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This past Thursday I got to lead worship at the @ywamhonolulu Community Meeting.
We have a Korean DTS running right now and I wanted to lead some songs in Korean since all the corporate worship times are in English. One big problem. Although I am Korean I don’t speak Korean.
So I had to enlist the help of some friends.
When we were here in 2012 my friend @jneylee translated To The One by @harvestbashta into Korean. I love this tune because of it’s syncopated melody, but it sounds even cooler in Korean.
I’m grateful for the interwebs. Jane graciously relearned the song and sent me a recording so I could share it with Laura and the Korean students who joined us. One day Jane and I are going to record this song together which is a little difficult right now because she’s living in Turkey.
@se_laura_kr translated at the last community meeting for Danny Lehmann. And I reached out to her after, asking if she sang because I knew I was up to lead the following Thursday and wanted to do some of it in Korean.
Laura is amazing. She was raised in Sweden, her parents are missionaries there. So she’s trilingual AT LEAST. (Laura do you speak more languages?) Swedish, Korean and English. She’s serving as the translator here for the Korean DTS.
She faces the struggle that a lot of MK (missionary kids) do though. Living life as a 3rd culture kid.
I wonder if international adoptees count as 3rd culture kids too.
I’ve never talked much about my adoption or my Korean-ness or un-Korean-ness. I wondered sometimes why God made me Asian, but I think it’s making a bit more sense now as I living in Hawaii.
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I really believe that the church should be leading the way in vulnerability.
If you’re a follower of Jesus and you think the church should be doing something, that’s your open door for YOU to go ahead and do it. Lead the way. Don’t wait for someone else to take ownership of your good idea. We need you to lead us.
So maybe soon I’ll get brave and share my story. Until then I’ll say its so strange to have a son that looks like me. It’s the first person I’ve ever been able to mirror. And I may be tearing up as I write this.
