The Good Doctor

The Good Doctor by Sai R. Park, M.D., is available from March 2011 to order. Order now by contacting SAM Oceania (samoceania@hotmail.com or 02 9804 0788) and receive a FREE NIV Bible (while stocks last). The Good Doctor chronicles the inner journey of a medical missionary, who struggled as a child during war-torn Korea, only to find his way back to his fatherland to help the people who suffer as he once did.

Published in 2004, the Korean version of The Good Doctor achieved the Best Seller of Christian Books.

2010 Short term medical mission trip

SAM Oceania 2010 short term medical mission trip!

New 9 members are now back from Jib-ahn, Dan-dong and Jang-baek medical mission trip!

Emergency Rescue 2010

5th Medical Mission trip!

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"On year 2010, SAM is once again
looking for the like minded medical volunteers to share the pains and give out love of God at China. Help of non-medical volunteers are in desperate need."

SAM Oceania is going to have 5th short term medical mission trip to China in area Jang Baek and Dandong province.






Where? China - Jang Baek / Dandong province

When? 17/August/2010 ~ 25/August/2010

Cost? Flight + Accomodation = $ 2,300 (AUS)



How to apply? Application fee of $100 required on the date of application




Please give us call to 02 9804 0788 or email to samoceania@hotmail.com

Broken Heart - Letter from mission field

Shalom everyone! Greetings to you in the name of the Lord.
Spring is upon us and I see glimpses of green peeking through the receding winter. Trickles of water are beginning to flow under slowly melting ice and the early
spring rain refreshes us all. Sadly, the same cannot be said about the land across the Yalu River. There are no signs of life or vitality along the bleak North Korean river banks.

I paid a visit to one of the underground churches we help to support and met two North Korean women. Each had originally obtained permission from the North Korean government to legally cross the border over into China, but those approvals had long since expired for both. It was now illegal for them to be in China, but it was also dangerous for them to return to North Korea with expired approvals. Mrs. A (54 years of age) had originally obtained her approval to cross over into China with great di culty and now wanted nothing more than to return home to her family.

When she had rst arrived, she had come upon some of our missionaries during their visit to this underground church and through them - for the rst time in her life – was introduced to our Lord Jesus and given a Bible. She eventually came to accept Christ and worked hard to earn money from random jobs. Her steady progress was bliterated on the day her earnings were completely swindled by some Chinese. Unwilling to go back to her starving family empty-handed she stayed in China to keep working at a rate of three dollars per day. Because she had chosen to stay, earn money and not return home before her approval had expired, she was now an illegal refugee and could not stay, but it was also not safe for her to go. Her desperation to return home augmented exponentially with the news that her only child had contracted pneumonia and was slowly dying.

Such heartbreaking tales of human tragedies are endless. I could not possibly convey the fullness of the sorrow and suffering going on here, with this letter.

Mrs. B (42 years of age) came to China last October and her approval to stay was also now expired. During the rst months of her stay, Mrs. B had met some of the members of this underground church, and was introduced to the Gospel. She has now committed her life to Christ and has decided to study the Bible full time.

When she had lived in North Korea, her son was drafted into the North Korean military. Upon paying him a visit, she found him to be extremely emaciated. He had been given only a handful of rice and a few sprinkles of salt to eat twice a day. She proceeded to pack fermented soybean paste into a toothpaste tube so that her son could disguise the fact that his mother had given him a little bit more to eat, to help bolster his nutrition. It was too little, too late. Her son eventually succumbed to severe malnutrition.

Before returning to the hospital, my colleagues and I gave both of these women clothing, medicine, and a little bit of money. However, we knew that this would not sustain them for long. For them, survival along these border regions would be a real fight for life. When I think about the other 300,000 North Korean refugees subsisting along these border regions in the same dire predicament as these two women, my heart weeps.

Six excruciating decades have passed since the Korean Peninsula was violently partitioned into two opposing nations. How long must our North Korean brethren endure unimaginable pain and su ering, and how long must we remain idled in our ability to really help them? If our heart breaks for them, how much more does His heart break? May we hold to the truth that His mighty reach is not too short. For He who did not spare even His own Son will surely not withhold His saving grace and healing mercies upon His most helpless children.

- Missionary K -

Live kept in the roughness, the Special Vitamins.

This is a true story when 10,000 love-bags (Medicine and Medical equipments bag) were supplied to North Korea during December year 2004.

The worst circumstance of North Korea would be lack of food supply, however poor condition of medical equipments cannot be less considered. Over many years Cider bottle has replaced ringer and patients are open to infectious diseases and hepatitis by using same injection needle which has been grind on whetstone due to lack of disposable injection needle supply.

To support such inferior medical environment, SAM had brought 10,000 love-bags for them. However, due to insufficient size of place and numbers of people to pack up the medical equipments and SAM had to visited Shin-Eu state of North Korea to team up with North Korean Citizens.

3 days have past since the commencement of packing medical equipments. There was a theft entered into medicine storage warehouse by cutting through the roof and had the medicines stolen. The theft has soon found after enquiring investigation to public officials. Surprisingly theft was a ten years old little child. It has found to be the truth was, the child has surrendered himself. The poor child heard that precious medicine has came over from America, and risked himself to save his weak and ill mother who collapsed due to severe hunger. However, since the medicine was written over in English the poor child gave overdosed of antibiotics by misunderstanding it as vitamins.

His mother’s face became yellow and severe aftereffect came up after eating too many antibiotics. The child has got frightened and surrendered to ask help. SAM members dismissed the child who was bursting in tears and asking help to save his mum, back to home with vitamins and little bit of caution. Nonetheless, we couldn’t resist the complicated emotions and sadness. ‘ Vitamins are uncontrollable as they are over flooding in America……’ this memory has kept until now as God has send us a message.
- C Missionary, from Ap–Rok River

‘SAM loving Pyong-Yang medicine factory (completed construction during December year 2007)’ was a realization of efforts and prayers with inspiration hopes from previous sad memory of the poor child of North Korea.

This year May, when SAM team members has visited the factory, we could see the vitamins for children and pregnant mothers which has been produced with the technology, machines and resources that we have funded. There were many troubles till these final vitamins to came out in North Korea for the first time. However SAM logo was imbedded on the medicine (that might seems bit course and rough) to fulfill the supplying the every parts of North Korea.

Help the North Korea children who survived through eating ‘Nutrinut’ to continuously able to get ongoing vitamin support. Your small devotion can save one life.

"Crossing" - Movie review

MOVIE : " Crossing " - A True Story About North Korean Defector.

When one sits down to watch a movie like "Crossing" - the story of a man who leaves North Korea to help his wife but never makes it back, and of his young son's long journey to find him - despite all the suffering and horror, one naturally expects everything to work out. But in Crossing, almost nothing does.

Recently, our SAM short term mission trip members gathered together to watch the movie. " Crossing". It is highly dramatic yet based on true story of North Korean defectors. SAM would, therefore, like to share this movie review with everyone and I strongly encourage people to watch this movie for the purpose of SAM's mission.

Kim Yong-soo (Cha In-pyo) is a once-famous North Korean football player who now works in a coal mine in South Hamgyong Province. He lives in a small earthen house with his wife and son, Jun-i (Sin Myeong-cheol) : Left and underneath side picture.

*Movie picture: Father (Kim Yong-Soo) and son (Jun-i) before getting seperated to find medicine and food

Yong-soo and Jun-i lead difficult but happy lives, playing football together and marveling at the technological wonders (for example, Whisky and Bibles) their family friends have smuggled in from China. But Yong-soo's wife is stricken with tuberculosis due to malnutrition, and because she is also pregnant, she requires special medication that is unavailable in North Korea. With his smuggler friend sent to a labor camp, Yong-soo is forced to cross the Tumen River into China to find the pills his wife needs.

Eventually Yong-soo finds a job, but when Chinese security forces start clamping down on the border, his boss tricks him into fleeing for South Korea. There he is ostracized even among the refugees for "abandoning" his family.

*Movie picture: Father (Kim Yong-Soo) is running away from Chinese security after crossing border line of North Korea to China while working with other defectors.



*Movie picture: Kim Yong-Soo and other defectors are trying to enter into German Embassy of China. And Chinese security guards are blocking them from entering

Meanwhile, Jun-i sets off after his father on a long and painful journey.Crossing is full of the sort of terrible scenes that are literally unimaginable - they could only come from real life. Jun-i learns to sleep with his shoes on to keep them from being stolen. In a gulag he chases a mouse into a room full of rotting corpses.

*Movie picture: Jun-i (son) and his friend is getting caught by North Korean Guards. Then, sent to the hard labour re-education camp.

And Yong-soo, after reading the Bible, wonders aloud why "God only lives in South Korea". For Jun-i and Yong-soo, life is a series of painful separations they are helpless to stop.

And for Yong-soo as he could not save his wife and son, life in South Korea, far from being liberating, is a forced exile.

Crossing is indeed a universal lament for refugees. Perhaps this film will inspire us to take action to help the millions of displaced people around the globe who have been seperated from their homes, friends and families.

Now, please spread your word to your friend and family to watch this movie. This is a not just a sad story, but cryout from the God to us to become his hands and foot to save the lives of North Koreans. Obviously, for political reason, it is not possible to enter into the country and help the poor. However, if all of us pray out loud thoughout the all nations, I am sure God will act upon as soon as time comes. If you not do it, nobody else can.

I urge everyone to watch "Crossing" , Genre: Drama / Korean with English subtitles112 min.