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Pandemic Advice from South Korea: Pastors, Focus on Your Family

“So many pastors’ kids share how they feel neglected in the home. This is a unique time where we are spending large quantities of time with the family.”
Pandemic Advice from South Korea: Pastors, Focus on Your Family

The statistics and stories about the lives shattered by COVID-19 keep piling up. Sadly, if the experts are correct, the worst days of the pandemic are still ahead. But the US is not the first country to deal with this scourge.

James Byun is the founding senior pastor of Lifespring Church inSouth Korea, which has been dealing with the pandemic since January. He was born in Seoul, Korea, but immigrated to the United States when he was two years old. After pastoring in Northern California, Dallas, and Washington, DC, God led him and his wife, Heather, to move across the world to plant an international church in South Korea. Although he hardly spoke any Korean, he, Heather, and their four children packed up and moved to South Korea. Today Lifespring Church is a diverse international church located in Songdo, with over 40 nations represented. Maina Mwaura spoke with Byun to learn what might be in store for pastors in America over the next month.

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