KCCC Summer Missions Part 1: The Challenge

On Friday night, students from universities all over Southern California gathered at Kumran Church (Gardena) to participate in the first step of KCCC’s summer missions program (Project Friendship 2014: Light). Over a hundred students gathered at this Mission Rally Gethsemane prayer to hear testimonies and to learn more about what it means to be a student missionary.

After worship, Bobby Oh, a senior staff at KCCC LA came up to present God’s message. The theme passage for that night was Luke chapter 5, the well-known story of the paralyzed man. The paralyzed man did not have the ability to go to Christ himself. Instead it was his friends who had to take the initiative and the step of faith to deliver him to the Lord for healing and forgiveness of his sins. In the same way, there is no Christian in this room that came to Christ by his or her own ability – there was someone who desperately prayed for their salvation, or directly shared the Gospel with them.

On that note, Bobby Oh GSN (KCCC staff) talked about how everyone is definitely called to go and share the Gospel to the ends of the earth. To further encourage the students, he shared a small testimony about the first time he himself went on missions for the first time to Cambodia. He said he was already out of school and working at that time, and that he had to ask his boss for six weeks of absence. He took a step of faith, and the HR had given him six weeks of paid absence. Applause flooded the sanctuary.

The sanctuary of Kumran Church was decorated with flags of the 15 countries KCCC will be sending teams to along with cards listing specific prayer requests for the respective nations. The students and staff took the time to go around the different flags and to pray for them, especially the ones they might have a heart for visiting over the summer.

After the event was over, many students went to the booths with computers to register for Project Friendship. KCCC will be having its first training on the 23rd of March, and will be sending student missionaries to 15 countries.