As we see from this episode, the story of Billy Kim is a remarkable one. Today he is an influential Christian leader in South Korea. He has been instrumental in leading many thousands of people to Christ but his story begins as a child growing up in poverty under Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 40s, and then the traumas of the Korean War in the 1950s. An interesting feature of Billy’s journey to faith is that the original impetus came not from another follower of Jesus but from an American soldier, Sgt Carl Powers, who sponsored his education in a Christian school back in the US. The Lord can, and often does, use non-believers to achieve His greater purposes. As Karl Faase comments at one point in the episode, “this story has the fingerprints of God all over it.” In many ways, we can conclude that Billy was chosen by God for His purposes at this point in history.