Deacon Jonghoon Choi
(Sub-district Leader of 12-1st Parish)

Deacon Jonghoon Choi and his family look happy with his youngest daughter Hana.

We have three lovely daughters. They are Ha-eun, 8, Hayoung, 6, and Hana who was born recently. They are all growing up well amidst God's grace. Among them, the youngest Hana was born by the special love and grace of God.
In latter December of 2007, I unfortunately had some financial deals with one of the church members. My wife and I greatly suffered from the pressure of the moneylender paying the interest which was millions of won (thousands of dollars in US currency) a month. Because of this difficulty caused by myself, my wife Deaconess Hyungjung Lee had a very hard time, and we often had quarrels with each other. Meanwhile, she got pregnant in May, 2009 and she had a discharge of blood from the beginning of her pregnancy. Thinking she might have a miscarriage, I took her to the hospital and fortunately nothing was wrong. On September 18, when we were offering Friday All-night Service, my wife said something like thick water was wetting her legs.
"Oh my God, what is this?"
"Darling, I am discharging blood, my skirt's getting all wet!"
It kept coming out until the seat cover was wet. At that time I thought it was blood because she was wearing a reddish skirt. So I didn't think it as very serious for it had sometimes happened previously. She was 19 weeks pregnant at that time. A few days later, I found my wife's belly had become thin. "Wife! I think there's something wrong with your belly. It became so thin! We'd better go see an obstetrician and check."
On September 28, 2009, she had an ultra-sonogram at a neighborhood hospital and found out she had little amniotic fluid. Amniotic fluid is the thick liquid contained by the amniotic sac of a pregnant woman, and it helps the growth of the fetus and it comes out when the baby is born helping an easy delivery. The doctor recommended that we move to a bigger hospital saying that she was in a critical condition. On September 30, she was diagnosed with oligohydramnios and was hospitalized.
I wondered why she was in that kind of situation. I thought one of the reasons was a discord between me and my wife. But most of all, I committed a grave sin that I made a financial deal and became a guarantor for debts disobeying the word of God (Proverbs 22:26). I thoroughly repented with tears at the moment I realized this. I was so sorry for my wife and children who were suffering because of me. I went to Senior Pastor and repented. Then, Senior Pastor comforted us giving us words of warm love and advice. I determined to become not only a faithful worker of God but a good husband and father to my wife and children. My wife understood my heart with pleasure and also decided to depend only on God from that time on.
"Let us commit everything to God. God will work for us if we receive the Senior Pastor's prayer with faith."
"Of course, He will! We will receive His answers!"
We showed our faith before God. We weren't worried anymore thinking 'What if something happens to our baby?'
On Sunday of October 4, I went to Senior Pastor and received his prayer. My heart was at peace. "There was another member who gave birth to a baby without amniotic fluid not long after the church was founded," said the Senior Pastor as soon as he finished his prayer. I answered with faith saying, "Amen." My wife who was at the hospital at that time also accepted it with faith as she heard about this, and she became peaceful as well. Normally, drinking water and injection of dextrose cause the amnion to have more amniotic fluid. But strangely after receiving Senior Pastor's prayer, more water flowed out from the damaged amnion. It came out too much to the point she had to change her sanitary pads couple of times a day and even her underwear got soaked. But we kept praying all the more diligently with a faith that God would let us give birth to a healthy baby by Senior Pastor's prayer which is guaranteed by God.
From a medical viewpoint, if amnion is damaged and infected with germs, a pregnant woman might be in a critical state or she might have a miscarriage. And without amniotic fluid in the amnion, it's hard for a fetus to grow and stay in a proper temperature and there is a high chance of the pregnant woman giving birth to a deformed baby.
She spent over four more months in this condition that she almost had no amniotic fluid. No one can deny the powerful works of God which have been manifested by Senior Pastor's prayer. We later realized the reason that Senior Pastor told me about a member who delivered a baby without amniotic fluid was to give us faith and assurance. We always made a profession of faith that we would glorify God by safe delivery because Senior Pastor gave us a prayer of blessing.0
On January 3, 2010, when it was month before the due date, we received Senior Pastor's prayer for the delivery. "God Father, Please let the baby be born healthy and at a normal weight. God worked so quickly. Three days after we received his prayer, we gave birth to a healthy baby before the due date. This was when she had been pregnant for nine months (35 weeks). At the moment we took an ultra sonogram of the baby, she weighted only 2.02 kg. But in just three days, the weight increased by 600g and she was born at 2.6 kg by the prayer. Right before she was born, the doctor said the baby would probably have to enter the intensive care unit or be placed in the incubator. But how would the doctor possibly imagine that the amazing work of God would happen!