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Korean adoptees raised by Anglo-American parents face tri-cultural identity issues: Korean, American, and adoptee. Many feel lonely and isolated as they struggle with discrimination, racism and low self-esteem. Many deal with depression and some even commit suicide.

The Korean Adoptees Ministry (KAM) Center exists to hear the voices of Korean adoptees and their families, and to share the good news of healing, renewal, and wholeness in Jesus Christ with adoptees and their families. As St. John said, "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God and God lives in him" (1 John 4:16). Therefore, we can declare that Blood is Thicker Than Water, but Love is Thicker Than Blood.

Based on this LOVE, KAM Center has built a PLACE TO BELONG as well as "WE ARE ONE FAMILY NETWORK."

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Why do we need the Korean Adoptees Ministry?

15,000 Korean adoptees live in Minnesota alone and 150,000 total in the United States. They are raised by Anglo-American parents who face adoption issues such as loss, grief, rejection, abandonment, guilt, shame, intimacy, control, and tri-cultural identity: Korean, American, and adoptee. Read more history of International Korean adoptions.

As Dr. Janet Gullickson, an adoptive mother said, "No matter how loving, how perfect, how caring, how diligent families are, adoption marks cannot be removed."

Many feel lonely, shamed of their Korean heritage, and isolated as they struggle with low self-esteem. Many deal with depression and some even commit suicide. Adopted youth suicide rate is five times higher than mainstream youth based on the research of the University of Minnesota in 2002.

Korean Adoptees in North America have a subculture with a language and identity of their own. And unlike other subcultures in the U.S. such as gen-xers or second-generation immigrant communities, Korean Adoptees are a highly under-researched and under-supported group.

Therefore, someone like the Korean Adoptees Ministry needs to listen to the voices of Korean adoptees, to share the Good News with them so that they are able to find their tri-cultural identities in Christ: American, Korean, and Adoptee,  to renew their spiritual life, and to transform their community by living abundant and joyful life.