Korean New Hope Assembly of God

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The absolute worst

"This is me at 21 years old. This is the day I graduated from the Detroit police academy at 4:00pm, went home and took a couple hour nap, woke up at 9:30 that night and reported to my first tour of duty at the 12th Precinct for midnight shift. Look at that smile on my face. I couldn't have been more excited, more proud. Armed with my dad's badge that he wore for 25 years on my chest, one of my mom's sergeant stripe patches in my pocket, my lucky $2.00 bill tucked into my bulletproof vest, a gun I was barely old enough to purchase bullets for on my hip and enough naive courage for a small army, I headed out the door...my mom snapped this photo on my way.
The next 17 years would bring plenty of shed blood, black eyes, torn ligaments, stab wounds, stitches, funerals, a head injury, permanent and irreparable nerve damage, 5 ruptured discs, some charming PTSD and depression issues and a whole lot of heartache. They brought missed Christmases with my family, my absence from friends' birthday get-togethers, pricey concert tickets that were forfeited at the last minute because of a late call and many sleepless nights.
I've laid in wet grass on the freeway for three hours watching a team of burglars and orchestrating their apprehension, I've dodged gunfire while running down a dark alley in the middle of the night chasing a shooting suspect, I've argued with women who were too scared to leave their abusive husbands until they realized they had to or they would end up dead. I've peeled a dead, burned baby from the front of my uniform shirt, I've felt the pride of putting handcuffs on a serial ra**st and I've cried on the chest of and kissed the cheek of my dead friend, coworker and academy classmate even though it was covered in his own dried blood and didn't even look like him from all the bullet holes. I know what a bullet sounds like when it's whizzing past your ear, a few inches away, I know what the sound of a Mother's shrilling scream is like when she finds out her son has been killed in the middle of the street and I know what it's like to have to tell a wife and mother of 3 that her husband was killed in a car accident while on his way home from work.
Smells, pictures, sounds and sights are burned and engrained into our minds...things we can never forget, no matter how hard we try; things that haunt our sleep at night and our thoughts during the day; things that we volunteered to deal with so that you don't have to. Things I don't want my sister, little cousins or YOU to even have to KNOW about.
I never once went to work thinking, "I'm gonna beat someone tonight."; "Hmmm...I think I'm gonna kill someone tonight." I DID, however, go to work every night, knowing that I was going to do the best I could to keep good people safe, even if that meant that I died doing so.
We ALL need to start being more understanding and compassionate toward one another. Violence doesn't cure violence and hate doesn't cure hate. I've seen and experienced both sides of the spectrum since I left the PD and I get it. I truly do. But this all has to stop.
Are cops perfect? No. Are there bad cops? Yes. But please...understand that the vast majority of police are good, loving, well intentioned family people. They have husbands and wives and children and parents and pets and cousins and mortgages and electric bills and lawns that need cutting, just like you. They have hearts and consciences. They aren't robots, they're not machines and they just want to help keep the wolves away from the sheep. I KNOW there's people who don't deserve to wear the badge but they're SO VERY few and far between. It breaks my heart to see all this hatred and anger flying around. All it's doing is encouraging more of the same.
If you've read this far, thank you for listening. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that if you hate or don't support one side or the other, to unfriend me and never speak to me again...I hope those are the people who come straight TO me. Because I'll be more than happy to hug you and pray or meditate with you. I'll be more than happy to listen to your concerns and let you vent and empathize with your feelings. But then I'll encourage you to help me find a solution to end all this nonsense because if we're not part of the solution, we're part of the problem. Love to all of you. ALL OF YOU. We're all SO much better than this." ❤️✌🏼

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During the remodeling, it was discovered there was a leak in the gas pipe. Gas was shut off to the building--which means the furnaces were shut off. To counter the cold weather and heatless building, service was held in the basement (easier to heat with space heaters). Pictured is the choir singing before the service. Hopefully the gas situation will be resolved this week before it gets any colder.

Korean New Hope Assembly of God updated their address.

Missionaries to Cambodia - Heart of Hope Cambodia - Coleen Briggs and Bic visit Korean New Hope Assembly of God Church in Grand Rapids.
Heart of Hope Cambodia can be reached at [email protected]
Vin Sopheavy (Bic) can be contacted at [email protected].
Their website is www.heartofhopecam.org.
To donate, https://orphanos.donate (choose Heart of Hope from drop down menu).

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Christmas Sunday Service and Fellowship 12-23-2018

Guest Pastor

Sign of the season...

Easter Sunday Service

Pastor Daniel Choi

Welcome Pastor Daniel Choi and his wife, Diana.

창세기 32:21-31

GENESIS 32:21-31

21 그 예물은 그의 앞서 행하고 그는 무리 가운데서 경야하다가

22밤에 일어나 두 아내와 두 여종과 열 한 아들을 인도하여 얍복 나루를 건널쌔

23그들을 인도하여 시내를 건네며 그 소유도 건네고

24야곱은 홀로 남았더니 어떤 사람이 날이 새도록 야곱과 씨름하다가

25그 사람이 자기가 야곱을 이기지 못함을 보고 야곱의 환도뼈를 치매 야곱의 환도뼈가 그 사람과 씨름할 때에 위골되었더라

26그 사람이 가로되 날이 새려하니 나로 가게 하라 야곱이 가로되 당신이 내게 축복하지 아니하면 가게 하지 아니하겠나이다

27 그 사람이 그에게 이르되 네 이름이 무엇이냐 그가 가로되 야곱이니이다

28그 사람이 가로되 네 이름을 다시는 야곱이라 부를 것이 아니요 이스라엘이라 부를 것이니 이는 네가 하나님과 사람으로 더불어 겨루어 이기었음이니라

29 야곱이 청하여 가로되 당신의 이름을 고하소서 그 사람이 가로되 어찌 내 이름을 묻느냐 하고 거기서 야곱에게 축복한지라

30그러므로 야곱이 그곳 이름을 브니엘이라 하였으니 그가 이르기를 내가 하나님과 대면하여 보았으나 내 생명이 보전되었다 함이더라

31 그가 브니엘을 지날 때에 해가 돋았고 그 환도뼈로 인하여 절었더라

요나 2:1-10
JONAH 2.1-10


1요나가 물고기 뱃속에서 그 하나님 여호와께 기도하여

2가로되 내가 받는 고난을 인하여 여호와께 불러 아뢰었삽더니 주께서 내게 대답하셨고 내가 스올의 뱃속에서 부르짖었삽더니 주께서 나의 음성을 들으셨나이다

3 주께서 나를 깊음속 바다 가운데 던지셨으므로 큰 물이 나를 둘렀고 주의 파도와 큰 물결이 다 내 위에 넘쳤나이다

4 내가 말하기를 내가 주의 목전에서 쫓겨났을찌라도 다시 주의 성전을 바라보겠다 하였나이다

5물이 나를 둘렀으되 영혼까지 하였사오며 깊음이 나를 에웠고 바다 풀이 내 머리를 쌌나이다

6 내가 산의 뿌리까지 내려갔사오며 땅이 그 빗장으로 나를 오래도록 막았사오나 나의 하나님 여호와여 주께서 내 생명을 구덩이에서 건지셨나이다

7내 영혼이 내 속에서 피곤할 때에 내가 여호와를 생각하였삽더니 내 기도가 주께 이르렀사오며 주의 성전에 미쳤나이다

8 무릇 거짓되고 헛된 것을 숭상하는 자는 자기에게 베푸신 은혜를 버렸사오나

9 나는 감사하는 목소리로 주께 제사를 드리며 나의 서원을 주께 갚겠나이다 구원은 여호와께로서 말미암나이다 하니라

10 여호와께서 그 물고기에게 명하시매 요나를 육지에 토하니라

(Romans) 로마서 11:29-36

29 하나님의 은사와 부르심에는 후회하심이 없느니라

30 너희가 전에 하나님께 순종치 아니하더니 이스라엘의 순종치 아니함으로 이제 긍휼을 입었는지라

31 이와 같이 이 사람들이 순종치 아니하니 이는 너희에게 베푸시는 긍휼로 이제 저희도 긍휼을 얻게 하려 하심이니라

32 하나님이 모든 사람을 순종치 아니하는 가운데 가두어 두심은 모든 사람에게 긍휼을 베풀려 하심이로다

33 깊도다 하나님의 지혜와 지식의 부요함이여, 그의 판단은 측량치 못할것이며 그의 길은 찾지 못할 것이로다

34 누가 주의 마음을 알았느뇨 누가 그의 모사가 되었느뇨

35 누가 주께 먼저 드려서 갚으심을 받겠느뇨

36 이는 만물이 주에게서 나오고 주로 말미암고 주에게로 돌아감이라 영광이 그에게 세세에 있으리로다 아멘

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