ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: Korean Bible studies with Taekwondo in Cambodia |
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Not one to be shy from bashing either Koreans or Christians here is an article from the beeb covering the work of Korean missionaries in Cambodia and the good they do. You may find some of it familiar.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7314623.stm
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Around 16,000 South Koreans work in foreign countries as Christian missionaries. Only the US sends more people abroad to win converts to Christianity.
In the city of Sihanoukville, Southern Cambodia, I found Korean protestant missionaries competing with one another, trying to convert locals to their own protestant denomination.
But the missionaries don't just offer Christianity...
...After class, the youngsters sing hymns and listen to a sermon.
The missionaries call this the "contact point" method of conversion. Potential converts are offered lessons or accommodation before being presented with the message of the gospel.
Mr Hahn offers free English lessons, food and accommodation in his "Bible School", where he trains young non-Christian Cambodians to be pastors after only three years. He says they are usually baptised after six months...
A former factory worker who is now a third-year student, tells me she is happy to have been offered free food, lodging, and some education.
And many church members in South Korea go a step further, signing up for visits to Korean missions abroad - so-called "camcorder missions".
One such group was kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2007 by the Taleban. Two members of the group were killed.
Many of the Korean protestants I have spoken to, consider them to be "martyrs" whose "blood" is good for the cause of Jesus in Afghanistan...
When I ask them if they would travel to serve God's cause in a dangerous country like Afghanistan, all but two hands are raised....
The number of Christian missionaries in Cambodia has risen in recent years to at least 400. Of these, 300 are from Korea, while others are from Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia....
The missionaries claim that conversion is not only the key to a life according to God's will, but also to prosperity.
They cite South Korea as an example, where a rapid Christianisation has accompanied rapid industrialisation.
Moses Hahn, for example, has only one explanation for the huge disparity in wealth between North and South Korea.
"There is only one reason. They have no God, but we have God - true God," he says.
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The article finishes on a church being out competed by an English language school. Khristianity is very unique from western Christianity(or the Christianity I experienced back home) and this article sums up many of the positive and negative aspects of what many would consider a cult.
I think I might write a letter to Bill Gates and ask him to fund my Spaghetti Monster medical programme for Darfur and see how many converts I can notch up. |
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