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Overseas Volunteering
The Mission of Good News Corps
Pastor Ock Soo Park established the Good News Corps in order to further his vision for young people. Through missions work and volunteer service, Pastor Park believes young volunteers will gain a heart to seek the grace of God. This formula cultivates the leaders of the next generation, individuals that possess broadened views of the world and a heart for self-sacrifice.
The Good News Corps accomplishes this objective by creating opportunities for individuals to go overseas and directly engage in major aspects of foreign culture: language, cuisine, music, architecture, sports, and traditional performance. Through this interaction, participants gain global perspectives and forge a genuine heart for volunteer service.
The Good News Corps also aims to advance intercultural collaboration and international exchange, as well as providing essential services towards living environments, education, and the spiritual condition of each participating nation.
The Program of Good News Corps
The goal of mission activities is to touch the lives of natives and to exchange their despair for hope through visitations and performances at hospitals, retirement homes, and residences, individual spiritual counseling, youth and community outreach programs, Sunday school teaching, and mission journeys to remote areas.
Volunteers help promote energy conservation, waste management, environmentally sound land use, and planting trees. These activities foster attitudes towards making the world a healthy place to live in, and the need for both social and environmental responsibility.
Language is a tool for the heart to communicate. The power to transfer a person’s mind and heart is wielded through language. Natives become “tutors,” and volunteers gain foreign language skills that cannot be achieved in the classroom. Some even master certain languages while interacting heart to heart and shoulder to shoulder with the people of the host country.
Good News Corps alumni have served in world-famous events as translators and interpreters. They successfully served in the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea & Japan by providing translation and interpretation for multiple languages. They were also selected to provide services for world leaders during the 2005 APEC Summit (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation). The training acquired through the Good News Corps program allows our translators to become true ambassadors, bridging the gap between not only languages, but between hearts.
Good News Corps volunteers also enrich their host countries by instructing their citizens in a number of different enrichment and continuing education courses such as computer literacy, other language studies, and music performance.
The Good News Corps also addresses the dilemma of youth delinquency. Volunteers are designated as positive role models for young people with foreseeable problematic futures. Through events such as IYF English Camps and student camps, volunteers act as group counselors and program managers.
Volunteers immediately immerse themselves in their host country’s culture and values, but at the same time act as an ambassador of their own culture. Volunteers are also educated about the cultures of the world and eventually display this knowledge through exciting, innovative cultural exhibitions.
For more information, please contact the Good News Corps:
Good News Corps
300 Nassau Road
Huntington, NY 11743
Tel: (888)634-8436
Fax: (631)935-1197
