2nd Quarter: AOD Blog #14

Mediation is where someone facilitates interaction to help people in conflict hear each other.  In the past, Pastor Jun has dealt with many different types of broken families.  One that he has mentioned to me was the conflict between a man and his father.  The father was a very strong athiest who despised all Christians.  Unlike the father, the man was a very strong Christian, who payed for his father continually, hoping that he would change his mind sooner or later.  After years and years of prayer, still nothing happened.  Eventually, the father ended up in the hospital because of health issues due to his old age.  He had about 7 more days to live, and so the son contacted pastor Jun and asked him to come in and pray for his father.  Unfortunately, his father did end up dying, but instead of dying an athiest, he died as a Christian.  For the first 3-4 days, Pastor Jun visited daily, talking about God's Word and praying for the father.  Around the 5th-6th day, somehow, the father finally decided to accept Jesus as his Savior instead of rejecting him.  Finally, he died on the 7th day, but the son knew that his father had gone up to heaven because he has accepted Jesus, believing that God sent his one and only Son to die on the cross to save us from our sins, and asking for forgiveness for all the sins he had made.  The father finally understood his son and finally decided to listen to what he had to say about God after all these years.