i spent the past few days at the jama conference. over 7,000 people (mostly korean) gathered in philadelphia. great speakers like john piper & francis chan. great musicians like delirious & dave crowder band. but my favorite band was the main worship band led by danny oertli. he was gracious enough to work w/musicians & singers from local korean churches. my official title was "point leader" for this worship team. so i did all the logistics & ran all the errands for the team. three of the singers were from my church. the whole team stepped up bigtime. none of them ever played an event this big, but they pulled it all together last-minute & did an awesome job.when i was running an errand backstage in the "green room", francis chan was hanging out back there. i didn't want to act like a "groupie" so i didn't go up to him. but then someone introduced me to him & asked me to give him a summary of john piper's sermon. it was such a cool opportunity to talk to francis chan.
john piper said something interesting in his seminar. this is a paraphrase, "your faces (korean) are more welcome around the world than my face (caucasian). your faces will not cause the same negative reactions/emotions that my face will cause." he went on to say that korea has been blessed w/the gospel more than other asian countries (for example, japan). & there is a reason for this blessing. he believes strongly that koreans & korean-americans have a special calling to world missions.
more pics of the worship team can be found at... share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AbtWrNu5bsmLCmA
