John-Michael Becker

My Work Here at the Home

Currently I am living in the guest apartment at the orphanage. I teach elementary and high school students from the orphanage, children and mothers from the community (for outreach by the orphanage), and soon I will also be tutoring the pastor’s wife and the dorm parents here at the home. I am teaching a lot of different classes with students ranging from not knowing the ABC’s to being able to carry basic conversations. Thankfully, the classes are spread out and I am not overwhelmed at all. Although I am trying to be as good a teacher as possible, I feel a greater call to simply be with the children and show them love. I quickly learned their names by taking pictures of all of them (82 kids), labeling the pictures, and then praying for each of them. Even now, after knowing their names for a long time, they still love to quiz me and smile brightly when I get all their names right. I only know a few Korean words, but somehow from just playing with them, smiling and waving, and eating with them, they have completely accepted me. I have begun studying the language and I intend to study it as long as I am here in Korea.

Why I Serve and Live (whether in Korea or anywhere)

How God Led Me to the Children’s Home

How Jerusalem Ministry began