The first pasture : a Korean-American pastor's poetic reflection / Manwoo A. Kim; translated by Onyoo Elizabeth Kim. [print]

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"Can I not pray in the autumn?" "Song of Thanksgiving" "Have mercy upon this land" "Thank you" "We are all gathered here today" "Loving father God" Jesus Christ who came to this earth "As we look back over the past year" "We beg" "Could have been a cold war" "O'God, who created time" "Sound" "Church history: a reflection" "Gusts of cold winter wind" "No matter how" "Beloved dear shepherd" "It is February" "What is seen" "Parched land" "The final month of winter" "Spring march" "Garden of Gethsemane" "The Lamb of God" "On the hill of Golgotha" "The wages of sin is death" "On the day you eat of it" "Like the disciples" "New morning of the resurrection" "At twilight" "Reconciliation" "In the garden of spring" "Mother's Day" "Help me to love" "Sweet sound that awakens the dawn" "Although the falling is regrettable" "On the way home" "Shepherd of love" "Summer day's early morning" "How can I repay the Lord for all his goodness to me?" "Church-wide summer Bible retreat" "To the flock" "He is good" "Summer mountain range" "By midsummer" "For His Grace" "How grateful" "A pitiful woman driven out" "Looking at only the stars in the sky" "When river water flows" "Blot out our wickedness" "While living in the desert" "Full moon" "Have pity on America" "Paying a visit with the coming fall" "Over the sea of forest" "Jesus" "Autumn tree" "The immigrants' holiday" "Give thanks" "What shall I give?" "Balancing accounts" "Requisites for the kingdom of God" "A day over which our beloved shepherd rejoices" "On this earth" "The birthday of the Savior" "The joy of the Savior's birth" "Before this year goes by" "New morning of the pasture" "Even if winter" "Orientation" "Theological open lecture" "To you, Lord" "To one who believes" "Early morning prayer period for 40 days" "He is the true farmer" "A season for seeing" "Winter has gone" "Three crossses" "Commemorating the cross" "Life that lives again" "Easter's new morning" "The twilight road" "Because of the joy of seeing".

Rev. Manwoo A. Kim started writing poetry during his college days at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. Reading this volume containing Rev. Kim's poems (translated from Korean by Onyoo Elizabeth Kim, Esq.), the reader will benefit from his many years of viewing the world through poetic lenses. Rev. Kim's poems reflecting on the grace of God inspire the reader to higher things, and his poems focusing on the suffering of Jesus Christ for His people will move the readers to tears. Furthermore, his poetic reflections are a window into the particular experience of Korean evangelical Christians living in the USA. Majority of the Koreans living in the USA are evangelical Christians, so this book will help the reader to understand her Korean neighbors better.

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Rev. Manwoo A. Kim has been the senior pastor of the First Korean Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia since 1979. His whole life, Rev. Kim has worked closely with Student For Christ (SFC), an evangelical Christian student organization founded in South Korea. Locally, he works actively with African-American Christian ministers.