On November 11, 2015, the Korean Union Conference (KUC) Health Ministries and Welfare Ministries Department held a completion ceremony for the Lay Institute for Global Health Training (LIGHT) online course of Wildwood College of Health Evangelism.
This program is a medical missionary training course that teaches unique Adventist health messages. More than 10,000 students in about 80 countries have completed this course up to now. The LIGHT is a supporting ministry devoted to train and equip medical missionaries. It provides short-term courses, online education, and 6-month or long-term courses.
The Korean language online course, which opened last June, offers 15 lectures including health subjects, such as Principles of Health & Natural Healing, Nutrition, Health Evangelism,and Health Expo, and spiritual subjects, such as Christian Living, Finishing the Work, and Evangelism & Soul-winning.
At the completion ceremony, which took place at the KUC auditorium, certificates were given to 117 students who finished 140hours ofclasses. “The Adventist health message is urgent and important, and it is good to train medical missionaries to help people in pain. God gave the Adventist Church health messages because He wants us to be a channel of blessings,” said Pastor Shin WonShik.
“When we do medical mission work, physical treatment is not our primary goal in accordance with the Bible and Adventist faith. To cure disease is a chance to lead the patient to God. Thus, the fundamental purpose of medical mission work is to restore the relationship between God and human beings and between a person and another” said Pastor Kim DaeSung, KUC president.
Representing the graduates, Mrs. Hong SoonAe, Mrs. Kim ChunGyeong, and Mrs. Lee JeongHee shared their testimonies. “It was not easy to study with online videos, but it was good to study in the Korean language anytime and anywhere. Now, I can share natural healing methods and health messages with others. I will try to help and serve neighbors with well-prepared words.”
Ms. Joanna Kim, the Korean online course director, encouraged the graduates. “We are all proud medical missionaries who devote ourselves for the tremendous gospel mission. The time is serious and urgent, and our duty is huge and enormous. Modern natural healing is not just a method or a therapy, but a noble message based on the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy. The presence of the latter rain and the Holy Spirit is near. God will open the way and guide us.”
The KUC Health Ministries and Welfare Ministries Department will continue to support graduates for medical mission work in cooperation with each conference.