Korean Martyr and Remaining Hostages

As I was reading my blogs this morning I came across Eugene Cho’s excellent blog detailing the crisis in Afghanistan with the terrorist Taliban group holding Christian Korean hostages.  Already, Korean Pastor Bae Hyung Kyu has been martyred.  He was leading a group from his church into this dangerous territory to help people and died a martyr for his faith.  I hope the Taliban understand what they did by killing this man who by all reports was a good man, pastor, father, and leader.  The South Korean people are not easily bullied and their Christian conviction is admirable.

We have a large Korean contingent here in Denver and my hope as a church planter is to soon be in new location where we can house not only our church but to plant a Korean work inside the place also.  The Korean people have a beautiful culture and I pray that we as a nation stand with them in opposition to this brutality.

Thank God for the blogosphere also for providing better coverage of this event that the news organizations we see every day which seem to want to focus on Lindsay Lohan and the partisan infighting in the U.S. government.