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Arts and Crafts Camp 2025
From January 14 to 16 we held our 15th annual arts and crafts camp at Youngnak Church. We had 25 3rd to 6th grade girls attend from five different children’s homes and we had 33 volunteers from 18 different churches. Our volunteers took three days off in the middle of the week in order to…
Soccer Camp 2024
For our 14th annual soccer camp we had 36 boys from 4 different children’s homes along with 48 volunteers, including 12 current and former Oak Tree Project students. We held the camp from July 31-August 2 at Seoul Foreign School. This year more than half of the boys were new to the camp. Here staff…
Arts and Crafts Camp 2024
This was our 14th Arts and Crafts Camp for young girls from different children’s homes in South Korea. This year we had 17 girls attend from four different children’s homes. The vast majority of these girls had been left at the Baby Box as infants. From there they were sent to their respective children’s home…
Soccer Camp 2023
After not being able to hold the soccer camp for three years due to covid, we were able to gather from July 31-August 2 at Seoul Foreign School for our 13th annual soccer camp. We had 28 3rd to 6th grade boys attend the camp, all for their first time. We had 41 volunteers serve…
Arts and Crafts Camp 2023 – Our 13th Camp
From January 9-11 we had our first camp for kids post covid lockdowns (since January 2020). We kept it small due to orphanages still being very cautious and only had nine girls attend, each paired with a volunteer. It was a good restart for us with half of the girls having attended before and the…
Oak Tree Project and Lifesong For Orphans
Beginning January 1st, 2022, we are shifting our support raising platform over to: https://give.lifesong.org/lifesong/oak-tree-project. We are transitioning all support from Come Quickly Ministries (originally registered under The Journey Church, in Springfield VA) to Oak Tree Project, which we established as an independent NGO in America. Our missionaries, Jerusalem Ministry, and Oak Tree Project will now all…
What Marks the Remnant
In many of the prophetic books of the Old Testament there is mention of a remnant of God’s people who will be delivered from the judgment of God (war, famine, plague, exile, etc.). While the majority of the people of Israel and Judah will bear the consequences of their sin, this small group of people…
Confucianism and Korea’s Children
Culture in Korea is very different from most countries. It is heavily influenced by Confucianism, so the oldest in families are held with the highest respect. While Confucianism has some good values, there is a lot of evil in it as well, including ancestor worship and the neglect of the orphan. Most Koreans believe in 천륜 (Cheonryoon), which…
2019 Jerusalem Ministry Soccer Camp
From August 12 – August 14 we held our 12th annual soccer camp for boys from different children’s homes in Korea. 29 3rd to 6th grade boys from 5 different homes joined us for this camp. We held it on the Yongsan Army Base in Seoul. Below are photos and stories from the camp and…
Feeling Bitter or Jaded Towards Leaders or Meetings
In my last blog post I wrote about different reasons why we sometimes feel resistance towards God or the church. In this post I want to cover one more reason why we sometimes feel resistance towards God or the church: when we feel bitter or jaded towards our leaders or towards certain church meetings (or…