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Samuel Wesley
[People]Samuel Wesley (1662–1735) was a Church of England priest and poet. He served as rector of Epworth for nearly forty years and was the father of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, leaders of the Methodist movement.
Ju Gi-cheol
[People]Ju Gi-cheol (1897–1944) was a Korean Presbyterian minister during the Japanese colonial period. While serving as senior pastor of Sanjeonghyeon Church in Pyongyang, he steadfastly refused to take part in Shinto shrine worship. He was imprisoned for his refusal and died a martyr in Pyongyang Prison.
Yi Gi-pung
[People]Yi Gi-pung (李基豊, 1865–1942) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. In 1907 he was one of the first seven Koreans ordained to the ministry, and as the first missionary sent out by the Independent Presbytery of the Korean Presbyterian Church, he founded churches on Jeju Island. He died from the aftereffects of torture he suffered for refusing Shinto shrine worship.
Yi Yong-do
[People]Yi Yong-do (1901–1933) was a Methodist minister and revivalist active in Korea during the Japanese colonial period and is officially recognized for his contributions to Korean independence. In the early 1930s he led revival meetings throughout the country, but critics accused him of mysticism, and he became embroiled in a heresy controversy at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.
Bang Ji-il
[People]Bang Ji-il (1911–2014) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). Beginning in 1937, he served for twenty-one years as a missionary in Shandong Province, China. After returning to Korea, he became senior pastor of Yeongdeungpo Church in Seoul and moderator of his denomination's General Assembly. Because he remained active past the age of one hundred, he was known as "the eternal active-duty minister."
Ha Yong-jo
[People]Ha Yong-jo (1946–2011) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). He founded Onnuri Church and the Christian publisher Duranno, and he was known for cultural evangelism and for his pastoral vision of an "Acts-style church."
Yi Ja-ik
[People]Yi Ja-ik was a Korean Presbyterian minister active during the Japanese colonial period and the years immediately following liberation. Once a hired farmhand in the household of a wealthy family in Gimje, he became a minister, served three terms as moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, and was the first principal of Daejeon Theological Seminary.
Lyman Beecher
[People]Lyman Beecher (1775–1863) was a nineteenth-century American Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister and revivalist. He was a leader of the temperance movement and served as president of Lane Theological Seminary.
Christian Council of Korea
[Institutions]The Christian Council of Korea (CCK; Korean abbreviation Hangichong) is an interdenominational body of Korean Protestant denominations founded in 1989 under the leadership of Rev. Han Kyung-chik and other senior conservative church leaders. It was long regarded as the representative organization of conservative Korean Protestantism, but after a series of schisms in the 2010s its major member denominations withdrew.
World Vision
[Institutions]World Vision is an international Christian relief and development nongovernmental organization. It began in 1950, during the Korean War, when the American missionary Bob Pierce and Korean church leaders, including the Rev. Han Kyung-chik, began helping war orphans and widows.
Faye Moon
[People]Faye Moon (Moon Hye-rim, 1936–2022) was an American-born social worker and human rights activist and the wife of the Rev. Moon Dong-hwan. She publicized news of South Korea's democratization movement abroad, and in 1986 she founded Durebang, a mission center in Uijeongbu, South Korea, that assists women in U.S. military camp towns.
John Stott
[People]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.
Kang Shin-myung
[People]Kang Shin-myung (1909–1985) was a minister and educator in the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). He served for many years as senior pastor of Saemoonan Church and held the offices of moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap) and president of Soongjun University (now Soongsil University).
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.
Lee Hyun-pil
[People]Lee Hyun-pil (1913–1964) was a Korean Protestant lay ascetic active during the Japanese colonial period and after Korea's liberation. He founded Donggwangwon, a community devoted to poverty, chastity (celibacy), and labor, and he is known as the "Barefoot Saint."
Paik Nak-chun
[People]Paik Nak-chun (白樂濬, 1895–1985), also known as George Paik, was a Korean church historian, educator, and politician. His English-language doctoral dissertation on the history of Protestant missions in Korea was later published in Korean as *Hanguk Gaesingyosa* (History of Korean Protestantism). He served as president of Yonhi University, as South Korea's second Minister of Education, and as Speaker of the House of Councillors.
1973 Billy Graham Crusade in Korea
[History]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.
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.