Tea June Heo
Saturday, February 4, 2006
While I was in Amsterdam, I received an email from a friend that one of my language-school classmates had died last week in Burkina Faso, where he was just starting his missionary career. Tea-June Heo, a missionary from a Korean agency, and his wife left for Burkina in July, accompanied by their 3 year old daughter, June Young. He was killed in a car accident in the capital city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Just receiving the news was a shock for me. In Amsterdam, I didn’t have a way to find out more details or even to contact other friends who knew him. I cried, and prayed, and cried some more.
Tea-June is with his Savior, and that is where he would want to be. He was a man with a heart for God, earnestly and intensely seeking the Lord. However, my heart breaks for Youn Suk, his young wife, who is two months pregnant and for little June Young; this must be so confusing for her.
I wish that Tea-June had been given a lifetime of missions service in Africa; he really had a heart for the African people. I look at the pictures of my language-school class (less than one year ago!), and it’s strange to think that one of us is already with the Lord. What encourages me is that I know that Tea-June would have been the first to declare that he would serve the Lord whether by his life or by his death. Even though his ministry is over, I know his testimony remains, and I hope that people come to the Lord because of it.
While I was in Amsterdam, I received an email from a friend that one of my language-school classmates had died last week in Burkina Faso, where he was just starting his missionary career. Tea-June Heo, a missionary from a Korean agency, and his wife left for Burkina in July, accompanied by their 3 year old daughter, June Young. He was killed in a car accident in the capital city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Just receiving the news was a shock for me. In Amsterdam, I didn’t have a way to find out more details or even to contact other friends who knew him. I cried, and prayed, and cried some more.
Tea-June is with his Savior, and that is where he would want to be. He was a man with a heart for God, earnestly and intensely seeking the Lord. However, my heart breaks for Youn Suk, his young wife, who is two months pregnant and for little June Young; this must be so confusing for her.
I wish that Tea-June had been given a lifetime of missions service in Africa; he really had a heart for the African people. I look at the pictures of my language-school class (less than one year ago!), and it’s strange to think that one of us is already with the Lord. What encourages me is that I know that Tea-June would have been the first to declare that he would serve the Lord whether by his life or by his death. Even though his ministry is over, I know his testimony remains, and I hope that people come to the Lord because of it.