Hey, friends! 🙂
A few things about me:
I’m a 21-year-old Korean-American (I’ll be 22 on the Race!) just trying to learn how to love Jesus more deeply and how to love other people better.
I was born in Brooklyn, NY but grew up in northern NJ, in the suburbs of NYC. My languages are English, Korean, and Spanish, in order of decreasing fluency. I appreciate languages a lot, though unfortunately I’m not very quick at picking them up! I absolutely love music and couldn’t imagine my life without it. I’ve played the flute, the piano, and the piccolo, and I also enjoy learning to sing, beatbox, and play the guitar.
I’m graduating this year from Duke as a psychology major, and until very recently, I was pre-med for most of my life. Actually, God used my utter confusion about the future to open my heart to the World Race! I really have no idea where I will go after the Race, but I trust He’ll reveal the next step to me in His perfect timing, as well as provide the courage to follow His voice relentlessly.
My previous missions experience consists of one extended trip in 2009 to Honduras. I was there for about 5-6 months, teaching English and helping out with various other aspects of ministry at a Christian school. Of course, I wish I had done more and dug deeper throughout that experience, but I’m so grateful that the Lord gave me such an incredible opportunity to learn and serve.
One of my greatest joys is listening to people’s stories. I think I’m especially drawn to brokenness. Perhaps it’s because suffering and perseverance have been such an essential part of the way God has pursued me. Or maybe it’s that I greatly value compassion and empathy, and I find it fascinating how someone’s past so intricately shapes the details of here and now. It’s also awesome to gain hope through reflecting upon the Lord’s faithfulness through the ages. I love that He uses ashes and pain to create beauty.
Jesus is the only reason that I have any hope and joy, any capacity to love. I’m desperate to be desperate for Him only, for without Him I am nothing– nothing but prideful and helpless.
