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Annie Baird
[People]Annie Baird (1864–1916) was an American woman missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian), known in Korea as An Ae-ri (安愛理). The wife of William Baird (Bae Wi-ryang), she worked in Busan and Pyongyang and left hymn translations and Korean-language writings.
Emma Revell
[People]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.
Joy Davidman
[People]Joy Davidman (1915–1960) was an American poet and writer. Raised in a Jewish family, she was an atheist before converting to Christianity. She wrote Smoke on the Mountain, an interpretation of the Ten Commandments, and married C. S. Lewis in 1956.
Choi Ja-shil
[People]Choi Ja-shil (1915–1989) was a Korean Pentecostal woman minister. In 1958, together with David Yonggi Cho, who later became her son-in-law, she founded the Daejo-dong tent church, which became today's Yoido Full Gospel Church.
Coretta Scott King
[People]Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) was an American civil rights activist and singer and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. After her husband's assassination in 1968, she carried on his nonviolent movement for nearly forty years.
Florence Mackenzie
[People]Florence Mackenzie (1911–1984) was a Canadian nurse. In 1934 she married Eric Liddell, the Scottish missionary and Olympic gold medalist, in Tianjin, China, and served with him as a missionary in China.
Elisabeth Elliot
[People]Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) was an American Protestant missionary and Christian author. After her husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in Ecuador, she went to live in a village of the Waorani people who had killed him and shared the gospel with them. She wrote numerous books, including Through Gates of Splendor.
Henry Dodge Appenzeller
[People]Henry Dodge Appenzeller (1889–1953) was an American Methodist missionary born in Seoul. He served for about twenty years as the fifth principal of Pai Chai Haktang, the school founded by his father, Henry Appenzeller, and led relief work during the Korean War.
Lee Chang-woo (pastor)
[People]Lee Chang-woo (1931–2002) was a South Korean Presbyterian minister. In 1961 in Gwangju he cofounded the University Bible Fellowship (UBF) with Sarah Barry, a missionary of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States, and he led the organization until his death in 2002.
Edith Schaeffer
[People]Edith Schaeffer (1914–2013) was an American missionary and Christian author. With her husband, Francis Schaeffer, she founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland in 1955.
Patsy Bolling Reynolds
[People]Patsy Bolling Reynolds (1868–1962) was an American Southern Presbyterian missionary. In 1892 she came to Korea with her husband, William Reynolds (Korean name Yi Nul-seo), as one of the seven members of the Southern Presbyterian pioneer party, and she served there until 1937.
Helen Thompson Sunday
[People]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.
Choi Young-wook
[People]Choi Young-wook (1891–1950) was a Christian physician active in Gwangju, Korea. He worked as a physician at the Gwangju Jejungwon and served as president of the Gwangju YMCA. Under the United States Army Military Government in Korea, he was governor of South Jeolla Province. He was killed by the Korean People's Army during the Korean War.
Priscilla Studd
[People]Priscilla Studd (1864–1929) was an Irish-born Protestant missionary. While serving in China she married C. T. Studd, and while her husband worked in Africa she led the British home headquarters of the mission that became the forerunner of WEC International.
Artemis of Ephesus
[Bible]Artemis was a goddess worshiped in ancient Ephesus and identified with the Artemis of Greek mythology; the King James Version calls her Diana. In Acts 19, a riot breaks out in Ephesus when Paul's preaching of the gospel threatens the trade in silver models of her image.
Sceva
[People]Sceva was a Jewish priest (or high priest) mentioned in Acts 19. He is known for an incident in Ephesus in which his seven sons tried, and failed, to cast out evil spirits by invoking the name of Jesus whom Paul preached.
Chimham
[People]Chimham was the man whom the aged Barzillai sent with King David in his place when David crossed the Jordan to return to Jerusalem after Absalom's rebellion had been put down. He appears only in 2 Samuel 19.
105-Man Incident
[History]The 105-Man Incident was a 1911 case in which the Japanese Government-General of Korea fabricated a plot to assassinate Governor-General Terauchi and arrested hundreds of members of the New People's Association (Sinminhoe) and Christians from Korea's northwestern provinces. Its name comes from the 105 defendants convicted at the first trial.
The Korean War and the Church
[History]This article covers the losses suffered by Korean Protestantism during the Korean War (1950–1953) and its responses to them. It addresses the changes the war brought to the Korean church, including the deaths of believers and the destruction of churches, refugee flight and relief work, the establishment of the military chaplaincy, and the division of the Presbyterian Church.
Kim Jae-jun
[People]Kim Jae-jun (金在俊, 1901–1987) was a Korean Presbyterian minister and progressive theologian whose pen name was Changgong (長空). He played a central role in founding Chosun Theological Seminary (now Hanshin University) and in forming the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea, and he also took part in the democratization movement.