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Ministry Description

Our Role: Mainland Camp & Outreach Team Coordinator

Purpose: To oversee the ministry and care of the WOLKO mainland camp and outreach team so that the hope of Jesus is shared with Korean youth, and youth leaders are equipped to mobilize students to reach their generation.

Core Responsibilities:
1. To nurture camp and outreach team members through biblical leadership, instruction, counsel, and consistent example (including care for family members serving in Korea).
2. To participate in the field's programs and activities alongside team members.
3. To manage the day to day operations of the camp and outreach team.
4. To ensure that every program, lesson, outreach, and event is centered on clear, full, and bold gospel proclamation and faithful teaching of Scripture.
5. To lead the team in creating connections with local churches so that they can receive ongoing training and resources from WOLKO—ensuring that the impact of each camp or outreach extends far beyond a single touchpoint.

Learn more about the ministry in South Korea Mainland.

About Jason

When I was just seven years old, the terrifying reality of hell gripped my heart. Wanting to know how I could escape such a place, I asked my father how I could be sure I would not go to hell. He sat me down in the living room of our home and carefully walked me through the gospel, emphasizing my need for Jesus Christ alone. At the end, I prayed with my father and went on with life.
As I grew older, however, instead of growing closer to God, I drifted further away from Him. I chose to go my own way, indulging in sin and chasing pleasure. Before long, my life became a complete mess. I hid my sinful lifestyle from my family and from everyone at church, living a double life. (James 4:13-17)
It took a near-death experience, a 30-foot fall down a mountainside, to wake me up and cause me to start seeking God again. Not long after, I attended a young adults’ retreat at a church and ended up staying at their youth camp for the rest of the summer. It was there that I fell in love with the Word of God and began to realize just how little I truly knew about Him. (Matt 7:21-23)
That growing passion led me to attend Word of Life Bible Institute in Schroon Lake, New York, to study God’s Word more deeply. During my time there, I came to understand the true reality of the gospel. No matter how far I had wandered, God extended His hand of mercy to me through the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In my first month at Bible school, as I memorized Scripture for class and read the Bible daily, God began to teach me more and more about His gospel. One day during that first month, I went down to the edge of the lake to be alone with God. There, I examined my heart, repented of my sin, and put my faith fully in Jesus Christ. From that moment on, my life was transformed by His grace, and I gained complete assurance of my salvation. (Luke 5:32, Romans 10:9)
I continued studying at Bible school for two years. During that time, after attending a missions’ conference and hearing about the great need for missionaries and pastors around the world, my heart grew increasingly burdened for the lost. I did not yet know where I would go or what I would do, but I was willing to go wherever God would send me. (Matt 9:36-38)
Shortly after that conference, I was given the opportunity to serve with Word of Life Korea. A year later, I married my wife, Chanjoo, a Korean woman who had also attended Word of Life Bible Institute and was serving as a missionary in South Korea.
Today, I live in Korea full-time, serving to tell others, especially young people, about the same gospel that brought me from death to life.

About ChanJoo

I grew up in Christian family and my dad started his pastoring during my teenage years. I would identify myself as a Christian because I went to church, prayed and knew the Word. During my highschool years I started realizing doing all these religious things was a burden , and was busy and asked myself why I was doing it. I did it because my family did it, instead of putting my faith in Jesus I put my parent’s faith on myself. I knew Jesus but didn’t have a relationship with Him. In the college I started going through confusing times and put myself in deep sin. Nothing could satisfiy me and that led me to more sins and lying. I tried to hide this from my parents but it was obvious that I was not walking with God. My dad had me go to SYME (Student Youth Ministry in English), and in one of the English classes the teacher always opened up a class with a passage from God’s Word and that day she was reading the book of Hosea,. After she read the book of Hosea I was confused and couldn’t focus on the class. For days I asked God why He would make Hosea who was a faithful servant to Him be married to Gomer that was a prostitute. And again after Gomer ran away God asked Hosea to go back to Gomer and get her back. From that passage I realize that I wasn’t any different than Gomer and Hosea was representing Jesus Christ. God wrote that book way before Jesus came to the world to show the illustration of the Gospel. We all belong to God but we are separated from Him because of sin. But to fill that emptiness I gave myself into idols just like Gomer. But God sent His only perfect Son who knew no sin into this world so that He can pay for our sins just like Hosea. I repented of my sins and asked Him to be the Lord of my life and gave my life to Him.
There are many churches in South Korea but rarely any youth in churches. I want to share the Gospel to those young people who grew up in churches or claim they are a Christian but don’t understand the Gospel so that they will share the Gospel with those around them.
Learning English is big in Korea, and I pray that God will use my international marriage and my kids for a tool for His ministry. My testimony will never stop until I meet Him again and He is still working in my life everyday!

But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Galatians 6:14

Contact Information

jaanderson@wol.org
WhatsApp: +82 010-8109-5246
jasonand96@gmail.com
chanjoo7@naver.com
Mobile: 8201081095246
29 St Croix St
McAdam, NB