A gift of growth.

By Rhonda Nicholes
Word of Life missionary to South Korea

What would you do if a friend came to your house one evening and said, “I’m going to give you $230,000?” Well, that is exactly what happened to us this past March. As you can imagine, we were floored and at a loss for words. God had blessed a friend from church, and she wants to see the cafetorium here at the Bible Institute’s Jeju campus completed this summer.

Finishing this cafetorium will officially bring Phase 1 of the Jeju building project to a close. We have been able to run the school without it until this point by using one floor of a dorm to have classes, operating our offices out of a construction storage container, temporarily housing the kitchen in a maintenance garage, and serving meals in a greenhouse/tent structure (very hot in summer and very cold in the winter).  As you can see, this will greatly enhance the experience of students who come, make the campus much more attractive, help us recruit students, and make the program much more efficient for the staff.

We were not necessarily planning a work project this summer, but God obviously had other ideas. So, we are looking for a few more donations to bring us up to the $300,000 needed to complete the project. We also need workers — skilled and unskilled — to come and help to raise the roof between July 17 and September 17.

It will be one of the cheapest overseas short-term mission trips I know of — just the cost of a plane ticket.

The logs for the building are already on their way from Lincoln Logs in Warrensburg, New York. They should arrive around July 17. God is also sending Eugene Webster and his family back as the general contractor to oversee the project.

Anyone interested in investing his or her construction skills — carpentry, electrical, plumbing, roofing, tiling — or simply two hands is invited to help at the Bible Institute in Jeju this summer. Please contact cherylgredlein@wol.org for more information, and be praying that God will send the funds and friends needed to make this happen!