Rev. Hye Kyung Kim

 Christian Outreach Superintendent KWCTU

Rev. Irja Eskelinen, Christian Outreach Superintendent WWCTU

Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior in the blessed season of the Pentecost! We hear the earnest exhortation of Paul, who says, "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit." (Eph. 5:18) KWCTU has been sending our yearly report to all the world officers, superintendents, and national presidents each Christmas, with KWCTU calendars, printed with the temperance messages.  As the 40th World convention in Canada, coming closer, I thank you that you remind us to prepare our triannual report. I hereby send you our Christian Outreach triannual report to you.

 

The Christian Outreach Department Report for 40th Triannual World Convention, Canada

 

   From 2013 to 2016, the Christian Outreach Department, led by the Superintendent, Mrs. Hye Kyoung Kim, held Monthly Bible Study at the KWCTU headquarter, leading new people to Christ, helping them also to join in the temperance work. Rev. Dong Soo Han, Rev. Nam Hyun Cho, Rev. Yong Keun Chang, in turn, led Bible Studies based on The Westminster Confession of Faith and on The Institute of the Christian Religion by John Calvin.

 

   KWCTU has kept supporting Korean missionaries overseas to organize new WCTU unions or KWCTU chapters in the mission fields: Rev. Ji Cheul Jung and Mrs. Mi Ja Hahn in Cambodia, Rev. Kwang Soo Choi and Mrs. Hyun Sook Lee in Indonesia, Mrs. Hyun Sook Lee, having served for 9 years as the superintendent of the Sorcial Service Department of the WWCTU, Rev. Jung Ha Won and Mrs. Jung Ah Sohn who serves children in slums in Mumbai, India, Mr. Kyungmoo Lee and Mrs. Ae Kyung Kim in Kyrgyzstan, Ms. Michelle Myung Hee Goh in Nepal, and Mr. Jae Chul Kim and Mrs. Hyun Joo Ha in Vietnam. Dr. Jung Joo Kim, Field Worker for the Korean missionaries overseas, has put efforts to reach out to them together with NZKWCTU.  New KWCTU pamphlets was designed by Mrs. Ye Jin Kim of NZKWCTU. Mrs. Hyun Kyung Kim, president and the officers of NZKWCTU, after their participation in the 39th World Convention in 2013 in Australia, actively promoted the temperance work among the islanders, Mrs. Young Ah Jung, now serving as the 2nd president of NZKWCTU. Mrs. Hye Kyung Kim, chaplain of Bosung Girls' High School, led a group of students on mission trips to Nepal, Mongolia, and other county, every August. At every KWCTU monthly meetings, 5- 7 pastors always join to intercede for the temperance work.

 

   In the year 2014, Mrs. Sang Eun Kim, trustee of KWCTU, who had moved to Oklahoma City in Oklahoma, U.S.A. in 2013, formed a KWCTU Chapter in the U.S.A.. There, she led a Recovery Program since 2013 with college students. Now she is meeting for Bible study (QT) once a week. Another RP is opened for 5 Mexican women with temperance education. No Drinking and No Smoking Temperance Campaign was carried out on the street with her own kids. Two Temperance Seminars on FAS and Health were held at churches both in Oklahoma City and in San Francisco in 2014. KWCTU donated Christian books for Youth Detention Center near Oklahoma City and San Francisco Korean Smyrna Methodist Church for Stanford University students.

 KWCTU has kept supporting missionaries who organized new WCTU unions such as Mrs. Yang Jin Kim, the previous principal of the KWCTU day care center in Korea, who is now serving as missionary in Senegal. The missionaries keep sending to KWCTU amazing news of the mission field where the Gospel preaching and the temperance message is so much in need. Australia KWCTU chapter celebrated her 20th anniversary on Dec. 21, 2014 at a church, with concert, near Sydney. We thank her president Mrs. Young Sook Paik for her sincere efforts to serve the Korean Church communities in Sydney as a whole so faithfully and so long with temperance message.

  

  In the year 2015, the Christian Outreach Department of KWCTU may highlight how she has been sharing the Gospel and the temperance message among soldiers in Korea. Since 2011, the special trustee of KWCTU, Chairman of Daesung Group, Mr. Younghoon David Kim, has kept sending each month, 300 books to 20 churches in the military service, aiming to send to all its 1004 churches. The staffs of Mission Society for the soldiers in the Military Service came to KWCTU Hall to report how the soldiers enjoy reading Christian books and get much help from the temperance education. Dr. Jung Joo Kim in response wrote an article on "The Importance of Prevention of FAS through Total Abstinence" in the Christian Military Newspaper, which has over 600,000 Korean soldiers as its readers. KWCTU supported some new missionaries such as Rev. Hae Sook Park and Rev. Yune Hyung Choi, who held a temperance seminar at a high school, which was built mainly to serve the North Korean defectors in China, Rev. Jae Yun You and Mrs. Young Sook Jun who meet with Gypsies in Wales, England. Rev.

Keum Kon Kim, who reaches out to the ministry for the addicts in Israel, Rev. Choong Keun Yang in Paraguay, Mrs. Mi Kyung Lee in Tanzania, and Rev. Chun Hee Won and Mrs. Nan Joo Kim in Vanuatu,  and White Ribbon sisters in Guatemala. You will hear more news from our KWCTU homepage, renewedly recently (kwctu.org). May the Lord bless the World Convention with His very presence, filling all its partiipants to praise the Lord our God in Trinity with the outpouring of His Holy Spirit. 1 John 4:8 "God is love."