Egg Hunts, Peeps, and Christ's Amazing Grace

2000 years ago, as I mentioned in my last post, Christ sacrificed His own life, that we may come to know of Christ, who He is, be His disciples, and so that we may understand what it means to be loved. It's been taught for many years that on Good Friday, Christ hung up on the cross and sacrificed His own life to wipe clean OUR sins that we may be free from the chains of Hell. It's also been taught that Christ promised to his disciples that He would resurrect from the dead three days later and ascend into heaven, this day known as Easter Sunday.

This past weekend, we have indeed experienced renewal and witnessed something beautiful. For Good Friday, both the English speaking congregation, Harvest, and the Korean speaking congregation, Vision Church, held a joint service to praise and thank Christ for His great sacrifice. Today, Easter Sunday, as a church, we had a church wide picnic where both young and old could gather and fellowship, dine on amazing food, and play a variety of sports as a way of bonding and fellowship; but that's not all.

In Harvest, on the first Sunday of every month, we partake in communion as a sign/reminder of what Christ did for us. Along with communion this Sunday, we were also able to experience something more beautiful. Today, April 4, 2010, four of our members of Harvest, Jiyoung Ko, Kyoko Masuda, Evelyn Kwak, and Emmanuelle Kim, were baptized. It was indeed a beautiful thing.

Even as Easter comes to an end, I ask that we not forget how much we are loved. It is through Christ that we are able to worship freely. Our chains are gone, we've been set free, Satan has no grip us, so let us worship Christ with all that we are, day in and day out, even after Easter.

Evelyn Kwak (left; baby), Kyoko Masuda (center left), 

Jiyoung Ko (center right) and Emmanuelle Kim (right; baby) 

At Harvest, we are extremely blessed to have three pastors, two of whom are married, who love us with all their heart and constantly want to invest in our lives that we may know what it means to truly be loved. Both the pastors and their wives are a true blessing to Harvest and to KPCO.

Pastor David Larry Kim (DL), Olivia Kim, and Emmanuelle Kim (left)

Pastor Albert Young (center)

Pastor Martin "Goose" Chang and Julee Chang (right)

************* 30 Hour Famine*************

A couple posts ago, I mentioned that I would be selling photographs as a way to raise funds for a youth organization known as The 30-Hour Famine. After not getting any orders at all, I decided to make some changes.

Instead of purchasing prints, im now selling digital copies. Each copy is $7 and once the order has been placed, it will be sent via email. According to The 30-Hour Famine, $1 is enough to feed a person for one day. So, with your purchase on ONE photo, you can feed a person for one whole week. Please view the photos below for changes in directions as to how you can order.

PLEASE do not have one person purchase one photo and forward that photo to everybody else. Obivously there's no way for me to monitor that, but please just be honest and purchase digital prints for yourself and do not pass them along unless another copy is paid for. For many of us, $7 isn't much so why don't we help implement hope into others through a simple, generous act of kindness and purchase another print to give to a friend of family member. Honesty is what will help make this work.

All orders should be sent to jakleephotography@gmail.com. For more information/direction please visit my previous post. Feel free to email me with any questions.

*****PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD TO ANYBODY YOU KNOW. REFER THEM TO THIS BLOG POST OR GIVE THEM MY EMAIL OR SOMEHOW REFER THEM TO ME. THIS IS ONLY A SMALL WAY THAT BOTH YOU AND I CAN HELP THOSE SUFFERING FROM HUNGER. SO PLEASE, SPREAD TO WORD TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS.*****

This is what your email should roughly look like.

This is where you can find the photo number.