August 7, 2005

  • Hello, all. I write tonight as a bearer of sad news for us, but blessed news for my
    father. 

    The Rev. Dwight Dong Wan Kim passed away on Friday,
    August 6 on the evangelism and missions fields of Japan.  He died
    of a combined result of esophageal ulcers and liver/heart failure
    though he lived a healthy life.  He had been to Japan multiple
    times, my grandmother accompanying him as his translator, for the sake
    of world evangelization, and was martyred on the field of his life's
    work.  Upon the close of the 2005 World Remnant Conference he was
    admitted to Nagoya University Hospital. 

    As fitting for what his life represented, his funeral will be held in Japan on
    Tuesday, as a symbol of what he lived for, and what we, his
    family, are incredibly proud of.  There will be another memorial
    service in Los Angeles soon, for the Remnants, family, and friends here
    in the States.

    I'm partly writing this as a list of information, but more so because I
    want everyone to know only one thing, really.  My father, if
    nothing else, lived for one purpose, to tell every person in the world
    of Jesus who is the Christ.  It is the single most profoundly
    great inheritance I have received from him; it is the standard for
    every aspect of my life--and I
    thank God for such an amazing father, blessed to have realized it and
    firmly placed the baton of God's covenant in the hands of his amazing
    wife, two sons, and
    daughter. 

    In this difficult and surreal time, please pray not only for our family
    and friends because of our loss, but truly for us
    as Remnants of Christ to all the more firmly hold on to this covenant
    of the gospel; to confirm and reconfirm that why my father lived is the
    reason why we must live and go on; that the forces of darkness attacked because Satan was crippled and
    threatened, and rightly so; that God allowed it because he desires to
    bless us a hundredfold; that everything is in God's sovereignty,
    exactly where it should be, in its place, in its time, all of which are
    the absolute best.

    God loved my dad so much he called him home.  Believing that, I
    live the rest of my life to the fullest as he did, until God brings me
    home too, to be with him again in paradise. The peace of God
    truly transcends all understanding, guarding our hearts and minds in
    Christ Jesus, to hear the call and run the race and get the prize,
    giving all glory to God.

    In Christ~

     
     
                                
    Remnant Farmer
                 Rev. Dwight Dong Wan Kim
           February 8 1948 –
    August 6, 2005


        
        
                         
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    Watchman of the Light

    We will give ourselves no rest
    Till your kingdom comes on earth
    We've positioned watchmen on the walls
    Then our prayers will flow like tears
    For you've shared your heart with us
    God of heaven, on our knees we fall
    Come down, in power, reveal your heart again
    Come hear our cries, the tears that plead for rain
    We're knocking, knocking on the door of heaven
    We're crying, crying for this generation
    We're praying for your name to be known
    In all of the earth
    We're watching, watching on the walls to see you
    We're looking, looking for a time of breakthrough
    We're praying for your Word to bear fruit
    In all of the earth
    In all of the earth