by David Chung | Jan 18, 2022 | Leadership Blog
Risk-Taking Godowon translated risk-taking as literally meaning “the willingness to take danger upon oneself.” It refers to a spirit of challenge—acting willingly even while fully aware that risks lie ahead. He went on to say, “If you fear risk, you cannot even begin....
by David Chung | Dec 22, 2021 | Newsletter
Dear Friends, December 5, 2021 My teammate Dr. Antoinette Williams just arrived in Nairobi, Kenya. Representing DCMi, Antoinette will be speaking twice at...
by David Chung | Nov 22, 2021 | Leadership Blog
On September 14, 2021, Pastor David Yonggi Cho passed away at the age of 85. As we all know, he planted a church in 1958 with five members in a tent, and over the course of fifty years of ministry—until his retirement in 2008—he grew Yoido Full Gospel Church into the...
by David Chung | Nov 5, 2021 | Newsletter
November 5, 2021 Dear Friends, Thank you so much for praying for Antoinette’s safe return. After 37 hours of travel, Antoinette finally arrived in Seattle at 6:00 pm on November 4th (yesterday). I keep receiving warning emails from the State Department every...
by David Chung | Nov 2, 2021 | Newsletter
November 2, 2021 Dear Friends, Would you pray for my teammate Dr. Antoinette Williams’ safe return? Antoinette has been serving ministry in Ethiopia since Sunday. This morning, however, the Ethiopian government declared an emergency in the area where...
by David Chung | Jul 27, 2021 | Leadership Blog
“Elisha picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah… and said, ‘Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?’ And when he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.”(2 Kings 2:12–14) I once read a newspaper article in which a...
by David Chung | Jul 26, 2021 | Leadership Blog
How great a blessing it is to meet a mentor who can help us grow. The story of Mencius’ mother moving three times for her son’s education is well known to us. Elisha stayed with his teacher until the very end to inherit Elijah’s spiritual authority. Without a mentee’s...
by David Chung | Jul 25, 2021 | Leadership Blog
Luis Palau was an evangelist who, together with Billy Graham, shaped the landscape of global evangelism in our time. Born in 1934 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Luis enjoyed a privileged childhood, studying in English at a British-run boarding school. However, when he...
by David Chung | Jul 25, 2021 | Leadership Blog
Between the message and the messenger, which is more important? It goes without saying that the message is more important because it is the message that makes the messenger important and powerful. If there is no message, then the messenger will be meaningless. ...
by David Chung | Jul 24, 2021 | Leadership Blog
“To make a single chrysanthemum bloom,the bush warbler must have cried from spring onward…” The story of how Moses became a mature leader is anything but simple. One does not become a leader the moment a diploma is handed out at a leadership school graduation. Leaders...