John-Michael Becker
Pre-Marital Counseling Advice
With a number of good friends getting married this year, I thought I would share some good resources for preparing for marriage. Books 1. The best book I can recommend to couples is “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work” by John Gottman. This book should be read by both the husband to be and…
Money Money Money
I’ve lived as a missionary in Korea for over nine years. I started living here off of $1,500 a month and lived pretty poorly. God began to teach me a ton of lessons on money, changing my mindset, my prayers, and my spending habits. This past year I was able to raise over $100,000 for…
2015 Arts and Crafts Camp Video
Special thanks to Jisu Choi for filming and putting this video together for us. She even made a slightly extended version for us to be able to show to the girls at the children’s homes. We will begin visiting the homes tomorrow to show them the video and give them the pictures. For pictures and…
Standards for Romance and Attraction
This past Sunday I shared at my church how I fell in love with Sky (“God of Romance”). It’s a sweet story with a lot of twists and parts to it that were clearly God working. A lot of people think that submitting your love life to God is both dangerous and boring. Most people…
The Beauty of Adoption
It never occurred to me that a lot of why Moses was so insecure about God’s calling was because Moses was adopted. Moses was saved as a child by Pharoah’s daughter, who raised him as her own. Because he was raised in Pharoah’s courts, he likely spoke the Egyptian language much better than the Hebrew…
Arts and Crafts Camp 2015
Last week Jerusalem Ministry held our 7th annual Arts and Crafts Camp for girls from different children’s homes in Seoul. We had 38 girls attend from 7 different children’s homes. The girls opened up quickly and we had a sweet three days together with them. Here are pictures and some stories from the camp… Each…
I’ve Been Here For A While
I came to Korea when I was 23 (a month before turning 24). I honestly had no idea what I was doing. I started an orphanage volunteering ministry (Jerusalem Ministry) in 2006 with just a few volunteers. We held our first soccer camp in 2008 and our first Arts and Crafts Camp in 2009. I led…
Dating – Figuring Out Who You Match Up With
Here is some very simple advice for those who don’t know what they want in a spouse – Consider the different people of the opposite sex that you have worked with, served with, studied with, gone on study abroad/mission trips with, and consider which people you genuinely enjoyed serving/working with. What was it about those specific…
The Ghosts Are Rather Puny
While living in the orphanage during my first three years in Korea I stayed in a small apartment that happened to be where the home would quarantine sick kids who had chicken pox or pink eye. Often when young kids would have to stay with me they would request that I would leave their door open…
The Beauty of Thankfulness (Possible New Year’s Resolution?)
I was convicted while still in college that my attitude was too pessimistic and negative. From adolescence my mind had been trained to be cynical and to focus on the bad. While I was thankful when good things would happen, my thankfulness rarely would last long. But when bad things would happen, I would find…