Raising one person

From the beginning UBF work was not crowd-centered, but focused on helping each person personally and raising him or her up. For example, if one person was absent to the student committee meeting, the other members visited that person, brought him or her to the meeting and then started the meeting. The bills at the student committee meeting had to be passed unanimously. Otherwise, it could not be passed. Whenever we prayed for a campus, we prayed that God would raise up one ancestor of faith for that campus. The greatest prayer of Dr. Samuel Lee and Missionary Sarah Barry was that God would grant one steward for each campus. God answered their prayer and raised up Brother Changsun Jun (now Dr. John Jun) at the Medical School of Chun-nam University and Brother Kwanok Kim (now Shepherd Moses Kim) at Chosen University.

Brother Changsun Jun attended UBF meetings for six years without missing one. He also got up at 4 a.m., woke his sheep, and brought five of them to the morning prayer meeting. He had the attitude of a servant. He worked like a janitor, cleaning the center, arranging chairs and shoes. One day he contracted tuberculosis. Still he came to the meetings without missing one until people began to worry about his health. But he did not worry about his health. He maintained his life of faith, and encouraged and comforted others.

When Brother Changsun Jun became the steward of Kwangju UBF, God raised many stewards like him: Hyunjeong Lee in Junju, Dugkeun Seo in Daejun, Changyoon Song in Jeju, and Choosun Yang, Jinhee Lee, Kilsoo Kim, Chungsook Choo, Sungduk Ahn in Seoul. God raised up one man Abraham for 25 years. Jesus also concentrated on raising up 12 disciples rather than a crowd of people. Therefore our one-to-one Bible study ministry is very important. Raising one person is the way to change this generation and the world. Therefore, we must keep this principle of raising one person. May God bless our one-to-one disciples ministry abundantly and raise up national directors in 233 nations until 2010.