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Kang Yoon, the owner of Brussels Pharmacy is back behind
the counter serving his customers after two weeks of mis-
sionary service in Kazakhstan. (Photo by David Blaney)
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PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2001.
Pharmacist returns from mission work in Asia
By David Blaney
Citizen staff
For many people summer vacation
means a week or two at the cottage
or a trip to visit relatives. For Kang
Yoon, a Brussels native, it meant 16
days of missionary work in the cen-
tral Asian country of Kazakstan.
Yoon was one of approximately
140 people who took part in the six-
year-old program sponsored by the
Toronto and Hamilton Korean pres-
byteries of the Presbyterian Church.
After four months of closing his
business early for training in
Toronto, Yoon boarded a plane with
five other members of his team for
the 21 hour trip to Almaty the former
capital of Kazakestan. After a short
stay to reorganize, they left for
Aralsk, formerly a thriving fishing
port of 45,000, but now a depressed
town of 25,000 on the edge of one of
the greatest environmental disasters
of the 21st century.
Aralsk used to be on the edge of
the Aral Sea, the largest inland sea in
the world. However, during the
Soviet era much of the water flowing
into the sea was diverted to irrigate
Cotton. As a result the Aral Sea has
receeded as much as 100 kilometers
from its former shoreline, leaving
Aralsk sitting in the middle of what
Yoon described as "a desert area cov-
ered by salty sand."
The area is very depressed as the
fishery has collapsed, and Yoon said,
many people have resperatory prob-
lems because of the blowing sand.
The teatt travelled to Arlsk by
train but were unable to get return
tickets. "We had to hope God would
provide our tickets." said Yoon.
They arrived on Saturday and were
met by a Kazak couple, trained in a
local Bible college. From the train
station they went to a rented house
for evening prayers and to prepare
for their mission work the next day.
After a Sunday service, at which
Yoon spoke, the team went to the
local market about 30 minutes away.
There is no public transportation,
only taxis, and the ashphalt road is so
bad that everyone drives on the
shoulders throwing great clouds of
dust into the air.
From the market they conducted a
Joshua-Prayer-Walk around the city.
They spoke to several people about
their mission work and handed out
testaments. They also met a Korean
family who had lived in the area for
generations and longer spoke their
native language.
On Monday they intended to begin
their work of preaching the gospel to
individuals but instead found them-
selves involved in two days of
wrestling with local beauracracy. '
In order to stay in a Kazak city you
must register with the authorities
within three days. The team needed
to get reservations for the return train
trip and change money at the bank so
they decided to use the Monday
morning trip to register at the town
hall. Here they meet the Deputy
Mayor and an official called the
Akim. At this point things things
became difficult, Yoon said.
The officials appeared suspicious
and repeatedly asked why they had
come to Aralsk. They also wanted to
know how they had met the Kazak
couple. The interpretors tried to pro-
vide an explaination but the answers
did not appear to solve the problem.
The Kazak officials said they must
leave in 24 hours because their visas
did not specifiy where they were
allowed to travel. The missionary
team pointed out their visas were dif-
ferent and allowed travel anywhere
in the country and that regardless of
the visas they couldn't leave because
they had no return reservations.
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