From Death to Life

12601 Detroit Avenue,Lakewood OH 44107

29 November, 2022

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“There’s nothing we can do. … [you have] not even a few hours left.” Three doctors told missionary to Liberia John Choi he was dying and there was nothing they could do to stop it. He’d been stung on his foot by a poisonous African scorpion. His heart had already stopped four times. He was in and out of consciousness. “This is how a person dies,” he remembers thinking. John told The Stream that he was in despair, hopeless and sad. The missionary who had first found him unconscious had taken him to doctors at three different hospitals. He too began thinking John would die. He called the main campus of International Youth Fellowship organization in Korea. He had to notify them that one of the volunteer missionaries was dying. But founder of IYF and Good News Mission, Pastor Ock Soo Park, answered the phone. Wait for the Lord After speaking with the missionary who found John, Pastor Park asked to speak with John. Park told John what he’d heard. John was dying. There was nothing that doctors could do. But then he told John there was a way for him to live. “For you to overcome the poison, you need a new strength.” That very morning, Park had read Isaiah 40:31: “But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.” Park continued