April, 2026
Dear fellow laborers in Christ,
Thank you for your prayers and concerns in Christ. I am thankful for God’s grace that enables me to help my mother as she receives rehabilitation therapy and other examinations for the cancer. She moves around on a wheelchair and needs help in almost everything in her daily routine. We move together to the hospital, acupuncture therapy, market, church and so on. I am there to push her wheelchair.
One day in the afternoon, we decided to have lunch out. Because my mother has a very poor appetite, she struggled with eating. I had hoped that the food in a restaurant might bring some appetite back to her. As we entered, I saw an elderly man having lunch. He was alone at his table, busy eating. I guessed he was so hungry. I settled in the next table, which was empty at that time. As for me, all my mind was to assist my mother taking the food, talking to her, busy handling dishes, the spoon and chopsticks. I didn’t even notice that the man had finished his meal and left his table. The owner of the restaurant, as she cleaned the table, informed me that the man had paid for our food. I was so surprised! A complete stranger made such a kind gesture to encourage us. Then, I came to notice people’s eyes were on us. And if so, what about God seeing us? Through this event, I have learned a new way how to encourage someone struggling and trying their best.
Some of my Junior Youth and BCEA graduates do send greetings through WhatsApp. Recently I received a greeting from “S”, who used to attend the Junior Youth Fellowship. When I met her for the first time at the campus church, she was just playful and was without focus in her life. I rarely heard good comments of her. Well, I don’t know what moved my heart. I talked to her and agreed to give some help for her school fees. Surprisingly enough, a big change occurred in her attitude. She was the first to come to Bible reading. She actively and willingly participated in all the Junior Youth activities. I assumed that, with her poor family and her life in the slum, she had been without hope. The help, though it was small, seemed to encourage her and she took it with gratitude. When I met her last October, she had finished a course on catering and was looking for a job. Then, when “S” sent greetings through WhatsApp, she informed me that she was in Tanzania working as a “nanny”. Her situation took her far away from her family and her country. However, the way she described her life there, she expressed hope and faith in the Lord. “O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. Jeremiah 10:23”
The influence of the war in the Middle East can be sensed here in this city of Busan. For example, it brought the increase of price of fuel, the lack of standard plastic garbage bags,
and so on. It has affected many other things in various areas in different nations. Regardless, the gloomy winter is gone and spring, with cherry trees in full bloom, is in the city of Busan. The sun rises and the sun sets. People continue with their regular living, and I continue with my daily routine to help my mother around. “And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. Ruth 2:2-3.” Ruth continued her routine to make her living. In such a routine, God worked providentially that she could work on the field of Boaz. I will trust in His leading and His will through the routine currently given to me.
Friends, I request your prayers for the Junior youth in the BCEA campus church, that they will grow in the knowledge of God and face all circumstances with faith in God.
In Christ,
Bai, Eun Young