meet your core -- my hopes for this year's KCM

Stephen Kim

Yo whatup this be the one and only Stephen Kim! Actually not really haha, there’s a lot of Stephen Kim’s so I had to make a nickname for myself when I came to college: ‘Stevo’. Well, that being said, let me tell you more about this mysterious Stevo Kim.

Right now, I am a third-year at the best school ever, UCLA! I used to be a BizEcon major with Accounting, but today I am a Communications major. Yes, it’s true…90% of my classmates are girls, but that’s not why I changed majors. I actually have no clue why I changed majors. What do I like to do in my spare time? My favorite things to do are fellowship, fellaship, and feelaship. You can guess for yourself what they each mean. I also enjoy basketball, fishing, snowboarding, and trying to be holy like Cho Yim.

I was saved July of 2006, after high school—and let me tell you, I’ve had the best times since! Today I am able to say, “I’m not scared of death at all, but I am scared of dying”. I have no fear of death because Christ my Savior took the place of all my sins and I know I will be glorifying Him forever in heaven. But heck! I’m a chicken. I’m scared how I’m going to die, whether it’s from a parachute malfunction or a freak swordfish accident while I’m fishing.

I love UCLA. I love KCM. I love my church. I love my friends. But I love them because Christ first loved me and He is the source of my joy. That being said, let’s rejoice and share in our Joy. My vision for this year is: FELLOWSHIP. To be honest I don’t fully understand what that word means. My prayers are that God will show us a fellowship like we’ve never seen experienced before. I want KCM to be the saltiest of salts, the brightest of lights, and the city upon the highest hill. I want skeptics and seekers to feel the warmth of Christ through our fellowship. And to believers I want us to provide accountability, encouragement, and the LOVE of CHRIST. C’mon. Where else can you get a group of students that will rejoice in spending the next billion years together praising our Great God? This year, let’s plant fellowship, water it, cultivate it, raise it, and eat it as a delicious fruit from God.

I thank God so much for our servant team. I’m blessed to be a part of this group, and I’m blessed that God even gave us a heart to serve His kingdom. I’m a sheep, you are a sheep. A sheep is a sheep-- whether a pastor or churchgoer, Korean or Mexican, a veteran believer or a new convert. At the end of day, all we have is Christ, and without our Great Shepherd we are all lost. Each one of us are that hundredth sheep, so let’s all rejoice that that we were found by The Shepherd.

Remember, prayers are like gasoline-- without it we can’t drive forward. So let’s prepare our hearts for this year and get pumped up! Let’s get this show on the road!