Ordained in 2005 United Methodist Church Serving the Federated Church in Orland, California since July, 2023 Born in Evanston, Illinois, raised in Seoul, South Korea until returning to Rockford, Illinois in 1971.

*Message from the Pastor (April, 2026) I have appreciated the recent empowerment felt by the reminder that to trust the Scriptures, in all of its driven guidances founded on what it means couched within the context outside of which there is deception, is an unequivocal way and only way to have truth if we follow it. Though challenging it is always, to have conquered our fallen human sinful tendency to breach its teachings, there is no other worthy effort to exert in all of our ways of existing. In other words, without our, this increasingly optional culture of choices that relentlessly presents new and apparently better options, the accused archaics, primitive, out of date, irrelevant old interpretations of orthodoxy is at the center of our dilemmas. Thus it is paradoxically so comforting to find ourselves within the faith, after belief, trust, obedience and discipleship, when that which was true in its inception through the incarnate God in Jesus of Nazareth is finally the absolute our soul demands, has not , does not, will not change. It is the only thing that is constant truth. Without it there is none such for all others change for it is temporary, fleeting, chaff, shell, hollow of the self without the core substance that becomes us. And only the Bible will help us find our real self. It is, was, will be born through the faith in Jesus, power of the Holy Spirit and love of the God the father. The trinity, one God head in three, is the dynamic, organic, mysterious, supernatural, divine reality each one of us is invited to. That is where the truth is, our real self, the soul, that which does not end, meant to be eternal, one way or the other. We, each one of us, choose, and the Bible is the only guide to making the right choice we will live with for eternity and one is not the other. Let’s prove to ourselves, our faith in the above is true only if it is verified in the context of the Bible, that is in our hands. And yet for some, to whom this is addressed, it is so very far, elusive, and unreachable. We can change that today, the Bible says.