Well, I'm back in Korea again! I arrived Saturday afternoon in Incheon airport. It was a very only day--I started off in Toronto at 5:30 am. I'd gone to Marya's Thursday morning, so I could look after her boys while she was at school for her last day. Then she took me to the airport bright and early Friday morning. Since I was flying to Korea through Chicago, I had to go through American customs and immigration in Toronto, and that took a VERY LONG time. But once I got into Chicago, I didn't have to go through all that again--so that was good.
Then, a 14 hour flight to Incheon. That was very long as well. It was so good to see David when I finally got there! We took a hotel in Seoul since our plan was to go to the largest church in the world on Sunday. The hotel we had was just around the corner from the church!
The church has 830,000 members. They have 7 services on a Sunday, 3 services on Wednesdays, a Saturday service, daily all-Night services from11pm until 4 am, and 2 daily dawn services (at 5am and 7 am). The church seats about 10,000 people. It has simultaneous translations for Engllish, French, Japanses, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Indonesian and Arabic. One of the balconies is for foreigners, and each seat has head sets available. Members are also encouraged to belong to cell groups--and there are hundreds of cell groups in the church.
It looks like any mega church in North America. The choir is about 150 members, with a small orchestra, there are lots of ushers and hospitality people, traffic people to help you cross the very busy street, and people who speak every language there so they can provide assistance to anyone who needs it.
It's a Full Gospel church--many of the songs were very traditional. The translation was quite good, considering it was simultaneous--the translator had no time to perfect the translation! The people were very friendly, and it was a good place to worship Sunday morning.
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That's amazing! What an experience!!!
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