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In 1998 Mina visited the Czech Republic and Hungary with the
Columbia's Alternative Context program. "The trip to Eastern
Europe awakened my responsibility of stewardship and of sharing
those overflowing resources with brothers and sisters in the world,"
she writes. "Living in the United States of America, which
is filled with abundant resources, I, like most Americans, often
failed to count blessing from God and appreciate them. Instead,
we often long for more when we should give up what we already
have because we have too much and too many."
When she began studying at Columbia, the shock at the sudden
death of a young Korean, a fellow student of theology, led Mina
to dedicate herself more fully to all that she was doing, especially
her Sunday school teaching job at a local Korean immigrant church,
and she began working at Our House, a child care center for homeless
children.
Before studing theology, Mina spent several years in southern
California working as a sales and marketing coordinator for Samtron
Displays, Inc., as a program representative for EDD Disability
Insurance, and as a regional sales representative for Century
International Enterprises. On her return to Georgia, she was an
administrative manager for Commercial Chemical Products before
becoming a teacher at the First Korean School in Lawrenceville,
Georgia. Immediately before her appointment as a mission worker
with the PC(USA), she was a Christian educator at Hanbit Presbyterian
Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mina was born in Seoul, Korea. She holds a BA in sociology from
Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and an M.Div. from Columbia
Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.
She is a member of Hanbit Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
Birthday: September 14
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