My English Bible Study

At the end of my last entry I talked about an English Bible study that I have been leading. I would like to elaborate a little more on that. The Bible study was the idea of one of the Koreans that I met at church, Young Ho. He had a vision to help foreigners in Korea get fed spiritually.
The group started with 3 people: myself, Young Ho, and another Korean woman. The goal of the Bible study was to have a time where foreigners could come and study the Bible along with Koreans who could speak English well.
The group started by studying the book of Daniel. I would not have chosen this book to start a Bible study with because it is very packed with prophecy near the end. I was lucky to have brought my study Bible with me and we were able to understand the jist of the book.
By the time we finished Daniel our group had grown to 5 members. We added 2 more foreigners. The next book we decided to study was Esther. This was a good book to study because it showed how God was faithful. The next book we studied was 1 Timothy. This was a good book for us because we were all teachers. By this point our group had grown to 8 members, 2 Koreans and 1 more foreigner. The last book that we started to study, before I left for Canada, was James.
This is a picture of our group while it still had a significant amount of members.
Our group did more than just study the Bible. We also helped out at the local Christian orphanage for a short time. I actually only went 2 times because of it being so early in the morning and being before church on Sunday. The group was able to play games with the children, sing some songs, and teach them Bible lessons. For the orphanage the Bible study group also raised money by caroling in downtown Jinju for donations. We were able to give them a significant amount of money for them for Christmas.
The picture on the right is of Susan playing a game with the children at the orphanage.
The picture below is of us caroling for donations downtown Jinju.
The last thing that the group did together was to have Christmas dinner together. It was nice to go and have a feast of food and spend the day talking, playing games, and having fun with each other. If we didn't have dinner together on Christmas, I think that it would have been a very lonely day for all us foreigners.
This picture is of all of us having Christmas dinner together. What a feast of food!
To this day there are only 4 members attending the Bible study. Most people got very busy with life or they went back to their countries. I am the only original member and soon I will only be the only foreigner as Susan, the other foreigner has only one week left and she goes back to Canada. The other 3 members are all new to the group since I came back to Korea. They are all Koreans, 2 of them missionaries and the other an university student.
Before I finish talking about the Bible study group let me just tell you about all the places that we have held the Bible study. We were first in an English school, then at a book store, then at my church, and right now we are at a Christian hospital. It's interesting how we have moved to so many locations, but each place has served it's purpose.