On Monday 6, March, 2006 I drove to Imphal Airport to see off my sister via Kolkota to France. While inside the Airdrome I had met some acquaintance of great personalities like Prof. Nanda Kumar Sharma, a great Physicist in Manipur University who regularly contributes inspiring articles on “The year of Physic 2005” in the esteemed Sunday special edition Sangai Express (English daily newspaper). I also met U(Tamo) Rev. Jonathan Pudaite who is an administrative officer of Trinity Bible College of Sielmat in Churachandpur who was waiting for some important things for those delegates who came from USA. But most surprisingly, I saw an old man of fair complexion putting on a tribal bamboo hat with a crocodile smile. When I approached him nearer I couldn`t believe my eyes..! It was none other than Uncle Rev. Koh Hae Sung who attended the ICI General Assembly at Saikawt, Churachandpur, as the representative of Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Korea (PROK) South Korea. We greeted each other saying ‘komatshumnida’, ‘Bangapshumnida’…I knew him personally way back in 2004 during my college days in New Delhi. As he has been a man of heart and full of compassion, we used to call him Uncle Sunga (‘Sunga’ is a Mizo version name of a masculine gender).

Thus, after having a short tittle-tattle with Uncle Rev. Sunga, he handed over to me his short speech during the ICI General Assembly session at Saikot, Churachandpur and then disappeared inside the security check. His short speech runs as follows: Brothers and sisters in Christ! I am very happy to be in your midst again as representative of the Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Korea (PROK). I bring warmest greetings and good wishes from my people to you all and the success of this General Assembly in Manipur. I am especially happy to stand before you in this Church that was built and dedicated to the memory of the father of Deacon Kim Sook Kyong of Sin-Am Church for the glory of God.

I have been coming to India and Manipur on and off for the past fifteen years. I spent more of my retired life in India than in my own country. My mission is to spread God’s love and salvation to the people of India whom I love and admire. By divine will and wisdom and not by my calculation, I had first came to associate with the Hmar-Mizo people through brother L.B Sinate who bought me and introduced me to the Delhi Hmar-Mizo Christian Fellowship and later to the Independent Church of India. Since then, I became a part and parcel of the Hmar community and their mission. In fact, I have become half Korean, half Hmar. That is why I always say: KA HMANGAI TALUO CHEU (I love you so much).

Many of you would already know that I have brought only a simple message that is eternal truth. That message is LOVE. God is love. Every good thing flows out of this. If we love one another, God lives in union with us and his love is made perfect in us. Love means CARE. You care for the people you love. If you care, you want to do good things for them. But your desire to do good things has to be translated into action. If you meet your brother in need and tell him that you love him so much but leave him without helping him at all, your love and care for him is meaningless. Therefore, care means SERVICE. Caring is serving, helping and giving-physically and spiritually. We must be those who care.

I came to India with this mission in mind. God gave me a purpose and a vision to serve him and spread his message of love and salvation to the people of India. With the help of brothers Mr. L. B. Sinate, Mr. Kawllienthang and others, one of my vision had come gradually into a concrete shape in May 1996 when a plot of land was bought in South Delhi near the International Indira Gandhi Airport for the construction of Bethesda Social Service Centre (BSSC) with the financial and prayer support from the Sin-Am Church and the Chodong Church from Seoul. This project ultimately went to the Independent Church of India (ICI). And the BSSC has now become the main anchor of our ties between the PROOK to which I belong and the ICI. The other project initiated by me at that time was Bethany School at Shiv Vihar in west Delhi which had gone to the Delhi Hmar-Mizo Christian Fellowship.

Though the initial progress of BSSC fell far short of the expectations of the donors, I am glad to inform you that it is now making good progress. Believers from all nationalities worship every Sunday. It runs free medical clinic and basic education for the poor and the slum dwellers. It provides facilities for lodging, camping to gospel seekers that are many and for conducting seminars and meetings at regular intervals. Many have met and received Christ as their personal savior in these camping from this Centre.

I am also happy to inform you that cooperation between PROK members and the ICI has been increasing in 2005 particularly in the construction of Sielmat Bible College and the provision of more scholarships for theological studies in Churachandpur. I hope and pray that it will increase further in 2006 for the glory of God. With the departure of Rev. Lalneikhup Hmar for further studies in South Korea in February, 2006, BSSC is at present without a Superintendent. I trust that God will give us the wisdom to appoint the right man for this important post and I have been praying for it. We recognize that whoever sits in this post stand as a window between PROK and ICI.

Lastly, I am now 72 years young and I do not know how long I will be with you. Whatever way the Lord ordains, my desire is to see the relations between PROK and ICI grow bigger and bigger in years to come to the glory of God and the extension of His Kingdom on earth. Love and care one another as children of God. May God bless you all..!