After ending a successful career as Chairman of Hyundai Engineering and Construction, Lee Myung-bak was nominated as the new President of South Korea in December. Lee Myung-bak, former mayor of Seoul, credits CBMC as a tool for helping him revive and renew his life in Christ. As a guest of honor at a recent CBMC celebration attended by over 1,000 CBMCers in South Korea, Lee shared, "I felt very empty and needed to be revived." He became heavily involved in CBMC Korea and eventually served for nearly 10 years as the Chairman of Shin-han CBMC Committee in Seoul. Mr. Lee is the country's first president from the corporate world. He did not come from such fortune, but rather extreme poverty after the ship carrying his family's fortune sank during their return home from Japan to South Korea in 1945. He collected garbage to pay his way through Korean University, where he earned a degree in business, and eventually landed a job with Hyundai, becoming the CEO at the age of 35 and its Chairman 11 years later. He credits his mother for her faithful prayers and her influence in his life to follow Christ. During Mr. Lee's tenure as mayor he was noted for restoring a four-mile, paved over, stream - a project that transformed a main elevated highway of Seoul into a public park. A building will be named in his honor at the new CBMC International Training Center, which is set to break ground in 2008 in the Dangjin Province, south of Seoul, on land that was donated by a Korean CBMC Member (pictured above). Praise God for what He continues to do in South Korea!
An Invitation to Serve the Poor
A year ago we highlighted the depravity and despair in northern Albania as women and children were forced to flee their homes, in the name of ethnic cleansing, leaving everything behind and traveling half the distance of their country to live in mud huts on a hill overlooking Tirana, the capital of Albania. With the fall of communism only a decade ago and a government that has little to offer its people, Albania suffers as one of the poorest countries in Europe. Few Albanians know of the hope that only Jesus can bring. Yet, God knows their sufferings and has used CBMC Belfast through the Seed of Hope project to minister, provide for these families, and share Jesus. Over the past year, CBMC Belfast has increased their food provisions by 50%. A plot of land was purchased by CBMC Belfast, with building materials being gifted from a group in the Netherlands, which will provide a place for shelter, education, and basic medical assistance when completed in the spring of 2008. On a recent visit, Jim Johnston, CBMC International Chairman, was very moved as he watched 720 children open Christmas presents and sing songs about Jesus - even in English! How and why does the Seed of Hope project and others like it help us to meet our prime objectives of evangelism and discipleship in the marketplace? Johnston passionately responds, "Imagine the impact - in the 90 countries all over the world where God is working through CBMC - if CBMCers found projects like Albania and poured their hearts, time, and money to rescue the poor, for the sake of the Kingdom of God. This is not as an alternative to traditional ministry, but as an expression of it!" Johnston continues, "This is an invitation to CBMC groups around the world to become more diligent & compassionate about caring for the ‘poor' - for of such is the Kingdom of God."
After ending a successful career as Chairman of Hyundai Engineering and Construction, Lee Myung-bak was nominated as the new President of South Korea in December. Lee Myung-bak, former mayor of Seoul, credits CBMC as a tool for helping him revive and renew his life in Christ. As a guest of honor at a recent CBMC celebration attended by over 1,000 CBMCers in South Korea, Lee shared, "I felt very empty and needed to be revived." He became heavily involved in CBMC Korea and eventually served for nearly 10 years as the Chairman of Shin-han CBMC Committee in Seoul. Mr. Lee is the country's first president from the corporate world. He did not come from such fortune, but rather extreme poverty after the ship carrying his family's fortune sank during their return home from Japan to South Korea in 1945. He collected garbage to pay his way through 
Korean University, where he earned a degree in business, and eventually landed a job with Hyundai, becoming the CEO at the age of 35 and its Chairman 11 years later. He credits his mother for her faithful prayers and her influence in his life to follow Christ. During Mr. Lee's tenure as mayor he was noted for restoring a four-mile, paved over, stream - a project that transformed a main elevated highway of Seoul into a public park. A building will be named in his honor at the new CBMC International Training Center, which is set to break ground in 2008 in the Dangjin Province, south of Seoul, on land that was donated by a Korean CBMC Member (pictured above). Praise God for what He continues to do in South Korea! 
A year ago we highlighted the depravity and despair in northern Albania as women and children were forced to flee their homes, in the name of ethnic cleansing, leaving everything behind and traveling half the distance of their country to live in mud huts on a hill overlooking Tirana, the capital of Albania. With the fall of communism only a decade ago and a government that has little to offer its people, Albania suffers as one of the poorest countries in Europe. Few Albanians know of the hope that only Jesus can bring. Yet, God knows their sufferings and has used CBMC Belfast through the Seed of Hope project to minister, provide for these families, and share Jesus. Over the past year, CBMC Belfast has increased their food provisions by 50%. A plot of land was purchased by CBMC Belfast, with building materials being gifted from a group in the Netherlands, which will provide a place for shelter, education, and basic
medical assistance when completed in the spring of 2008. On a recent visit, Jim Johnston, CBMC International Chairman, was very moved as he watched 720 children open Christmas presents and sing songs about Jesus - even in English! How and why does the Seed of Hope project and others like it help us to meet our prime objectives of evangelism and discipleship in the marketplace? Johnston passionately responds, "Imagine the impact - in the 90 countries all over the world where God is working through CBMC - if CBMCers found projects like Albania and poured their hearts, time, and money to rescue the poor, for the sake of the Kingdom of God. This is not as an alternative to traditional ministry, but as an expression of it!" Johnston continues, "This is an invitation to CBMC groups around the world to become more diligent & compassionate about caring for the ‘poor' - for of such is the Kingdom of God."
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