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• Edward MotePeople

  Edward Mote (1797–1874) was an English Baptist minister and hymn writer, best known as the author of the hymn "My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less," which is also sung in Korean translation in Korean churches.

• Charles SpurgeonPeople

  Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) was an English Baptist minister. He pastored the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London for thirty-eight years and is known as the "Prince of Preachers." His collected sermons have been translated into many languages around the world.

• Susannah SpurgeonPeople

  Susannah Spurgeon (1832–1903) was a Christian author and the wife of the English Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. In 1875 she founded the Book Fund, which sent theological books to ministers of limited means.

• Oswald ChambersPeople

  Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) was a Scottish Baptist evangelist and Bible teacher closely associated with the Holiness movement. He is best known for *My Utmost for His Highest*, a 365-day devotional compiled by his wife from his lectures.

• Emma RevellPeople

  Emma Revell (1843–1903) was the wife of the American revivalist Dwight L. Moody. A Sunday school teacher, she is known for supporting her husband's ministry by handling its correspondence and finances.

• Robert Jermain ThomasPeople

  Robert Jermain Thomas was a Welsh missionary of the London Missionary Society. In 1866 he sailed up the Taedong River as an interpreter aboard the American merchant ship General Sherman and was killed at Pyongyang. Korean Protestants commonly regard him as their first martyr.

• Savoy DeclarationDoctrine & Theology

  The Savoy Declaration is a confession of faith adopted in 1658 by leaders of the Congregational (Independent) churches at the Savoy Palace in London, England. It is based on the Westminster Confession of Faith but revises its treatment of church government to accord with Congregationalism.

• David LivingstonePeople

  David Livingstone (1813–1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist medical missionary and explorer. Serving with the London Missionary Society, he explored the interior of Africa and is known as a leading opponent of the slave trade.

• Robert MorrisonPeople

  Robert Morrison (1782–1834) was the first Protestant missionary to China, sent by the London Missionary Society in 1807. He devoted himself to translating the Bible into Classical Chinese and to compiling a Chinese–English dictionary.

• World Evangelical AllianceInstitutions

  The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is an international body that brings together evangelical Protestant alliances from countries around the world. It traces its origins to the Evangelical Alliance founded in London in 1846.

• Aldersgate ExperienceHistory

  The Aldersgate experience was a religious experience of John Wesley on May 24, 1738, when, at a society meeting on Aldersgate Street in London, he felt his "heart strangely warmed." It is commonly called Wesley's conversion and is regarded as the event that launched the Methodist movement.

• John StottPeople

  John R. W. Stott (1921–2011) was an English Anglican priest, preacher, and author. A leading figure in the worldwide evangelical movement of the twentieth century, he led the drafting of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974.

• John MiltonPeople

  John Milton (1608–1674) was an English poet and polemicist. He wrote Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the fall of Adam and Eve, and served in the republican government during the Puritan Revolution.

• John NewtonPeople

  John Newton (1725–1807) was an English Anglican clergyman and hymn writer. A former captain of slave-trading ships, he underwent a conversion, wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace," and later took part in the movement to abolish the slave trade.

• History of The Salvation Army in KoreaHistory

  The history of The Salvation Army in Korea begins in 1908, when the British officer Robert Hoggard arrived in Seoul. Alongside evangelism, The Salvation Army in Korea has carried out poor relief and the Red Kettle fundraising campaign.

• Susanna WesleyPeople

  Susanna Wesley (1669–1742) was an Englishwoman and the mother of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, the leaders of the Methodist movement. Known for the religious instruction of her children and for the prayer meetings she held in the rectory kitchen, she is called the "Mother of Methodism."

• Horace UnderwoodPeople

  Horace Grant Underwood (1859–1916) was an American Northern Presbyterian missionary who arrived in Korea, then the Joseon kingdom, in 1885. He founded Saemunan Church and led the establishment of Kyungshin School and Chosen Christian College (Yonhi College). In Korea he was known as Won Du-u (元杜尤).

• Hampton Court ConferenceHistory

  The Hampton Court Conference was a meeting held in January 1604 at Hampton Court Palace, at which King James I of England summoned bishops of the Church of England and Puritan representatives to discuss demands for church reform. It gave rise to the translation of the King James Bible.

• Gladys AylwardPeople

  Gladys Aylward (1902–1970) was an English-born independent missionary. She evangelized and cared for orphans in Shanxi Province, China, and is known for leading more than one hundred orphans across the mountains to safety during the Second Sino-Japanese War.