05/04/2025
On the "What's on your mind, Deborah?" section of Facebook, it came up, and I couldn't resist sharing this post. 😄
My husband, Pastor Park, preached the gospel of God at the Brooklyn Chinese Church on Sunday, the 27th and 28th. On the 29th, he took a flight to Japan at 1:25 AM, so I gave him a ride to Kennedy Airport on the night of the 28th.
From the 30th, he preached the gospel at the Kobe Minatogawa Evangelistic Center, and on Saturday morning, he preached at Agape Chapel. Then, again at 7 PM, he preached at the Minatogawa Evangelistic Center. As the Holy Spirit led, Japanese people came forward, confessing their ancestors' sins, even though they themselves had not committed them. They repented and followed along in confession. The Holy Spirit poured out a spirit of repentance, and there were amazing events of repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation among the nations.
Although I wasn't there to see it in person, my husband shared the story with me briefly over a video call, and I got teary-eyed. However, the missionary there sent my husband a detailed testimony, and I wanted to share it with my Facebook friends (even though I should be getting to bed quickly for tomorrow’s Sunday service). So, here I am, typing this on the computer. It’s a bit long, but please make sure to read it carefully.
[Pastor~
This is Park Eun-kyung, who participated in the Revival of the Evangelist Minatogawa Kobe, Japan.
I have been greatly blessed by the words of grace and the history of the Holy Spirit during the Holy Communion.
It's been 15 years since I came to Japan as a missionary, but as time went by, it was too lonely and difficult for me to work in Japan, which is like this barren wasteland stone field. When I first came to Japan, my passion gradually disappeared, and I became more of a work-oriented ministry than a God-oriented one, so I must have been tired, tired, and even got sick due to various wounds. Thyroid cancer. That's also malicious. Even after three surgeries, it continues to spread and there are about 6nm left, but since the organizer of life is God, I forget that I am sick day by day and try to live my daily life as usual with the mind that I can go to heaven at any time.
In the meantime, I realized and learned the will of God who gave me a disease while repenting and praying, but through the disease, I returned to God, reflected on my life and attitude so far, and realized God's will a little bit.
Thankfully, until yesterday, five years after the hospital where I first operated due to my illness, God attached weak and sick people like me to listen to each other's stories, comfort, and pray.
Among the sisters who attended yesterday's congregation, I had surgery for thyroid cancer, some for bowel problems several times, and some for uterine and heart surgery, and some for sisters who could not stand or breathe, talked to each other, talked about God who worked in the midst of weakness, and cried and prayed together.
Yesterday, on the last night of the Holy Communion, some of them went back and stayed, and those who continued to talk shared the grace they received during this Holy Communion, prayed for each other again, and shed hot tears to comfort and strength.
There were people who received such great grace for the first time this time, and there was great emotion and grace when the Japanese came out and repented of Japan's sins of colonial rule over Asian countries in the past and prayed for forgiveness and reconciliation. the crime committed by our ancestors The crime of forcing a special shrine visit.
The Japanese church needs the same repentance as yesterday first. I sincerely hope that Japanese Christians will be able to realize the seriousness of this sin committed by their ancestors and repent with humility.
I hope you can realize for sure that there is no revival without repentance and apology! Most Japanese people do not know the reality of brutal history because they only learn colonial rule literally and distorted content in single-circulated history textbooks.
The fact that the U.S. atomic bombs fell on Nagasaki and Hiroshima and ended the war is just a victim, and Asia, where Japan caused a lot of damage, is indifferent and has no information.
Yesterday, one of the Japanese sisters fell on the floor and apologized, and the gray-haired old lady shed tears and said sorry and sorry, which was really touching. If it weren't for this opportunity, there would be almost no experience like this at the Botoi Japanese Church.
The Chinese character Kobe
It means 神 (God). It means 戸 (door, entrance to a building. House. It means counting houses).
This revival church is the door to God. God's door opens in Kobe, which means entrance! I hope the door to the Japanese revival will open! Hallelujah!! Japan's revival began with the Minatogawa Evangelical Church! Hallelujah!!!
Minatogawa Evangelist, a member of the Japanese Evangelist Church established 120 years ago by British missionaries in Japan, is a church where numerous souls have been saved, devotees have been produced, and the history of the Holy Spirit and the heat of evangelism have been hot over 100 years. As time went by, the grace and heat gradually cooled down, and now there are more Chinese Koreans, not Japanese, but Chinese Koreans, but through yesterday's rally, Korea, China, and Japan were forgiven, forgiven, reconciled, and loved each other. Through the times of recovery, I expected God's grace to this Japanese land once again. In the meantime, everyone has been in various ministries, health and finance through human relationships. It was difficult for each individual due to various problems, but through prayers and words, everyone gained new strength. Hallelujah!
Yesterday alone, I received three prayer responses. Hallelujah! God responded to my long prayers and convinced me that I could start a new ministry by being prayed by the pastor, so I am now looking forward to the beginning of the ministry boldly. Hallelujah!
Last night, everyone went back and shared a gracious story and prayed with the remaining people, and a small revival began again, sharing stories, prayers, tears, and consolation for more than an hour without knowing the passage of time.
Praying together, especially for those suffering from the environment and disease.
I am also sick, but I believed in the oil swelling of healing that God poured, took courage, comforted and encouraged the vulnerable like me, and prayed with hot tears.
Japanese churches really need this kind of ministry. Japan is an individualistic society, and it is difficult to feel the same strong affection as Korea even at home and live without contacting each other well. So, I always have loneliness in my heart and the rules that must be followed in society, so I endure it unconditionally with a different mind from the outside and live a life that is suppressed for the rest of my life while reading other people's countenance.
Lonely spirit. Cold relationships. It is said that mental hospitals around the world have a lot of eggs, many suicides, and more than 100,000 missing people a year because they live under strict rules and hold their breath.
Because I didn't know God, I relied on 8 million idols, and I lived with idolatry every day, from my mother's womb to my birth and death, as in my daily life. Each family or company has an altar dedicated to Buddhist altars and ancestral gods, praying and greeting ancestors and Buddhas in the morning and evening, and temples and shrines near cities and houses. There are many tombs, so I go around from time to time and live with idolatry in my daily life.
What moved me was the Christians in Taiwan and the United States for the pastor to come to Japan mission. I was more moved to see a video of people praying together for this revival, and I admired it more and looked forward to this congregation.
You must be tired because you came from afar by plane for a long time, but thank you for sharing grace for a long time.
I woke up in the morning and couldn't see the letters well with my eyes not open, but I contacted you to convey last night's grace, emotion, and gratitude.
I pray that God will give me new power to the rest of the pastor's ministry in Japan.
A Japanese church that is spiritually asleep, giving up, and exhausted. Korean Church. Missionary. I will continue to pray that Christians will wake up and wake up under the fire of the Holy Spirit, cry out for the Japanese souls, wake up, and pray that true repentance and revival can occur in Japan.
It's hard to read the long article from the morning, right? ^^ I'm sorry.
I will continue to pray for the Japanese soul and the revival of Japan with this heart burning with the grace of the Holy Spirit.
I have no worries because the weak but strong Lord is with me.
Isn't it fun to go along the road with the Lord because the Lord is with me and guides me! I will praise you every day and take a step step by step with the Lord's hand.
Pastor~ Thank you for your hard work for a few days. Thank you. ♡]
