NK Action Center

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Intern Director of Operations - Kristi

FROM THE DIRECTOR

The World Center for North Korea Missions (NK Missions) is very excited to have Kristi working with us this summer. Her position, Intern Director of Operations, is a crucial role in our organization and movement. She will be having key roles in directing projects, coordinating mission training, mobilizing workers, and networking.

We believe that now is an urgent time to mobilize and prepare for North Korea missions. If North Korea were to open up today, the Church would be unprepared to address the needs of millions of hungry souls. We are working urgently to stir movements for prayer, training, Bible storage, and church planting. Kristi will play an integral role in all of these campaigns.

NK Missions regrets that we will not be able to financially support Kristi for her work. Currently none of our staff is paid. I would like to encourage you to partner with Kristi this summer in her courageous work for North Korea missions. Please consider offering your prayer and financial support. Thank you.

Yours,
NK Dave, Director

how to support Kristi

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KRISTI'S SUPPORT LETTER

My name is Kristi, and I am a senior in college. I will actually be graduating this coming winter, so I believe that this summer will provide crucial experiences that will guide my direction in life before I complete my college career. My passions have led me to dedicate my summer to become a voice and an activist for the suffering victims in North Korea. God planted seeds of empathy from my early childhood that sparked my desire to commit my services and heart to the people of North Korea, but last year, God grew these seeds and finally matured compassion into taking initiative and action. This is a new and unfamiliar journey that I have decided to take, so I am writing this letter to find individuals who are would be willing to provide prayer support, but more urgently, financial support.

From my early youth, God has nurtured empathy in my heart for North Korea. In first grade, I remember watching the Korean news with my parents and listening to them explain the harrowing tale of how a young South Korean woman defected from North Korea. I bombarded them with questions like "Why can't we go to North Korea? Why are there two Koreas? Why don't we like them?" I told my parents that one day, I would go to North Korea and help unite the two Koreas. Life continued on and God opened my eyes again in high school through an investigative video of North Korea that my church screened. This documentary was filmed by a South Korean reporter who secretly captured the heartbreaking images of the North Korean street children, orphaned and dying on the streets without food or shelter. As tears filled my eyes, I was thinking of numerous ways to collect money to send to those destitute and abandoned children. I was never able to carry through with my initiative and my energy was diverted elsewhere until, in college, I co-directed a conference on North and South Korea relations through the Korean American Student Association after reading Helie Lee's Still Life with Rice. I was privileged to meet Helie Lee through that conference, and that was when I realized that if my heart and energy were unrelenting and passionate as hers, I could truly make a difference as well. Immediately after that school year, I studied abroad in Japan during a period in which North Korea emerged from its seclusion and shocked the world as an intimidating military and nuclear power. I was most affected by the images of the North Korean family who desperately struggled to seek refuge within the gates of the Japanese embassy in China. I promised myself that once I returned to America, I would find a way to help these North Korean refugees. Here I am today, following this promise.

I have been accepted as a summer intern for NK Missions with the position of Intern Director of Operations. My responsibilities include administrative duties, mobilization of potential volunteers, website maintenance, fundraising, training, and directing projects. I know that I will absorb so much important information regarding North Korea and the integral aspects of preparing for missions with North Korea as the target country. However, one of my biggest worries this summer in pursuing this internship is finance. This internship is non-paying because NK Missions is a financially struggling organization itself. My summer financial needs total $2000, the bulk of which consists of the summer earnings that is a required part of my tuition to Amherst College. Earning this money would allow me to fully dedicate my summer to NK Missions. I am praying that God will provide the funds that I need and that He will lead me in devoting my energy to what He desires me to do this summer.

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Thank you very much for your time and consideration. May God be blessing all your endeavors!

Sincerely,
Kristi