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A paradise in the isolated wilderness; my home was bursting with exotic species of
birds and insects, graceful clouds filled the blue skies and beautiful stars of the Milky Way
scattered across the universe. Bounded by the majesty of Nature, I found peace within the
cypress trees and fell in love with the golden red sunset over the valley. I was born in South
Korea but when I was nine, my family moved to Kenya to a Christian international school in
the mountains of Great Rift Valley in Kenya where I found the beauty of nature.
While I was there, I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. The school required
a mandatory Bible class for the students to learn about Christian theology and how to be a
good steward of His Creation. The education guided me to have a Christian worldview and
taught me how to interact with others. Since of a young age, God has placed in my heart a
of humanity. I wanted to know why certain people lived that way, and why people behaved
differently because of their religion, culture, and tradition. This curiosity led me to study
world history, American history, Korean history, Modern European history, African cultures,
microeconomics, psychology, political science, and current world issues. I chose these
However, I never knew environmental science as a subject within social studies. I did
not learn environmental science except during AP Biology, in which I highly disliked. I was
not a science student, but when I came to Calvin, environmental science was one of the class
I needed to take to graduate. I had a difficult time understanding what the class was about. I
was barely getting by each day. I hoped that I would not teach this in a classroom.
concepts. However, this time, I had a different approach to this subject. Through the
environmental science and world geography classes at Calvin, my eyes were opened to see
the injustice of how many innocent lives were dying because of deforestation, desertification,
The injustice of the climate change caused me to use examples of extraction of natural
resources, and poverty in Africa caused by egocentric people from the America, Europe, and
Asia to gain as many natural resources. As I was planning for the lessons, I was dumbfounded
by the complexity of the environmental issue. I was faced with sleepless nights trying to
Development Conference. There I heard a speaker named Jason Fileta who shared about
Micah Challenge, which focuses on how to live justly in the face of adversity. He shared the
verse in Micah 6:8, He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord
require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. As he
shared, my dislike of environmental science began to transform. The true shift of my mind
came when he quoted, Climate Change is a human rights issue now. There, I was opened to
see how living justly also required me to love the nature, the very creation of God. In all this,
I must humbly walk with God to bring a small change in the world that is dying and
suffering.
My goal in life is to be more like Jesus Christ in everything I do and say. As His child,
I want to share the love of Jesus Christ with my students through how I act and speak. One
way in which I can act and speak the truth is by sharing with my students how climate change
is human rights issue and God is weeping as He sees His creation utterly eradicate before
Him. As a teacher, I am called to show my students that they are responsible for bringing
justice and love in the face of adversity and death. The students must realize that they can do