Eugene Kim
Ministry Team Profiles
Eugene Kim
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Area of Involvement: Missional Community Coordinator, Downtown Homeless Ministry, Amada Ministry, Tentmaker Group, and hopefully soon the Re:Novo Institute
Wisdom/bit of advise/quote: "The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom. We are not justified by the gospel and then sanctified by obedience, but the gospel is the way we grow ( Gal.3:1-3) and are renewed (Col.1:6). It is the solution to each problem, the key to each closed door, the power through every barrier." - Tim Keller from The Centrality of the Gospel
Spouse: My beautiful wife for life, Jenny, whom I have been blessed to be married to since 2000.
Children: My son Calvin Anderson (2002) who we named after John Calvin the (16th c.) French Protestant Reformer, and the (mid 80's - 90's) cartoon Calvin & Hobbes (Waterson). My daughter, Abigail Jeanne (2004) who we named after the bible character, and her middle name after Jeanne d'Albret the French Queen of Navarre, famous Calvinist, close friend and supporter of John Calvin. So far Calvin has proved to be a little protester (of veggies) and a lovable rascal, and Abby has proved to be a Princess and good friend to Cal.
Education: BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.Div at a once great seminary that sadly no longer exists.
Hope and Vision for Kaleo: That she would be a catalyst for a gospel centered movement that crosses denominational, socio-economic, and ethnic lines uniting the church on mission. That she would be a city of God, within the city of man (San Diego), one that is in the world, not of the world, yet inarguably for the world.
How you got involved with Kaleo: I had never heard of Acts29 but hungry to learn as much as I could about Church planting, I randomly attended the 2006 Act29 Church Bootcamp, where I mistook David Fairchild for my long lost Honky twin. (Still waiting on the DNA results on that) Regardless, I was sure I'd found a true brother. He kept mentioning all the right names (Frame, Clowney, Newbigin, Keller) 1/2 of which had been my teachers. After struggling in vain for years serving a church and denomination that had all the right doctrine yet almost refused to be missional, I started entertaining the idea that perhaps such a church (and church planting movement) existed beyond the 1st and 16th centuries. After countless meetings with the Elders and staff I became convinced, a few months after that initial meeting my family and I took the leap and found a home in Kaleo. In order to make that leap possible, that same month we put our home up for sale at the very worst time of the year (Christmas) in a flooded and depressed housing market. As a confirmation, it sold in just 3 weeks for over our asking price, a total miracle.
A few of my favorite things: Spending time with my wife and family, making my secret tortilla dip just for my wife, dancing with or reading to my kids (not at the same time), deep sea sport fishing, Inductive- theological-figurative Oil painting, eating meat, hosting people in our home (usually to eat meat), sharing a good dark beer with friends, sitting down with either a good book (too many to list) or THE Good Book (only one).
Et cetera, et cetera: Francis Schaeffer has a somewhat dated quote (that I find humorous) in which he alludes to one positive way you can know that authentic gospel community is happening in your midst is when even "ORIENTALS" come to your table. I guess Kaleo can now rest assured.
