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	Letter from Art and Sue Kinsler in Korea

	March 22, 2006 From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. Luke 12:48b Dear Friends around the world, Sue Kinsler took trips to North Korea in February and March and returned with a mandate to help another orphanage, assist in a program for the disabled in Pyongyang, and to begin providing soymilk and bread for young children in Haeryeong, North Hamkyung Province. To meet urgent needs and overwhelming opportunity, the budget for the Lighthouse Foundation in 2006 needs to expand three times over what was raised in 2005. We hope that our related churches can give as they gave last year, and for those who didn’t that they can begin support.

	I n North Korea, kindergarten teachers wear chef’s hats. Sue will provide soybean milk and roll-sized bread in Haeryeong, a remote city in North Korea's North Hamkyung Province.				On her trip from March 9 to 18, much of the time was spent in China receiving her visa in Beijing and getting soymilk machines to take directly across the border to Haeryeong in Yanji. It was a rare opportunity to visit where permission is not often given, to travel with three Canadian Koreans on a similar mission, and to be escorted from the border crossing by officials from Pyongyang. There were no paved roads, not even in Haeryeong, and other conditions as would be expected a long way northeast from the capital.

	In this city of 140,000, the invitation was to provide food for 2,000 young children in day care and kindergarten facilities, which were visited. Most children are undernourished, susceptible to sickness, and, without decent food, will grow up to be six inches shorter than their cousins in South Korea.

	In February, authorities in Pyongyang asked Sue and Lighthouse to take on support for the Mi Rim Orphanage and School. It has 471 children aged 7 to 16, and they will need school supplies in addition to clothing, medicine, and food. Since they are too far from the existing soymilk plant and bakery that Lighthouse supports, they will need similar equipment on a smaller scale.		Sue is handed the agreement from the Association for Helping the Disabled in Pyongyang.

	Another big breakthrough was that Sue received a written agreement granting permission to renovate and use 4,000 square feet of building space for programs to help North Korea’s disabled. Her efforts over some years to build a relationship with the North have now resulted in this unusual opportunity. Although the need is great, God will need to move people to provide the financial resources. To help the Korean Association for Supporting the Disabled in Pyongyang, the Lighthouse Foundation plans to sponsor physical therapy and vocational training programs and to provide hearing aids, wheelchairs, equipment for physical therapy, canes for the blind, and the machine for printing Braille. Our daughter Elaine in California has now been admitted to the hospital from her group home for a second time since February, and Sue leaves tomorrow to be with her. The problem seemed to be a virus, which caused fever, lethargy, loss of weight, and showed some symptom in the brain. This week she has improved but your prayers will be much appreciated. Serving Christ for you in Korea, Art and Sue Kinsler The 2006 Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study, p. 249

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