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It’s hard to believe, but there’s only one full day left of our time in Seoul (Wednesday). It has been a great experience, overall. In fact, I told Joleen Monday morning (right before we went to visit Ethan) that if we went home now, this would have been a great trip/vacation. But, of course, that’s … Read more
If you haven’t read the previous post (First Hours with Ethan) yet, please do so. In that post, I mentioned attending a small group gathering of people from The Holy Flames Methodist Church (BTW, the Methodist churches in Korea are part of the Korean Methodist Church; I’m not accidentally leaving out the word “United”). Originally, … Read more
You may want to take a moment and read and/or review a post we wrote a week ago Sunday called, The Takeaway, which looked ahead to the time we would pick up our baby and take him from those he believes to be his family. We’ve had Ethan now for about 6.5 hours. He’s sleeping … Read more
One of the greatest challenges in ministry is connecting the gospel to the surrounding culture. I wonder if there was a time in US history when this was an easier task, back when the nation was young. In such a time, a one-size-fits-all approach worked fairly well. IOW, a Methodist church in one place could … Read more
Surprise! Before we left the office with Ethan’s social worker, we learned that we will get Ethan tomorrow at 4:00pm (2:00am EST)! Based on what we were told, we expected to get him at the end of our stay, on the way to the airport. The only thing we can figure is that we have … Read more
Yesterday was a long day. Our host/driver from Holy Flames picked us up at the guest house at 7:30 am and we spent much of the day at his church. Around 3:30 pm, he handed us off to our guides/hosts at Kwanglim, who gave us a church tour, took us to dinner, then dropped us … Read more
The time to meet Ethan is getting close, and may be closer than you think! As Sunday closes for us in Seoul, our friends and family in the Eastern Time Zone are just beginning their Sunday. That means that as we get up in the morning and go to meet Ethan, Sunday will be coming … Read more
Saturday and Sunday were jammed packed days, as we spent time with pastors and church staff of two different Methodist churches in and around Seoul. On Saturday, one pastor and his family took us to Insa-dong, one of the main shopping districts in Seoul, where we had our first Korean food. Afterward, we toured Gyeongbokgung … Read more
We took a number of photos today — at Insadong, at Gyeongbokgung Palace, and various other shots. We’re posting several here. You should be able to click on any one of them, then click on “next” and/or “previous” underneath the photo to cycle through all nine, which appear in random order. Let us know if … Read more