With the opening of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, Korea, church circles are busily engaged in service and mission activities centering around the Athletes Village Church. Not only Incheon-area ministers and believers, and sports mission workers, but overseas Korean missionaries and activists from international mission organizations as well, are continuously gathering in Incheon.
AIA (Athletes in Action), an international sports mission organization with more than 400 mission workers in 85 countries around the world, dispatched 10 some persons to Korea. Meeting with Kukmin Daily in the Athletes Village Church caf?, East Asia Area Secretary Dave Dill said, “Our important mission task is to help the athletes demonstrate their full capacities while enjoying a sense of physical, mental and spiritual stability…We are also watching for opportunities to share the Gospel.”
The 10 members of the Australian Short-term Mission Team (photo), led by Rev. Ryu Byeong-jae (Australia Siloam Presbyterian Church), are carrying out translation services for the protocol team and others, as volunteer translators belonging to the Asian Games Organizing Committee. This is their third service project, following the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2002 Busan Asian Games.
The Asian Games Athletes Village Church starts each day with a dawn worship service at 6 a.m. It will continue to hold various kinds of services till the 4th of October, including 40 some English Bible study sessions, 20 English-language worship services and Sunday worship (morning and afternoon). 20 some volunteers are staying at the church for mission work, caf? service and other support activities; and help is also being provided by 68 Incheon-area churches, the Korea Christian Sports Association and others.
Article and photo by reporter Jaechan Park (jeep@kmib.co.kr) from Incheon, with Marion Kim (marionkkim@icloud.com)
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