austraLasia #1674
Korean missionary fires up Friends of the
Sudan Mission in Seoul
SEOUL: 29th Ocotber 2006 -- Korea's first Salesian to be a missionary in the
Sudan, Fr John Lee Tae Seok (cf austraLasia #1015) has returned home for a
short break, and is intent on developing the support already garnered from his online café friends (www.daurn.net). Today, 29th October -
and the feast of Bl. Michael Rua, incidentally - the Friends of the Sudan
Mission are holding a concert in Seoul to raise money to help children who are
part of the Tonj mission where Fr Lee works.
Fr Lee, a native of Busan, South Korea, graduated from In
Jae University Medical Faculty before departing for Sudan in 2001. As a
Salesian and a doctor he brings a distinctive form of pastoral health care to
an area now recovering from years of conflict and where children are still at
risk from unexploded munitions, general health problems, and some are sufferers
of Hansen's Disease. The concert organised by his friends and well-wishers is
being held at the Korean Medical Federation building's Dong Ah Hall.
Books, a DVD, T Shirts are also on sale. Fr Lee's experiences have been written
up in a 150 page illustrated work by a Korean writer, published in Seoul in
2005. It is titled 'African Sunshine is Still Sad' and is now in its 3rd
edition. All proceeds from the event are earmarked for the development of the
Salesian school in Tomj.
The work in Tonj and elsewhere in the Sudan is the subject
of this year's mission animation notes and dvd put out by the Mission
Department in Rome. Another pointer to Salesian work in the Sudan and support
from Don Bosco Network NGO activities based in Europe is available from the
www.sdb.org home page current FOCUS section. With the strong emphasis
this year on Salesian work in Sudan, no surprise that 9 new missionaries have
been assigned there this year. Fr Henry Woo from Korea has responded to the
appeal for more Koreans to consider a missionary experience, and received his
mission cross on 1st October this year. He will be assigned to Sudan
Fr Lee returns to Tonj on 3rd November.
GLOSSARY
Garner: meaning 'to collect'; same root as the word we get
'granary' from, for storage of grain.
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