Tej Francis
(Catholic News Service) Retired Army Col. Cameron Song Sellers served his country, and now, he’s serving God.
Following the Korean War, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world, Flynn reported. As a result, many mothers abandoned their babies, including Cameron’s own mother. He was put up for overseas adoption.
While Sellers was originally flagged for adoption in Europe, an American couple felt called to adopt him.
“I don’t think they can really explain it in words other than just by emotion in the heart that I was the one,” he said. “And I was going to be a part of the Sellers family.”
The Sellers family was a Baptist family living in Phoenix, Arizona.
However, he was introduced to Catholicism and the Mass when he became friends with a Catholic in high school.
God had a plan, he added. “I think He wanted me there because He wanted me to know that I was in a family and that I didn’t need to worry about my background and who I was – that my family was the Catholic Church, the universal Church,” Cameron said.
After graduating college, Cameron joined the Army and served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He worked his way up to the rank of colonel. Later on, he led an Army Reserve engagement team, where he helped reserves acclimate to South Korea.
During his time in the military, Cameron relied on Catholic chaplains when things got tough.
“The music, the sermon, just brought tears to my eyes because it brought so much comfort,” he stressed. “In those moments like that, you just know how important they are.”
Today, Sellers resides in California and is studying for the priesthood with the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
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