God has met with me through my older son's reactive attachment disorder.
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 ~ Deacon Joon-sung Kim (South Ulsan Manmin Church; Chief, Department Pediatrics at Ulsan University Hospital)
My older son's reactive attachment disorder
In February 2003, I had my own medical practice in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province. My son Woo-jin, who had spoken so well before, stopped talking all of a sudden. I thought it was very odd and when I took him to the hospital to be evaluated, my family learned that Woo-jin was suffering from a type of autism called "reactive attachment disorder" (a mental disorder of infancy or early childhood, characterized by notably unusual and developmentally inappropriate social relatedness, usually associated with grossly pathological care).
As a pediatrician, I was well aware of the condition and was devastated. I felt like the joyous family which I had pursued to build was falling apart and I was ready to do anything if it would lead Woo-jin to a complete recovery.
Accepting the Lord
Early in March 2003, while praying earnestly for our son, my wife remembered God's power manifested through Dr. Jaerock Lee at Manmin Joong-ang Church in Seoul she had attended in 1998. She looked for a Manmin branch church and joined Gwangju Manmin Church and, willing to try anything on which I could lay my hands, I began my Christian life with my wife.
However, my wife had a duty at another church she had been attending so we attended only the Sunday Evening Services at Gwangju Manmin. Its pastor Hyung-ryul Park and members at Gwangju Manmin planted faith in our heart with stories of the works of God's healing through Dr. Jaerock Lee.
Woo-jin's condition improved as our faith grew
At the end of the month, my family made a trip to Manmin Joong-ang Church in Seoul to attend a special monthly prayer meeting for the sick and after hearing God's Word, my wife and I came to realize that the sickness of a child is mostly the result of the wrongdoings of his parents. We looked for Rev. Hyuk-hee Cho (1st Grand Parish Pastor) and received prayer from him with the handkerchief on which Dr. Jaerock Lee had prayed (Acts 19:11-12). Now, would you believe if I tell you that Woo-jin began to speak the very next day?
A week later, my wife and I received prayer from Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee and when we received prayer from him again in May, Woo-jin, who had never danced before, received an award for "Excellent Dancing" at the Sunday School. We were certain his condition was improving.
My wife and I nurtured our faith and received abundant grace from the Senior Pastor's sermon message series on cassette tapes, in books, and on the Internet, including "The Message of the Cross" and "The Lectures on Genesis."
Overflowing blessings in spirit and in flesh
 In June 2004, the Senior Pastor visited Gwangju Manmin Church for "The United Holiness Church of Korea General Assembly & One-Day Revival Meeting." I received prayer from him because I wanted to work at Asan Medical Center in Seoul at which there was an excellent clinical process system but there was no opening at the time.
Then in July, my family received an inexplicable grace of repentance. When a broadcasting company in Korea produced and aired a biased report on Manmin Joong-ang Church back in 1999, I had doubted the church for a while but I was now able to repent of that.
Miraculous things came to pass afterwards. When I came home after attending "The Group Leaders' Seminar" which the Senior Pastor had conducted at the end of August, I had had a message from Asan Medical Center, asking if I could start working at its research center at the beginning of 2005. We also received the blessing of pregnancy with our second child for whom we had been for so long. Furthermore, after completing my research at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, I received the Senior Pastor's prayer to be appointed as professor at a medical school and God answered right away. In March 2006, I was appointed as Clinical Assistant Professor at Ulsan Medical School.
Receiving prayer from the Senior Pastor from time to time, Woo-jin is now a bright second grader, as healthy as ever. Hallelujah!
Seeking to become a physician testifying to God's power
 ~ WCDN members registering testimonies of healing at "The New York Crusade 2006"
I attended "The World Christian Doctors Network (WCDN) Conference" – an annual event that affirms the works of God's power with medicine – in Cebu, the Philippines, in June 2006.
While preparing for materials to be presented at the Conference, I again became certain of the infallibility of the works of God's power manifested through Dr. Jaerock Lee and I was filled with joy and pride as I saw the heart of hundreds of physicians in attendance touched at the witnessing of the works of healing as manifested through the Senior Pastor. My faith was taken up to the next level after attending "The New York Crusade 2006 with Dr. Jaerock Lee" and witnessing firsthand the works of God's power unfolding my very own eyes.
Then in September 2006, God promoted me as Assistant Professor at Ulsan University Medical School and in March 2007, He promoted me again to Chief of Pediatrics Department at Ulsan University Hospital.
I give all thanks and glory to God and would also like to express my sincere gratitude to the Senior Pastor for his prayer.
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