Park's Prayer Letter(No. 18)


Date: Jan. 2000

Greetings, dear friends and family near and far.
We greet you from Ethiopia! We smell and feel Ethiopia here since we arrived at Addis Ababa safely on the 30th of Dec. 1999. It took 20hrs from New York to Addis via Frankfurt. We praise that we got through all the customs and got our all the boxes and luggages without any losing. Jong kook's work permit was renewed as a church planter and we are waiting for getting a residence ID. At the moment we are staying at the guest house of the Head Quarter of SIM Ethiopia until we find a house to settle in Addis. Daesun(Jason-Tony) and Jeeyeon(Anna) have already started school from Jan. 3, Monday. They are welcomed by old friends and teachers here. Daesun is doing super ! He joined Taekwondo team and basketball team for matching other schools here. Jeeyeon had a little bit difficult to adjust to Ethiopia. She felt home sick to Connecticut, U.S. and had bad cold at the first day of our arrival, but now she is doing fine after she met her old friends waiting for her for a long time here. We met our fellow missionaries here and found that many had left from Ethiopia because of insecurity in Ethiopia. War between Ethiopia and Eritrea is still going on, but it's not serious in Addis at the moment. Please keep it in your prayers for peaceful resolution. Grace and I are searched for houses. After we settle, we have new phone number, but here E-mail situation is the worst. We are not sure when we can get our personal E-mail. The electricity of Addis is going and coming and telephone, too. While we settle, please use the address of SIM Ethiopia.

The following is our current address.
P.O. Box 127, SIM Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Email:cushjkpark@hotmail.com

Tel: +251-1 552348(O) Fax: +251-1-511242(O) +251-1-711594(home)

We give all thanks for your prayers and concerns that we can come back to Ethiopia for God's work.

In Him,
Jong kook, Grace, Dae sun and Jee yeon