Deaconess Yoonyoung Choi (Yamagata Manmin Church, Japan)

At front, Elder Jekyu Joo, Deaconess Yunyoung Choi Back row, Brother Siyoung Joo, Sister Kayoung Joo, Brother Daeyoung Joo


In 1990, Elder Jekyu Joo and I were married. He was working for Sendai Consulate General. I was not able to conceive even after five years of marriage. I was born in the seventh month of pregnancy and was born congenitally weak. I had also had heart surgery.

In May, 1995, I visited South Korea to attend the 3rd two-week Consecutive Special Revival Meeting in Manmin Central Church in compliance with the advice of my mother who had been healed of rheumatoid arthritis by Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee's prayer. I received his prayer and was healed of otitis media with cholesteatoma which is difficult to heal. Also, I received the blessing of conception and have given birth to three children.

When I was carrying my third child, Sister Kayoung, in my womb at the sixth month in January 2000, the ultrasound test revealed the child was a son. At the moment, it flashed through my mind that my mother would be concerned about me. She had always been worried about me since I had to raise children in a foreign country with a weak body. Now, I was having the third child and it was a son who is usually more difficult to raise.

So, I kept praying from the day when I found out that it was a son. It is God who gave me a son and who created men, so I was given faith that God would change a son into a daughter if I was to receive Dr. Lee's prayer. I went to Seoul, Korea and received Dr. Lee's prayer of power. My heart became at peace and I returned to Japan with joy. That following February, the ultrasound showed that it was a female, not a male! Hallelujah! I delivered a healthy and beautiful daughter in May, 2000.

Sister Kayoung is now in the 8th grade, and she is the President of her class and receives trust and praise from her teachers. She also gives glory to God with dance in the Angel Glory Worship Team in church. I give all thanks and glory to God who gave me my three precious children and changed a son into a daughter.