austraLasia #1674
Korean missionary fires up Friends of the Sudan Mission in Seoul
SEOUL: 29th Ocotber 2006 -- Korea's first Salesian to be a missionary in the Sudan, Fr John Lee Tae Seok (cf austraLasia #1015) has returned home for a short break, and is intent on developing the support already garnered from his online café friends (www.daurn.net). Today, 29th October - and the feast of Bl. Michael Rua, incidentally - the Friends of the Sudan Mission are holding a concert in Seoul to raise money to help children who are part of the Tonj mission where Fr Lee works.
Fr Lee, a native of Busan, South Korea, graduated from In Jae University Medical Faculty before departing for Sudan in 2001. As a Salesian and a doctor he brings a distinctive form of pastoral health care to an area now recovering from years of conflict and where children are still at risk from unexploded munitions, general health problems, and some are sufferers of Hansen's Disease. The concert organised by his friends and well-wishers is being held at the Korean Medical Federation building's Dong Ah Hall. Books, a DVD, T Shirts are also on sale. Fr Lee's experiences have been written up in a 150 page illustrated work by a Korean writer, published in Seoul in 2005. It is titled 'African Sunshine is Still Sad' and is now in its 3rd edition. All proceeds from the event are earmarked for the development of the Salesian school in Tomj.
The work in Tonj and elsewhere in the Sudan is the subject of this year's mission animation notes and dvd put out by the Mission Department in Rome. Another pointer to Salesian work in the Sudan and support from Don Bosco Network NGO activities based in Europe is available from the www.sdb.org home page current FOCUS section. With the strong emphasis this year on Salesian work in Sudan, no surprise that 9 new missionaries have been assigned there this year. Fr Henry Woo from Korea has responded to the appeal for more Koreans to consider a missionary experience, and received his mission cross on 1st October this year. He will be assigned to Sudan
Fr Lee returns to Tonj on 3rd November.
GLOSSARY
Garner: meaning 'to collect'; same root as the word we get 'granary' from, for storage of grain.
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Korean missionary fires up Friends of the Sudan Mission in Seoul
SEOUL: 29th Ocotber 2006 -- Korea's first Salesian to be a missionary in the Sudan, Fr John Lee Tae Seok (cf austraLasia #1015) has returned home for a short break, and is intent on developing the support already garnered from his online café friends (www.daurn.net). Today, 29th October - and the feast of Bl. Michael Rua, incidentally - the Friends of the Sudan Mission are holding a concert in Seoul to raise money to help children who are part of the Tonj mission where Fr Lee works.
Fr Lee, a native of Busan, South Korea, graduated from In Jae University Medical Faculty before departing for Sudan in 2001. As a Salesian and a doctor he brings a distinctive form of pastoral health care to an area now recovering from years of conflict and where children are still at risk from unexploded munitions, general health problems, and some are sufferers of Hansen's Disease. The concert organised by his friends and well-wishers is being held at the Korean Medical Federation building's Dong Ah Hall. Books, a DVD, T Shirts are also on sale. Fr Lee's experiences have been written up in a 150 page illustrated work by a Korean writer, published in Seoul in 2005. It is titled 'African Sunshine is Still Sad' and is now in its 3rd edition. All proceeds from the event are earmarked for the development of the Salesian school in Tomj.
The work in Tonj and elsewhere in the Sudan is the subject of this year's mission animation notes and dvd put out by the Mission Department in Rome. Another pointer to Salesian work in the Sudan and support from Don Bosco Network NGO activities based in Europe is available from the www.sdb.org home page current FOCUS section. With the strong emphasis this year on Salesian work in Sudan, no surprise that 9 new missionaries have been assigned there this year. Fr Henry Woo from Korea has responded to the appeal for more Koreans to consider a missionary experience, and received his mission cross on 1st October this year. He will be assigned to Sudan
Fr Lee returns to Tonj on 3rd November.
GLOSSARY
Garner: meaning 'to collect'; same root as the word we get 'granary' from, for storage of grain.
___________________
AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com Use BoscoWiki to be interactive. RSS feeds - subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/RSS/rssala.xm A separate service entirely is called F/OSSERVATORE to help us keep abreast of trends in the digital world. To contact austraLasia by voice on Skype, the Skype name is austraLasia.
