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Elli & Acksios Kim

So that many would know God and make Him known.

Hello, we are the Kims

We have been missionaries with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) in Perth, Australia since 2008/9. Acksios started his missionary journey in Korea, and Elli started out here in Perth, where we met in 2009. Our mission is to see this world hear about Jesus, through one person – and their calling – at a time. We are passionate about mentoring, training, and walking with young people, to help them step into their purpose within God's plan.

Currently we are serving in the area of Media & Communications and IT. Together with our co-leader Jess, we lead the team that covers YWAM Perth's social media, video productions, printed promotions, and the IT infrastructure for all the schools and ministries operating out of our campus.

Instagram: Have a look at what's been happening!

Throwback to August, when we had the joy to teach in our Discipleship Training School.

Our topic was “Relationships” – how to relate to others based to biblical principles. This is a topic that continues to break our hearts. As Christians, we have all the tools to get along, but so often still don’t know how to do it well! It’s such a joy to be with the students, and our hope is to set them up for success in their relationships and friendships wherever God will call them next.

Liana joined us in the classroom for a morning, when she wasn't quite well enough to go to school. 🥰

Days and layers of celebration as we are letting it sink in that OUR PERMANENT RESIDENCY FOR AUSTRALIA WAS GRANTED!! (Had to write that capitals 😄). 🥳😱😭

We're still a bit in shock! And the best part? All the people who celebrated with us from all over the world! We are excited, but seeing so many people sharing that excitement and relief with us is the best. 🤗🥰

Sometimes it's the little things... like holding the stickers you've created in your hand! 😄💕🤗 So exciting to see things come to life that will be used to calling and mobilising more people into missions!

@ywamperth

The perks of working together... We can start out planning for a workshop and end with a lunch date. 🥰🤗 Grateful for the little moments.

When I think of this last week, I think of the legends of people that I get to call friends. We celebrated the graduation and the stories from outreach from our January quarter schools, and commissioned our April schools to go on outreach.

So many stories of transformed lives; people touched, served, healed, and introduced to Jesus. What a privilege that we get to do this.

My personal favourite is the story of a man who came up to the team from our counselling school in Uganda. He had seen them talk to people in his street all day, but they hadn't talked to him. So he came up and asked if they would share with him as well. Our team shared about Jesus and it turned out that this man used to be a Christian but had given up his faith many years ago. He decided to start following Jesus again, even shared his testimony in church the next Sunday and the team got to pray with him and his wife for a safe delivery in a dangerous pregnancy. They later heard from a local contact that the wife had had a smooth birth and a healthy baby. ♥️

- Elli

Moving to a new country on your own can be challenging. But starting a family in a new country can be really hard! A few years ago, two of the mums here at our missions campus started a little group where young mothers could meet every other week ☕🍪🍫🍿, share how they're doing, and support each other.

When she invited me (Elli 😉), I really thought that I didn't need this, that I was doing just fine. Boy was I wrong! This group of women, ever changing with our changing staff, has been such a source of strength, joy and support over these years. Even though both of these ladies are now working in other areas, the group still keeps meeting.

So grateful, @sally_a_moylan and @lauramagele, thank you!

When you're trying to capture a word shared after worship but don't have a tripod... 😄

📷 thanks to Ari Sloots' presence of mind

We had a lovely week speaking on our 4WD Discipleship Training School on the topic of relationships. What a great crew!

And on Sunday, they're heading off for off-grid camping and lectures for three weeks!

Cheers to 40! Happy Birthday, @acksioskim ! So grateful for your friendship, and for the father that your are to our girls. I see your humility, servant hardness, patience, but also you're strength and determined commitment to doing what is right on a daily basis. I keep telling our girls to find a man like you and they will be ok. Love you. 💕

Our January 24 schools have started! It's a buzz around our campus, getting them oriented and then classes starting tomorrow.

This January, we are running 5 training programs:

- 4WD Discipleship Training School
- Birth Attendant School
- Primary Health Care School
- Foundations for Counselling Ministry
and
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages!

Each of these schools offer such quality training in all these different areas. We're excited to see the students equipped and then take what they are learning to be a blessing all around the world!

Throughout October and November, we had the privilege of working with this fun group of young, and also seasoned missionaries. We listened together to a podcast series by @hellotheremombo and @juangalloway and then put the teaching into practice over the 7 weeks of the workshop.

It was all about developing the skills to be able to stay in missions long-term: Communication skills, telling the story of what God is doing, sharing their vision effectively, and building lasting friendships that keep their mission going strong for a long time.

We're so inspired by the commitment, humility, and faith of this group.

(Please excuse the shaky video with a daughter on my lap. 😅)

What a crew! Together, we smashed out another 70 flatbreads this morning, ready to go in the freezer for a retreat of our whole missions centre here. 🫓

A lot of my (Elli's) days lately have been filled with planning and preparing food for this retreat alongside some amazing people.

As a missions centre, we will be taking time away for input, hearing from God together, prayer, and lots of fun and community in between all of that. I'm super excited to see what God will do!

Thank you @ieshiahoffmann for capturing this! 🤗

One of the joys for us in ministry is to co-lead with Jess, whose girls are good friends of ours. School holiday meetings become play dates - win win!

(I promise, they were not just reading the whole time! 😅)

Can you spot him? @acksioskim in action again. 😉 Today, we were both helping to capture the stories our students shared - those who are finishing up their Discipleship Training Schools this week, and those who are about to head out on outreach!

This is why we do what we do. Seeing lives touched and changed by the love of God. Both, the lives of our students, and the lives of those they get to share God's love with. 🤩🫶🏼

Daseul was a part of our ministry for over 4 years and is finishing up to head into where God is leading her next. As people were sharing memories with her or things they love about her this afternoon, it was just so evident how much she invested over these years and the legacy that she leaves behind. We will miss her dearly! 🫶🏼 But excited to see where God will be leading her next ... with her soon-to-be husband! 🥳

In ministry, strategy and planning are important to see fruit and be able to measure the effectiveness of what we are doing. This is one topic that Acksios is quite passionate about and earlier this week, he had the opportunity to share some of what he learned with our graduate diploma student and staff.

This afternoon, our friend Daseul brought her church's kids club for a visit to our YWAM base. Such a great group of kids! (and adults also 😄).

Ryan did a great job in his message, to explain how Jesus didn't choose the most obvious people for His ministry, but those who wouldn't have been chosen by others. And how through those exact people God changed history.

When we prayed for the afternoon beforehand with those who were helping to host it, we had a strong sense that this could be a really crucial moment in the kids' walk with God.

Please pray that the seeds that were planted would grow and bear fruit.

Getting our new students registered and helping them get their media things done was a family affair today. Julina helped them to pick their t-shirt sizes, Liana was the photo model to get the camera set up right, and Amelie's job was to say hi to people. 😄 I'm savouring these moments, as long as they last.

@acksioskim was able to help capture this interview of one our long-term staff members and friend, who is about to move to Lebanon.

Capturing people's stories is one way how we get to inspire others to know God more. It's a lot of fun, but we also see the lasting impact it can have.

Please pray for this amazing lady as she is wrapping up her current life here and getting ready to relocate, so she can help to train more missionaries from the Middle East.

Report Back means we get to hear all the stories of what God did while our school teams were on outreach. Personally, this is one of my (Elli) favourite times of the quarter.

Yesterday afternoon, I was able to record a whole bunch of our returning students individually and hear their stories. Such a privilege to see the impact they have had, but also the change in these guys from when they first came.

Do you know the saying "If you point your finger in blame at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you"? Well, I can tell you that it's true. Here is what I do when I feel like I have a lot of "fingers" pointing at me. When I'm worried about getting judged by others for something that I'm doing, I go through this little exercise:

I simply think back, and ask God to show me, if there has been a similar situation where I have judged someone else. If something comes to mind, a situation where I looked down on someone, or made assumptions about their character based on this behaviour, I pray and sincerely ask God's forgiveness for pointing my finger at one of His children, and thinking of myself as better than them. God promises to forgive as we ask for it!

Both Elli and I have found so much freedom from the opinions of others, simply by acknowledging our own judgemental thoughts. But beyond that, it continues to help us to grow in compassion and love toward others.

I first learned about this principle when I read Matthew 7:1 "Do not judge or you too will be judged".

Give it a go next time you notice that you're worried about what others might think!

I am at Bunbury, Western Australia with a small team as a short outreach. The last couple of days we shared Word of the Lord in the church, lead prayer meeting and meeting pastors for possible working together in the future.

We also did a lot of evangelism in the city. We realized Bunbury city is not like other big cities. There are not many people who come to the city to hang out. It is also not a school holiday for any special holiday season. So, evangelism is pretty quiet. However, there are conversations which we can encourage people and pray for them.

God has been speaking to me personally that we are pioneering the way in Bunbury. We met a pastor who never contacted by YWAM last 13 years. He was a bit sceptical about YWAM in general, but we start talking about it and clear some misunderstandings. I think we will work in the future. We are sowing seeds.

Nevertheless, we are hosting a city event. We invited every person we met in the city as well as all the churches. We would love your prayer for Friday combine worship gathering at the beach with Humility and Hunger band. It is something never done before, so we don’t know what to aspect. Pray for salvation as well as church unity.
Thank you for being part of this outreach by praying for us.

A view of Koombana Bay on Port Leschenault, Australind, Western Australia, lithograph, hand coloured, 47.3 x 63.7
cm, by Thomas Colman Dibdin

This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has
expired.

This is Heather. God spoke to her many years ago about Aboriginal people in Australia. She is about to take off to start #ywambroome. Nothing, nothing can stop what God is doing!

Whenever I call Liana with a playful voice, she immediately knows that I am inviting her for a play. She runs to me no matter what she was doing. Today, when I called her, she just looked at me, gave me a smile and went back to reading the book. I realized she grow up enough to have something more interesting than me momentarily.

I wasn't sad. I was proud of her. There is something beautiful about it. Then I thought, would God enjoy to see me focusing something else than Him momentarily and talk all about it later?
Yes, I think so. I just need to go back after when I am done. This free me from the guilt of not always focusing on God. He is bigger than that.

#fatherheartofgod

IT, Information Technology. #ywamperth is sending out many outreach teams every quarter to #makeHimknown. IT enable us to call more short term missionaries and connect ministries around the world. It is our privilege to serve God with such powerful tool.

It is our privilege to serve these people in #ywamperth. We communicate what God is doing to call more missionaries like these people and it is growing and Gospel is preached!!

한글 번역 아래 있어요.
10 years ago, God spoke to join ywamperth Media ministry to mobilise more missionaries through video. I am grateful and privileged.
10전에 하나님께서 미디어를 통해 더 많은 일꾼을 부르라고 말쓰하시며 YWAM 퍼스 미디어팀으로 부르셨습니다. 하나님께서 하시는 일들을 볼수 있게 부르신 하나님께 감사합니다.
#ywamperth #mediainmissions #kimsinmiasions

Preparing for recording Friday Night Meeting "Then the LORD replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it"
Habakkuk 2:2

여호와께서 내게 대답하여 가라사대 너는 이 묵시를 기록하여 판에 명백히 새기되 달려 가면서도 읽을 수 있게하라
하박국 2:2

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