Elizabeth Ko

Member Bio

After just a couple of classes more, I will be an official graduate of University of California, San Diego this winter. I am a human biology major with minors in Spanish literature and psychology.
I can’t think of a more direct way to help someone or a more intimate way to be with a complete stranger than to be in a position to physically use my hands to touch and fix people. Not just people but little people-- children. I love kids. And I really believe that the heart I have for children comes from God. I can confidently tell you that my heart was personally and painfully molded by His hands to specifically love His precious children. Resources and education are worthless if you don’t have your health to benefit from those things, so that’s why I think the most direct way to help them is through their health. As you know, it’s incredibly easy to love kids… no matter where they go, I feel that children are designed to receive love in every way, shape, and form. But I think along the way, God created in me a desire to love the children who are hard to love—the broken and the abandoned. More and more He shows me how His heart aches for His children, and I feel an urgency and hear His voice saying “Elly, go out and find and love my precious children.”
This is why i want to become a medical missionary as a physician.
It’s so comforting to know that my future is in God’s hands and that even if it means to surrender my dreams, my desires, my plans, and the things that I think I know, He will surely use me in ways that I can’t even fathom. What I lack, He will definitely fill. It’s so encouraging and so humbling to know that God uses the weak in amazing ways! A missionary once said to me ,“God uses ordinary man in extraordinary ways.” I’m quite ordinary, so this is very exciting news! I’m so encouraged to continue to strive for His glory. He takes all the glory when I stop taking it for myself.