Ministries
IHOP worship leader Jon Thurlow joined hundreds of mostly Korean American college students and young adults in worship during the recent event, ‘Worship Nights with Jon Thurlow,’ hosted at Grace Ministries International (GMI), one of the largest Korean churches in Southern California.READ MORE
Church
Printouts of articles detailing the statistics and demographics on the Rowland Heights community are taped along the office walls of Pastor Phil Kim, the current lead pastor of The Home Church. It's some of the research he's done on the community as he considered how his church could best engage the people in it, he said. Kim, who has long been an English ministry pastor at a Korean immigrant church, is now aiming to reach the local community’s diverse demographic of people through the ministry.READ MORE
Society
A health conference specifically catered towards the needs of Korean Americans will be taking place for the first time in Los Angeles. The “First Annual Korean American Health Conference 2016,” which will be hosted by the Korean American Graduate Medical Association, came about as a coalition of 13 organizations — including KHEIR (Korean American Health Education Information and Research) Clinic, the Korean American Coalition (KAC), Koreatown Youth and Community Center (KYCC) — saw the need for deeper research on the health concerns and needs of Korean Americans.READ MORE
World
The condition of Reverend Hyeon Soo Lim, Korean Canadian pastor who was sentenced to hard labor for life in North Korea, was released to the public on January 10 through an interview with CNN. Lim said he continues to pray everyday, and that he is at peace regardless of the outcome.READ MORE
Ministries
For the first time, a Korean Christian documentary film about homosexuality has been produced and released late last year: “I Am No Longer Gay.”Suffice to say, the film has been garnering much attention from the Korean public all over the world. But the director, Brian Kim, chose to have the film’s first ever screening not in South Korea, where most of the research and interviewing was completed, but in America.READ MORE
Church
Reverend Ronnie Park credits his deep love for the Korean immigrant church to the positive models that he found in older Korean pastors throughout his professional and personal life. Park is the lead pastor of the English congregation at Good Stewards Church.READ MORE
Ministries
Over a thousand youth and college students gathered in San Diego from Monday to Thursday for Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC)’s annual missions conference, called ‘Higher Calling Conference.’ Over the past several years, the conference has seen progressively more involvement from local churches in attending and leading the conference.READ MORE
World
An online petition demanding the release of Korean Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim from imprisonment in North Korea was started on December 16, and as of December 23, the petition has over 37,000 signatures.READ MORE
Ministries
Over a thousand youth and college students gathered in San Diego on Monday for Korea Campus Crusade (KCCC)’s annual ‘Higher Calling Conference,’ a conference characterized by its focus on missions.READ MORE
Ministries
Leaders of a Jewish synagogue and a Christian church in Los Angeles are collaborating to give their youth an educational experience of other faith communities in the city. Temple Israel of Hollywood and Los Angeles Christian Presbyterian Church started this collaboration with a joint youth experience on December 6, during which a group of 13 eighth grade students from Temple Israel visited the youth service at LACPC.READ MORE
Church
Pastor James Kwak is one whose perspective of his role in the Korean immigrant church has changed completely over his eight-year career – from having desired independence from the immigrant church, to now embracing and wanting to stay within it.READ MORE
Church
Local churches in Southern California are collaborating once again to host the fourth annual SOLA Conference, a conference for college students led and organized by leaders of various local churches rather than a single church, para-church or campus ministry. The upcoming conference will be centered on the theme, “Light After Darkness,” and will explore a wide spectrum of issues that collegians may be struggling with...READ MORE
“I’ve been through their experiences -- having been a youth pastor, a college pastor, and an EM (English ministry) pastor before. I know their struggles and needs. So I just try my best to be their friend, someone who can listen to their worries.” Such was Reverend Nathan Kim’s response when asked his approach to being a senior pastor.READ MORE
Society
A group of some 20 Korean Christian leaders gathered at the Olympic station of the Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday morning to discuss potential ways that they could partner with the community leaders to address the issue of homelessness in the city.READ MORE
Mission
Missionaries’ kids are raising funds again this year in hopes to help provide the needs of younger missionaries’ kids as they prepare for college and their future careers. This group of missionaries’ kids, also known colloquially as “MK”s, are a part of mKommit, a group which has been providing mentorship and scholarships since 2013 to help younger MKs with emotional and financial needs as they attend college in the U.S.READ MORE
The Sunday Assembly, also known as the “Atheist Church”, based in the United Kingdom is scheduled to have its first global assembly. The “church” is also known to have a branch and ...
World May 06, 2014 02:34 AM EDTThe leaders of the DPRK have been making very strong statements regarding human rights. A representative from the North Korean government has stated in a speech that the U.S. is a ‘living ...
World May 08, 2014 03:08 AM EDT
