Category archive: Pictures
Arts and Crafts Camp 2020 – Our 12th Camp
From January 14-16 we held our 12th annual arts and crafts camp. 21 3rd-6th grade girls from 7 different children’s homes attended the camp. We held it at Youngnak Church in Seoul (thankful to Youngnak IWE for reserving the room for us). We are now at the point that half of the girls attending weren’t…
Arts and Crafts Camp 2019 – Our 11th Camp
From January 15 – 17 we held our 11th annual arts and crafts camp at Youngnak Church in Seoul. We hosted 26 2nd – 6th grade girls from 8 different children’s homes. During the camp each girl was paired with a trained volunteer who would help her make crafts over the three days. Our camp director…
2018 Soccer Camp
From July 30 to August 1 we held our 11th annual Jerusalem Ministry soccer camp for 3rd to 6th grade boys from different children homes around Seoul. Due to some social welfare changes implemented in 2007 the number of elementary school students in the homes is now far less than it used to be, so…
Oak Tree Project 3rd Annual Retreat
Oak Tree Project just wrapped up it’s 5th year of existence with our 3rd annual retreat. This year rather than all staying together in one location (hard to find a place that will fit all of us), we instead split up into five groups and stayed at five different apartments (two of them airbnbs). We had…
Steadfast Love (10th Arts and Crafts Camp)
From January 16 – 18 we had 29 girls from six different children’s homes gather for our 10th annual arts and crafts camp at Youngnak Church in Seoul. We’ve now held 10 soccer camps and 10 arts and crafts camp for 3rd to 6th graders from different children’s homes in Seoul. At this point the…
The Greatest Gift We Can Give (4th Basketball Camp)
While serving the kids over the years here in Korea I’ve learned that the greatest gift I can give the kids is love. Big gifts, nice meals, comedy shows, amazing camps, new clothes, and other things are all nice, but without love behind them they can all end up empty. What these kids are truly hungry…
Ride Against Traffick 2017 – Family and Rest
Sky and I recently participated in our fourth Ride Against Traffick. From October 6th – 9th, 47 people started from Busan and headed up to Seoul (about 550km), with 28 of them biking and 19 people serving as support crew. It was a blessed time and I’ve made a photo blog below to show what the…
2017 Jerusalem Ministry Soccer Camp – Our 10th Camp!
Jerusalem Ministry, the orphanage ministry I started back in May 2006, has been holding soccer camps every summer for 3rd to 6th grade boys since 2008. This was our tenth camp! We had 39 boys from seven different children’s homes and 46 volunteers (including staff). We held the camp from August 7-9. Please scroll through for a…
참나무프로젝트 두번째 수련회(KOREAN)
2017년 2월4일 금요일 저녁에 17명의 학생들과 16명의 멘토들이 2번째 연례 수련회를 위해 에어비엔비로 찾은 서울의 한 집에 모였습니다. 이 수련회의 목적은 학생들과 가까워지고 그들이 마음을 열 기회를 주며 그들을 위해 기도하고 함께 좋은 시간을 보내는 것입니다. 이번 수련회는 저희가 생각한 목적을 다 이루고도 더 많은 것을 보았습니다! 밑에 수련회의 사진들을 나누었습니다. 그러나 그전에 이 수련회의…
Oak Tree Project 2nd Annual Retreat
On the evening of Friday, February 4th, 17 students and 16 mentors gathered together at a home in Seoul (rented via airbnb) for our 2nd annual retreat. The purposes of this retreat are to grow closer with the students, to give them a chance to open up and share and receive prayer, and to have a…