8/13/2019 My Return Trip

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Three years ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to go to Turkey and serve as a missionarythere for a year. Many of you were part of my journey at that time and all your prayers andsupport led to many breakthroughs to occur in the Kurdish region I was in. We (myself anda team of seven other student missionaries) saw a couple of our friends receive Christ andothers who experienced God in supernatural ways. Many of these friends, we consider likebrothers and sisters and they themselves call us “kan-ka,” which means “blood brother.”

It’s now been more than two years since I’ve come back and my heart has been aching toreturn to the mission field.

I, and former teammate/friend Allen, will be taking a two-week trip to Eastern Turkey to revisitand reconnect with our Kurdish friends whom we’ve ministered to for a year. These are thefriends we repeatedly met with and poured our lives into during the duration of our year-longstint. Let me introduce them to you quickly.

Miraz Mesut

Ergun Metin

Ilham

I called my friend Metin recently (when he was asleep, unfortunately) and after he finallyrealized who was calling, his voice came back and we excitedly yelled each others’ names.“Youjin!” he exclaimed (they prefer to call me by my Korean name, not American). We talk-

ed for a bit, but because my Turkish had become so broken, it was hard to communicateour deeper emotions. Metin shared how since I had left, his life had become very difficult.He shared, “Right when you arrive at the airport, make sure to call me. We will hang outtogether every day once you get here.”

My hope is to continue to share about Jesus with these friends and nurture the seed weplanted a few years back. They are all such kind souls, but they have yet to receive the

love of God. Please partner in praying for Allen and me as we meet these friends againand for supernatural workings of the Holy Spirit.

We will also be visiting brother Ilham, our first friend who accepted Christ. He has beenfaithfully following Jesus since then, although the road’s been lonely for him as he’s theonly Christian in his area. Pray for encouragement over this brother and for blessings overour reunion.

Turkey is an unreached nation with believers that account for a mere 0.13% of the overall74 million people population. Perhaps 20% of that population make up for the Kurds, whohave long been one of the most oppressed people groups today. It is a place that desper-ately needs Jesus. Please pray for more workers into this nation.

Isn’t he so adorable??

Thanks for reading! Contact me if you want to know moreabout my trip!