Stigma

Parting with a loved one is the greatest pain. But those who have the hope of the resurrection consider pain and suffering to be a gift, because they come to know Jesus Christ and have the hope of the resurrection. So death becomes hope. It is because we are on a journey that will ultimately take us to the long-awaited heaven after our life on earth. Through the lives of Cheon Jeong-eun, who has passed the 120th round of chemotherapy, Lee Dong-won, who lost his beloved son, Jeong Ae-suk, who lost her husband, and Lee O-young, who lost her daughter and also passed away... and the apostle Thomas and the disciples of the early church, we learn how people with the hope of resurrection lived.

Parting with a loved one is the greatest pain. But those who have the hope of the resurrection consider pain and suffering to be a gift, because they come to know Jesus Christ and have the hope of the resurrection. So death becomes hope. It is because we are on a journey that will ultimately take us to the long-awaited heaven after our life on earth. Through the lives of Cheon Jeong-eun, who has passed the 120th round of chemotherapy, Lee Dong-won, who lost his beloved son, Jeong Ae-suk, who lost her husband, and Lee O-young, who lost her daughter and also passed away... and the apostle Thomas and the disciples of the early church, we learn how people with the hope of resurrection lived.

Seventy years ago, there was a person who stole tears while looking at the Korean War orphan dying in hunger and cold with the heart of his father. It was Everett Swanson (1913-1965). Compassion, which he started out of compassion for Korean War orphans, has provided miracles to more than 100,000 Korean children, including Kathy, a Korean orphan. Also, his father's heart that he harbored flowed toward children all over the world. Messod, a Rwandan boy, lost his father in 1994 Hwang Tae-hwan, a South Korean father who lost his son in 2023 A relay of love that changes the world with one person's power and has a good influence, it is a story of hope and emotion in which the giver and the receiver grow together.

The Korean church cannot forget the sermon of Pastor Ok Han-heum, which was proclaimed at the 100th anniversary of Daebuheung in Pyongyang on July 8, 2007.