Some Links

Some readers may be interested in these links.

Here is the Dandelion Community's blog.  It is in Korean and I am not sure how well Google translates it:

http://dandelion.or.kr/wordpress/

And the school where I will be teaching:

http://dandelionschool.net/default/

Although I will be serving with the Dandelion Community, which is established and run by locals in South Korea, I received this opportunity through Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and am still under their umbrella.  Here is a link to MCC's homepage:

https://mcccanada.ca/

And the specific program I am a part of, called SALT, which stands for Serving and Learning Together:

https://mcc.org/get-involved/serve/volunteer/salt

I have my own page on MCC's website, where I describe what I will be doing in more detail.  This page also tracks the funds I raised to support my volunteer term.  Thank you to everyone who supported me!  As you can see, you went well above and beyond what was required.

https://donate.mcccanada.ca/registry/robert-thiesen-dandelion-community-south-korea


While I was considering the possibility of spending a year at the Dandelion Community, I came across a blog written by someone who had done this before.  Rebekah Puddington's account of her year with the Dandelion Community is both profound and, in my opinion, high art.

What a privilege to have been able to get such an articulate view into life in the Dandelion Community before deciding to go there.  I will try my best to imitate her in this blog:

https://rkinrok.wordpress.com/

And here is a link to the website, Thinking Through Christianity, that I contribute to on a monthly basis.  It has some excellent pieces on theological and cultural topics.

/http://thinkingthroughchristianity.com/