Not just any Sunday

So today made one full month Teddy and I have been in South Korea. All I can say is..wow! We made it a whole month.. Now 11 more to go. We are still adjusting but are much more comfortable here in Korea than we were a few weeks ago. Although everything is still very new and exciting to us so I'm glad that part hasn't worn off yet. There's just so much to explore!

Speaking of exploring. We decided to go to Yoido Full Gospel Church this morning. If you haven't heard, this is the largest Christian church in the entire world. It's kind of a big deal. We were so excited about it. The church has seven different services on Sunday. There are about 830,000 members and the services are translated into 16 different languages. This church is an Assemblies of God church. I really don't know if they were speaking in tongues because it's all foreign to me. Ha!

The church is also located on an island in Korea which is pretty cool. So we got to the church and went to sit down. The church has good old fashioned pews. So we sit down on the first floor and the worship begins. Of course everything is in Korean so we're just watching everything then a man comes up to us and tells us that we are not sitting in the right spot. So he tells us to follow him and he leads us up to the balcony and we sit in the foreigner section. We also get some headphones that we plug in to this cassett player thing so we can hear the service in English. The worship was contemporary. There was a man playing the guitar and about 6 other people around him singing. There were also about 10 young women dancing to the music. They were jumping up and down and kicking their feet up and it was just really cool. There are no words to describe how amazing it was to sing in English while hearing thousands of Koreans worshipping in their language. It was beautiful. It made me think of what it's going to sound like in Heaven when we are all worshipping one God in so many different languages. After the contemporary worship was over then the choir started and they sang very traditional hymns. It was also beautiful. I have never seen a blended worship service like this before. Everyone seemed happy with both styles of music though. We listened to the sermon and continued to worship more after that. The sermon was in Korean though we listened to a translator through our headphones. This wasn't the easiest thing to do. It's really hard to concentrate on the message when you are hearing two voices. But all in all we enjoyed our experience there. We took lots of pictures for everyone to see what it looks like. Hope you enjoy.