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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: Thanks to the PC(USA)’s Christmas Joy Offering, a pastor and his family receive critical support in their season of financial hardship

The pandemic dealt a blow to the finances of a pastor serving a Korean American congregation in Atlanta

A special town calls for a special pastor.

And the Rev. Sunjae Jung — initially worlds away from the storied college town of Athens, Georgia, home to the Athens Korean Presbyterian Church — heard God’s call loud and clear.

Although maybe not so clearly at first.

“When I heard about a Korean American Presbyterian church in the Atlanta area, my first answer was, ‘I don’t think it’s my calling,’ because there are over 200 of those churches and a lot of Korean pastors already in Georgia,” said Jung. “Since I was living in Korea at the time, my first answer was no. Then, when they contacted me again and told me the church was in a university city and that it has a special mission for the younger generation, I remembered being an international student myself in America when I was young and how much the church there helped me.”

Original source can be found here.

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