Our story.

Having witnessed firsthand the racism, prejudice and other barriers that hold people back from fulfilling their calling and their potential, we felt that too little was changing, and too slowly. Simply raising awareness wasn’t driving the change we desperately needed.

 

We wanted to do something tangible to help those affected. So we decided to start a scholarship. If we couldn’t fix the world, maybe we could make it a little better for one student at a time.

But then something amazing happened. We told one person. Then two people. Then three. And they all told us that they’ve been thinking about the same thing. That they’d like to contribute. That maybe we weren’t being ambitious enough.

So we started to think bigger.

We thought that maybe others would want to give—that they, like us, just didn’t know where to start. We thought that maybe we could help more than just one student. Maybe we could draw attention to the inequalities that our brothers and sisters of colour face every day, and find ways to start to chip away at those hurdles.

We looked at starting our own charity or foundation so that we could have a platform to effect real change. But some wise counsel helped us realize that it was not an effective use of resources. Not yet, anyway.

So here we are. Today, we are just two people with a website and a passion for helping our disadvantaged brothers and sisters pursue their calling. But who knows what tomorrow will bring.

Who is Margaret Jung?

Margaret Jung was born in Korea in 1923. Like so many who now call Canada home, Margaret and her husband left everything they knew and moved across the globe. They landed in Brazil in 1963 then found their way to Canada in 1965.

In 1975 her husband, Mark, was ordained and pursued full time church ministry. Margaret was her husbands biggest cheerleader. She ministered along side him and encouraged young people to pursue their calling with that firm gentleness that only grandmothers could provide. She loved everyone she met and made them family.

Margaret, who we knew as halmoni (grandma), passed in 2021. When we had the idea to start this scholarship, we decided to name it for her—to honour her, to continue her work encouraging people to pursue their calling and help carry on her trailblazing legacy.

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