Pearl in the Cesspool
Where I Didn't Want to Be, God Met MeBy Jane Jun
Length6h 35m
About this audiobook
What if the place you never wanted to be was exactly where God was waiting for you?
Jane Jun thought God would spare her from the things she had already refused. He didn't.
Pearl in the Cesspool is the memoir of a Korean-American missionary led by God into places she wanted to avoid — Korea, Ethiopia during a civil war, and Israel through multiple wars. At the center is a vision from Iraq: Jesus diving into a pit latrine to pull out pearls buried in the waste — pearls that had forgotten what they were.
This is not a story of cheerful obedience. It is the story of a woman who argued, complained, and fought God at every turn — and a God who kept showing up anyway.
Every unwanted place became a place of healing. Every cesspool held a pearl.
For anyone God is leading somewhere they didn't choose — this book was written for you.
He is already in the place you didn't want to be. And He does His finest work there.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion, Biography and Memoir
Length6 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2Preface
3Part 1. When Everything Was Yes
4Chapter 1Everything Becomes New
5Overnight Transformation
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6The World Began to Look Strange
7A Different Daily Life
8From "Soju Jane" to "Holy Jane"
9The First Prayer I Ever Prayed to a Father
10Not Perfection, but Attachment
11Chapter 2The Road Opens
12The Call to Mission
13He Who Calls Also Prepares
14Finding a Major
15Five Small Miracles
16Chapter 3The Apartment That Smelled Like Flies
17What 'Surrender' Actually Means
18The Training Begins
19When I Prayed, It Began
20The Identity Test
21God's Answer: Don't Run
22Back to What Is Real
23Chapter 4The Outcast Country
24Iraq, the Unloved
25God Who Fills, God Who Pours Out
26God Who Sends
27The Envelope God Returned
28God Who Called Me to Iraq
29Mom: The Last Mountain
30Chapter 5The Pearl in the Cesspool
31Arriving With Grand Expectations
32The Vision That Named the Book
33Learning to See People
34Part 2. When I Started Saying No
35Chapter 6Anywhere But Korea
36The Prayer I Thought I Could Get Away With
37Why I Didn't Want to Go
38The Resume That Went Nowhere
39The Mountain I Had to Climb
40A Chaotic First Step
41What is this?
42A Problem That Was Actually a Gift
43Culture Shock
44Isolation and Confusion
45The Teenagers Nobody Noticed
46The Spray Bottle at Work
47God Used My Weakness
48Chapter 7The Gift I Refused
49A Spiritual Oasis in the Desert
50He Was Single, Actually
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