Youth Revival Festival

Joined the revival meeting organized by the church from 27/2 till 1/3 (Sunday till Tuesday) .

Frankly, I saw the leaflets few weeks back, I'm really interested about it but had quite a lot of worries as my command of Korean is still very poor.
And I really dislike sitting alone in a corner of the hall and being the only person in the whole room who can't understand what's going on.

But then, my soul friend, sister 혜진 (Hye Jin) encouraged me to go, saying that there's lots more other activities beside the sermon. So I decided to follow her advice and registered for it.

On the first day(Sunday afternoon), Hye Jin came to me and said that as her brother's going to the military the next day, she needs to go back home. But responsibly she asked someone else to "look after" me.

Well at first I was quite lost. Not knowing where to go and what to do. We played games in teams in the afternoon. And as the games were quite easy, I agreed to participate in one of it when 흥렬(Heng Ryeol), the brother who's taking care of me asked me to.
BUT, it seems that God's favor wasn't with me because out of all the games, the one I participated was the only one I couldn't understand at all!!

However, things came to a turning point during dinner when I was introduced to quite a number of people. They were nice and friendly. Although I was introduced to more than 20 people, I couldn't remember more than 2 names.
But accordions to Heng Ryeol, at least I can remember their faces next time I see them in church, and they'll most likely remember me. The main purpose was so that I won't feel so lonely the next time I come to church, one of the main problem which I had been facing.

On the second night, we had small group discussion till 12midnight. After that I was out to movie with 3 other members till 4.30 in the morning. And THAT's really something new to me.
I really enjoyed my time(though the movie was different from what we expected) with them.

And on the last day (yesterday), we had group activities in the afternoon. Our group was assigned to take photos with the grandmothers in a park nearby and then go to a subway station to give away tissues (with the salvation message written on the cover).
Though I've seen such scenes every week at the subway station, I never thought that I'll be in their shoes. But it was a good experience. For me I carry the hope that someone might actually come to know Christ through the words written on the tissue cover.

The last service was indeed very challenging. Well.., it wasn't exactly the sermon that challenged me (I had to gather all my might just to keep me from falling asleep), but rather the worship songs.
It's been quite sometime since I last felt such....such ...I don't know...feelings? The Spirit of God? But no matter what we call it, it's a feeling I long for everyday. The longing to live for God. To be holy.