King's Table: Setting the Gospel Table in Places of Suffering and Disability
King’s Table draws its inspiration from 2 Samuel 9, where David welcomes Mephibosheth, a man with disability, to dine at the king’s table. The ministry plan explains that this picture reveals God’s heart for those who are forgotten or wounded, and it sets a vision for people, especially people with disabilities in Korea and Asia, to experience dignity, purpose, and fellowship. From the beginning, the plan emphasizes a learning and serving community where people with and without disabilities are equipped to live as missionaries in everyday life.
Why is this ministry needed now?
The plan names a clear gap. Korea and much of Asia lack theological resources that address disability and suffering in a holistic way, and many communities still interpret disability through the lens of shame or punishment. At the same time, people with disabilities often face social isolation and limited employment opportunities, which restrict participation in community life. King’s Table responds by pursuing integration rather than isolation, so that people with disabilities can serve, work, and worship alongside their neighbors, reflecting the unity of Christ’s body in visible ways.
Three interdependent pillars that form one mission ecosystem
The ministry is carried out through four interdependent projects designed to reinforce each other and be replicated across regions. The sequence begins with the Institute, then moves to the Community Center and Mission projects.
1. King’s Institute
The plan describes the Institute as the “software” that powers all King’s Table ministries. It provides theological and educational programs on Christian worldview, the theology of suffering and disability, and practical mission, insisting that theology must move from knowledge into love and service.
Key components include:
Online theology content in Korean and English, delivered through lectures, articles, and videos for the wider Asian context.
Seminars and workshops, both online and offline, with preaching grounded on Scripture.
Curriculum development for churches, seminaries, and mission organizations.
Eight-to-twelve-week certification courses that train participants as missionaries through practices like letter writing, prayer groups, and mobilizing donations.
Disability ministry consulting, including accessibility assessments and leadership development for local churches.
The need is not only content but community. The plan calls for a mentoring based learning ecosystem that crosses borders through bilingual resources and accessible formats.
2. King’s Community
King’s Community begins as a Community Center, not a residential facility. It is presented as the “hardware” where theology becomes daily practice, offering an accessible space for fellowship, training, vocational workshops, product sales made by people with disabilities, worship, and pastoral care, while remaining open to the local community.
Major programs include:
Vocational training and social enterprise in crafts, digital skills, baking, and other trades, with products sold onsite and online to generate revenue and wages.
Multi-purpose community spaces for counseling, events, training, and product sales.
Pastoral care through prayer ministry, counseling, peer mentoring, and support groups, supported by volunteers from local churches.
Integration with neighbors through classes, concerts, volunteering, and intentional community events that bring diverse participants together.
An online platform and app that connects education modules, prayer networks, counseling, and cross-cultural collaboration across regions.
The plan frames this center as a practical response to isolation and limited employment, offering belonging through integrated community life rather than institutional separation.
3. King’s Mission:
King’s Mission coordinates evangelism, practical ministry, and international outreach. It aims to proclaim the gospel, provide tangible help, and develop leaders with and without disabilities.
Core initiatives include:
Medical and rehabilitation support through wheelchairs, walking aids, rehab kits, and local training in maintenance and distribution.
Annual shipment planning that includes a 46-foot container with around 250 wheelchairs plus rehabilitation equipment, partnering with Shalom Disability Ministries.
Missionary training and teams that form disciples through service, short term missions, letter writing, prayer meetings, and donation mobilization.
Rehabilitation center projects in mission fields that repair and produce wheelchairs, offer physical therapy, and operate as social enterprises to create local jobs and sustain ministry work.
The plan notes both the scale of disability related marginalization in the region and the lack of biblical understanding and medical training in many contexts, calling for structures that build trust by providing real help while sharing the gospel. The stated goal is to embody the gospel of grace in word and deed so that God’s power is displayed in weakness.
All about the gospel
King’s Table is explicit about its method. It trains people with and without disabilities as missionaries who serve their neighbors, share the gospel in word and deed, and contribute to society. In this framework, theology fuels practice, and lessons from real world service deepen future training, so that knowledge becomes love, love becomes service, and service transforms communities.
King’s Table is not a single program. It is a connected mission ecosystem: Institute forms disciples, Community Center embodies integrated life, and Mission extends practical grace across borders. As more churches, families, and neighbors join, the gospel becomes both spoken and seen, a table set with truth, dignity, and love.