Recently I traveled to the DMZ with a group of youth from the Cayuga-Syracuse presbytery. We were on a week long journey in South Korea, where we enjoyed the hospitality of our mission co-workers and YAVs in Daejeon a city of about two million people, and the people of the Ilsan-Hosu Presbyterian Church just outside […]
Posted: July 30, 2014, 3:52 pm
Traveling across the South Korean countryside we were able to see farms and gardens tucked away in any available space and to start to process some of the tragic and amazing sites, smells and conversations that we had already seen. Our plan is to travel from the city of Daejeon to the capital of Seoul […]
Posted: July 24, 2014, 3:50 pm
In the book of Revelations there are several times when the people cry out to God. In each instance God answers. They are longing for an end to war and that the New Kingdom will begin. The echo over the years is a prayer for the peace of Jerusalem. Perhaps in our time we do […]
Posted: July 20, 2014, 10:29 pm
Our journey began with a gathering outside a ticket kiosk in Syracuse’s Hancock airport. There are eight of us five female and three male. We are all going to South Korea as part of a week long trip to continue a relationship between the Pyongyang and Cayuga-Syracuse presbyteries, which had started fourteen years prior. Many […]
Posted: July 17, 2014, 10:49 pm
Hello all, it has been some time since that last posting and I am sorry that I have been out of contact with our website. Many of you have noticed that we as a congregation are moving in new directions. We have begun the process of hiring a new office staff person and a new […]
Posted: June 17, 2014, 3:17 pm
In the last few days it has become very apparent that the world around us is preparing for the winter coming. The fish we saw moving from the Lake into a more secure and safe body of water so that they might lay eggs and produce next years hatchlings told the story on one page, […]
Posted: October 21, 2013, 11:33 pm
God thunders with His majestic voice, And He does not restrain them when His voice is heard. God thunders marvelously with His voice. He does great things which we cannot comprehend. For He says to the snow, “Fall on the earth’; Likewise to the gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength. He seals the hand of […]
Posted: September 17, 2013, 3:05 pm
Paul wrote to the church of Ephesus, that he desired their prayer support as he shared the mystery of gospel with anyone who would listen. The mystery still abounds today. Perhaps this is part of the mystery. Every once in awhile there is an event that makes you scratch your head in wonder. This week […]
Posted: September 12, 2013, 3:55 pm
Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed! Today we gathered to worship the risen Christ in three different churches. Once all of the sheep had arrived at our exit point we started down the road to church and traveled to Singjangwee Presbyterian church a middle size church of about eight hundred worshipers. They have three […]
Posted: April 19, 2012, 8:00 am
Sorry folks, the internet connection where we are is spotty at best and I really wanted to post a picture with my last entry so I will try to add a few images with this post. Early we arose to start our time here in Seoul and we headed down to breakfast where we […]
Posted: April 17, 2012, 7:40 pm
