Baptist Press
By Marilyn Stewart, posted October 23, 2024 in Discipleship, Education
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (BP) – Daniel Cho’s 20-minute bike ride from home four days a week ends at Harvard University where he serves as a bi-vocational Southern Baptist chaplain. In a place where the Bible is often seen as irrelevant, Cho meets one on one with students – including those from other faiths or no faith – to help them see Scripture in a new light.
“I try to teach the Bible in a way that is compelling, and teach in a way that shows it is relevant and applicable to life and that the Gospel is right, refreshing and life-giving,” Cho said.
The work is not quick but has brought lasting results. Scores of workers now serve on mission fields around the world, the “fruit” of more than three decades of ministry on the Harvard campus.
“It takes a 40-year trajectory to produce that kind of fruit,” Cho said as he pointed to the impact of one woman’s four decades of college ministry.
Rebekah Kim, senior Southern Baptist chaplain at Harvard and Cho’s ministry director, came to Boston 34 years ago with her husband, Paul Kim. The couple had planted a Southern Baptist church near the University of California at Berkeley where they served for 10 years. Cho came to Harvard as a freshman one year after Kim arrived and is counted among the students she has mentored. More Here