I actually was able to talk to Don before I put this picture up! So he cannot get upset with me....
This is Don Kim, and he was my VERY FIRST bible study teacher! Every Saturday I would take the Red Line "L" Train to the University of Illinois-Chicago (go Flames!) to the Agape House, where we met to study parable after parable. I have to tell you...studying scriptures was intoxicating to me! I kept just studying and studying the Word when we met. I pretty sure that I had at least 10 questions per study. Don was really willing to not only help me understand the Word of God, but everyone else who was being invested in Project I.C.E.
I was about 11 years old when Don led me in bible study. You also have to understand that at 11 years old, we weren't able to discern their ethnicity! Just think, a large group of inner-city Black and Latino youth seeing that Don was "Chinese" because we had no exposure to Asian Culture, outside of your Chinese Restaurant!
We eventually "got it" that Don was in fact Korean American! One of the baddest Korean American basketball players I knew (in his prime of course...I'd smoke him in a one-on-one game right now). He was competitive with us in any sport, which we loved and he became a big brother to us...
I am so indebted to his teaching of the bible to me, it was those very same parables that came to my mind when I gave my life over to Jesus Christ...but that's getting 2 Krazy Koreans ahead of myself.
SO...Susan Paik's obedience to start the bible study gave the opportunity for me to explore my faith, and Don Kim's weekly bible study leading invested treasure into my heart....Next Krazy Korean...Irene Hahn (with Liz Cho and Sharon Bak)...Fearless Korean Women who showed me what it means to have Joy in the Lord!
