We are nobody.
No impressive background. Nothing to our name. And yet God has used us despite our lack.
My father, Pastor Son Hyun-bo, was jailed 145 days — no bail, no conviction — simply for preaching Scripture according to his conscience. While every other church shut its doors, the world pointed fingers and asked, “Why are you still worshiping?” We believe God was pleased with him, even then.
In high school, my father attended a trade school just to keep his Sunday worship. When he chose church over a certification exam scheduled on a Sunday, he was expelled. But days before the makeup exam, a fire broke out at the school — the test was pushed to Monday, and he graduated after all.
Before the seminary application deadline, with no money for tuition, a Buddhist monk placed the enrollment fee in his hands. After he enrolled with nowhere to go, that same monk fed him and gave him shelter.
Under Korea’s military dictatorship, he served in the 701st Special Forces, a unit formed to eliminate North Korea’s dictator. Training left no room for Sunday worship, and from his very first week he was beaten daily by senior soldiers, NCOs, and officers — beaten nearly out of his mind. By the time his service ended, his entire platoon had come to faith in Jesus.
We praise God for every one of these miracles, shown through my father and through Segero Church.
And today, our family met President Trump. Maybe that, too, is one more sign of His grace.
Fear no man. Fear no government. Fear God alone.
No matter what the world says, may we — and may this become a movement — stand on the truth of Scripture, on moral law, and on the values God has given us.
Thank you brothers and sisters in Christ.
McCoy family, Bondarenko family, all of those names I can put here.
God will acknowledge and bless your family.