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 -