Last Monday at 6:30 p.m., I visited a Nepali church called God’s Vision Nepali Church in Croydon, south of London. The church was planted about two months ago. Before that, they had been meeting once a month at the home of Pastor Govinda to prepare for the church launch. One rainy Sunday evening, I was invited to his home for worship. He asked me to lead communion so I led communion and prayed for each person with the laying on of hands. As always, God’s presence was evident.

Later, Pastor Govinda shared his testimony about that day. When he came to the UK, he had been sent from Nepal as a missionary and had been praying for three years about planting a church. When he was first commissioned, he received a message saying, “When you go to the UK, you will meet a spiritual father who is not Nepali.” Since then, he had been searching for that person. Whenever someone told him about a grace-filled church, he would visit and meet the pastor, but each time he felt that that person was not the one God had promised. Then, at the very moment he received prayer from me, he said God gave him a clear conviction: “This is the man of God you have been looking for.” It wasn’t just his own impression—he said that his congregation felt the same.

Since then, members of his church have been visiting God’s Vision Church Wimbledon regularly to worship together. Two months ago, they officially launched their new church. He said that because he had finally met the spiritual father God had promised, it was now the appointed time. He earnestly asked me to come and lead their service once, so this week I went to lead worship for the first time. My wife, Pastor Hyungmin Kim, Evangelist Woo-il Park, and Brother Chan Lee from Sarang Church (in Korea, currently here on a short-term mission) accompanied me.

Although the congregation was small, the worship began with passionate praise and prayer. I preached from Acts 9:1–7 about the importance of the church, drawing on several related scriptures. My English was imperfect, but I shared the key message with them and then led communion. As I prayed for each person, heartfelt prayers poured out, and some members were moved to tears.

After the service, Pastor Govinda expressed deep gratitude and said that he wanted to hold a special service to officially declare his church as a daughter church of God’s Vision Church. When I heard that, part of me wondered, “Is that really necessary?”—yet I also felt deeply moved. I was thankful and humbled that God would lift up and use someone as unworthy as me and our church in such a way.

I have long confessed, prayed, and proclaimed my desire to serve the many multiethnic churches in London. I even visited various organizations to explore forming a mission network to support them. But God seems to desire not impressive structures, but genuine spiritual unity. I thought it would be wonderful if, on the day they officially proclaim themselves as our daughter church, our members could join in the celebration—bringing delicious food, preparing a song of blessing, praying, and sharing fellowship together.

I hope our church will become a community that crosses not only language barriers but also cultural ones—embracing many nations as one family in Christ.