The Only Way (John 14:6)
2022 German Summer Conference Story
About 140 people from Germany, USA, European countries like Hungary, Poland etc., India, students from Korea had registered for the conference.
The conference location, the youth hostel "Burg Rothenfels", is located about 20 km northwest from Würzburg, right next to the river Main.
However, some from India could not come because of the visa problem and some from USA because of the Lufthansa strike.
Some missionaries in Germany could not attend because of the corona disease.
On the evening of July 28, Mathias Hong from Gummersbach preached on John 14:1-6 entitled “Jesus is the only way”: Jesus was obedient to the point of death and died for us and our neighbors. Jesus serves us. That is why belief in him is attractive. Through his death we have fellowship with God and have examples of love and obedience.
Matthias urged everyone to follow Jesus: Who among the conference participants who wants to love Jesus the most out of gratitude should stand still. And everyone stand.
Shawn Desai of Ernst Lansing, Michigan, USA then gave his testimony of faith. He was able to accept Jesus as his Savior through Bible study with missionary Pioneer Kim.
On Friday, July 29, before breakfast, Jeong-Wan Jang, the leader of Seoul University's CMI, preached using Heb. 9:11-14. He said that the blood of Jesus has the power to forgive sins. He hated his father because his father was violent to his mother. But at 25 he accepted Jesus as Christ and experienced the forgiveness of sins and forgave his father.
After breakfast, Brother Eun-Ho Lee from Korea shared his testimony of faith. He grew up in a pastor's house because his father was a pastor. But he was an outsider of the Church and did not know his identity. When he began his studies, he studied John 4 in the CMI and met Jesus personally and began to read the Bible and pray.
On the evening of July 29, Andreas Schmeinck read W. S.'s sermon on John 1:4. W. S. grew up in a poor family. Because of this, he suffered greatly from poverty and he hated his poor father and all rich people. But in 1973 he accepted Jesus as his Christ. And based on Matthew 28:19-20 he accepted God's call to abroad and flew in 1988. He was in the hospital for a month because of the corona disease. In his country, many young people are learning the Bible. Some want to go abroad as lay workers.
Afterwards Pastor Reonardo from Hungary spoke about the refugee aid in Odessa, Ukraine by providing food for the poor and refugees.
Before breakfast on July 30, Andreas Schmeinck read Isaac Koh's sermon from the USA about the rich man in Luke 10:25-37: Isaac Koh said that Jesus called us to help others have eternal life.
Bikkie Park read the testimony of family China and her husband in Hong Kong. They have a 2 year old child. They pray early each morning to set up Jesus' disciples.
From 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. there were two workshop groups: “About Trinity” by Lukas Park and “About Student Mission in Germany” by Luke Jin.
Lukas Park explained the doctrine of the Trinity in detail based on the Bible verses.
Luke Jin explained the possibility for the student mission in Germany.
In the evening, Barnabas Kim from Stuttgart preached God's word from Lk. 9:28-35 about the transfiguration of Jesus on the high mountain. He preached that we should hope and pray and work for the glory in the kingdom of heaven.
After his sermon we prayed together for about an hour for various prayer topics, e.g. for CMI churches in Germany, Europe and in the world, for Ukraine, for neighbors etc.
After this hour of prayer there was first a fruit party and then 4 pieces of music by the CMI Korea staff.
On Sunday, July 31 after breakfast, Johnes Kim Sr. preached God's Word from Rev. 22:16-21, entitled "I am coming soon". He said that Jesus is the morning star. With Jesus the darkness of our lives ends.
Johannes Kim lived in his youth in darkness because his father was a drunkard and abused his mother. That's why he had thoughts of committing suicide. But during his student days he received Jesus as Savior by studying the letters of the Romans and experienced the forgiveness of sins based on John 8:11.
This Jesus invites everyone to come to Jesus and accept Jesus as living water.
Because of the words of God, song of praise and fellowship, all participants were radiant. We were able to have warm fellowship each other from different countries around the world and open our hearts to the whole world. We praise God for His mercy and gracious work during this conference.
We give God the honor and say thank You!