Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
Ruth Im, a Korean Missionary, and her Filipino partner were sent to an area where there is no Christian presence - Talaingod Municipality, a remote mountain area in the southern part of Mindanao Island in the Philippines. When these two young missionaries arrived at the entrance of the community, armed guards stopped them. When the two young women persisted in their request to enter, the guards reported them to the municipality chief. Upon learning that they were Christian missionaries, the chief gave orders to let them in and allowed them to freely go about their work. Because the chief had once attended a mission school belonging to their denomination many years ago, he felt kindly toward them.