updates since the last entry - We had a 9 pm Friday night service where Pastor James preached from Joel 2 about functioning in the spiritual as opposed to the intellectual. When it [...]