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• 1973 Billy Graham Crusade in KoreaHistory

  A large-scale united evangelistic campaign held at Yeouido Plaza in Seoul from May 30 to June 3, 1973, at which the American evangelist Billy Graham preached. More than 1.1 million people are reported to have gathered on the final day.

• Ruth Bell GrahamPeople

  Ruth Bell Graham (1920–2007) was an American Christian author and poet. The daughter of Presbyterian medical missionaries in China, she was the wife of evangelist Billy Graham and shared in his ministry for nearly 64 years.

• '80 World Evangelization CrusadeHistory

  The '80 World Evangelization Crusade was a large interdenominational evangelistic gathering held August 12–15, 1980, at May 16 Plaza on Yeouido in Seoul, South Korea. It is known for its final day, when many young people resolved to commit themselves as long-term or short-term missionaries.

• 1977 National Evangelization CrusadeHistory

  The 1977 National Evangelization Crusade was an interdenominational Protestant mass evangelistic rally held in the summer of 1977 at Yeouido Plaza in Seoul, South Korea. It is known as a large united gathering that Korean churches prepared and led on their own, without foreign speakers.

• Billy SundayPeople

  Billy Sunday (1862–1935) was an American revivalist and former professional baseball player. A Presbyterian minister, he is known for holding large-scale revival campaigns in major American cities in the early twentieth century and for his leading role in the temperance movement.

• Helen Thompson SundayPeople

  Helen Thompson Sunday (1868–1957) was an American evangelist. As the wife of the revivalist Billy Sunday, she organized his large-scale evangelistic campaigns, and after his death she became an evangelistic speaker in her own right.

• Bill BrightPeople

  Bill Bright (1921–2003) was an American evangelist who founded the student ministry Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) in 1951. He also wrote the evangelistic booklet The Four Spiritual Laws and produced the film Jesus.

• Jeremiah 1:5Bible Verses

  A verse from the call narrative of Jeremiah in which God declares that He knew Jeremiah before forming him in the womb, sanctified him before he came forth, and ordained him a prophet to the nations. It is a representative verse on vocation and divine foreknowledge and is also cited in discussions of predestination and bioethics.

• Jonah 2Bible

  Jonah 2 is the chapter containing the prayer Jonah offered to the LORD from the belly of the great fish. Jonah thanks God for delivering him from the depths of the sea and promises to pay what he has vowed; at the end of the chapter, the fish vomits Jonah out upon dry land.

• Jonah (Prophet)People

  Jonah was an Israelite prophet and the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Jonah. He is known for fleeing from God's command, spending three days in the belly of a great fish, and then going to Nineveh to call its people to repentance.

• Vonette BrightPeople

  Vonette Bright (1926–2015) was an American Christian minister and author. With her husband, Bill Bright, she founded Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) in 1951, and she led the campaign to set the U.S. National Day of Prayer permanently on the first Thursday of May.

• Jonah 3Bible

  Jonah 3 is the chapter in which Jonah, having received God's second call, proclaims Nineveh's destruction; the king and the people fast and repent, and God withholds the calamity.

• Explo '74History

  Explo '74 was a large-scale evangelism training rally held by Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) from August 13 to 18, 1974, at May 16 Plaza (now Yeouido Park) on Yeouido in Seoul. It is regarded as the high point of the National Evangelization Movement led by the Rev. Kim Joon-gon.

• Carob PodsBible

  Carob pods are the swine fodder, rendered "husks" in the King James Version, with which the younger son in the Parable of the Prodigal Son longed to fill his stomach after squandering his inheritance. The term refers to the pods of the carob tree, which grows along the Mediterranean coast.

• BehemothBible

  Behemoth is the enormous beast that God shows to Job in Job 40. Its name derives from the plural of the Hebrew word for "beast." It is commonly identified as the hippopotamus, although some interpreters regard it as a symbolic being or as a dinosaur.

• Isaiah 50Bible

  In Isaiah 50 the LORD answers the charge that he has abandoned his exiled people, after which the Servant of the LORD speaks in the first person of remaining obedient in the midst of suffering. Verses 4–9 are known as the "Third Servant Song."

• Jonah 1Bible

  Jonah 1 tells how Jonah, fleeing the LORD's command to go to Nineveh, boards a ship bound for Tarshish, is thrown into the sea during a storm, and is swallowed by a great fish.

• 1 Corinthians 6:15-18Bible Verses

  A passage in which Paul urges believers to flee fornication because the Christian's body is a member of Christ. Drawing on Genesis 2:24, he describes sexual intercourse as a "one flesh" union. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of Christian sexual ethics and of the Christian understanding of the body.

• Mark 10:2-12Bible Verses

  The passage in which the Pharisees ask Jesus whether divorce is lawful, and Jesus answers by appealing to the order of creation: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." It is among the texts most frequently cited in discussions of marriage, divorce, and remarriage, and interpreters differ over whether it allows any exceptions.