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Pastor Geon Won Park
Missionary Geon Won Park has been living in Panama for 35 years since September of 1988. While he was working at the Korean embassy, he met his friend from elementary school. His friend was dispatched to Panama as a soldier with permanent residency in the United States.
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At that time, he enjoyed snorkeling, fishing, and spear fishing in the Caribbean Sea with his friend. Then one day, he witnessed his friend who went into the deep sea suddenly got a cramp in the leg. So, he went in to save his friend and tried to hold his friend’s hand and pull him out, but in the end, only his friend’s water glove remained. He had no choice but to just watch his friend sinking down in the sea in a sitting down praying position. At that moment, he thought to himself ‘I can die together this way’ and the faces of precious people around him passed by
like a panorama, with the thought that many people were going to hell without knowing.
After losing his friend, he couldn’t go back under the sea and suffered from depression for five years. In the meantime, he studied theology, graduated from Baptist Theological Seminary in 1997, was ordained as a pastor in Dallas on April 7, and was sent out as a missionary.
However, he was scammed by an acquaintance and lost everything; the house he was building in Panama, sponsorship money, and retirement money. In September of 1997, he was sent out to Panama as a missionary again from a local church. He came back with nothing, but he held on to the words of Matthew 16:13-20, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God,” and began to evangelize to the locals in Panama.
The evangelism door opened in the field and many miracles occurred, but two years later, he stopped missionary work for a while and while praying, he was led into the jungle. As of right now, he has been ministering in many villages in the jungle for more than two decades, raising disciples and letting them do jungle ministry as pastors. He is in charge of Immanuel Church in Panama and runs the Panama seminary. About 79 seminary students are studying and he is also running a research institute. Through this seminary, he plans to send pastors who know the gospel and testify to 46 countries in South America.
He trains through online and rotational visiting ministry to 27 countries in South-Central America, and once or twice a year, 1200-1500 people are called to Panama for 40-day intensive training.
He needed a seminary building to train seminary students as pastors and leaders, so he prepared a site for the seminary building and is praying for the construction of the building now.
80% of South-Central American drugs pass through Panama, 857 tribes out of 5,000 tribes in the world are in the jungle. 50 countries in South-Central America are full of darkness caused by culture, witchcraft, the Marian idea, and the root of Catholicism, that have been passed on even without their own written languages and has taken control of their spiritual flow for long. The direction of missions should only be of the Christ and, of course, it must be a movement to save future generations. We must raise disciples, make Christ-centered seminarians, and change the spiritual flow by turning upright pastors into leaders. Please pray that by planting the covenant of Matthew 16:16 and imprinting, rooting, and changing one’s nature into the life of the evangelist so that this spiritual new order movement may continue to our descendants; from our generation to the next generation.
