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• Christian Literature Center (CLC Korea)

  The Christian Literature Center (CLC) is the Korean branch of CLC, an international literature mission organization founded in England in 1941. It began operating in 1975 and is an incorporated association that publishes and distributes theological and devotional books.

• Sending of the Seventy

  An event in which Jesus appointed seventy others, apart from the Twelve, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every town he intended to visit. It is recorded only in Luke 10.

• Henry Martyn

  Henry Martyn (1781–1812) was a Church of England priest and a missionary who worked in India and Persia. He translated the New Testament into Urdu, Persian, and Arabic.

• Azusa Street Revival

  The Azusa Street Revival was a series of revival meetings led by the Black preacher William J. Seymour at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles, beginning in 1906. It is widely regarded as the defining event in the emergence of the modern Pentecostal movement.

• Guwonpa (Salvation Sect)

  Guwonpa ("Salvation Sect") is the collective name Korean Protestants use for the Kwon Shin-chan–Yoo Byung-eun line, which began in Daegu in the early 1960s, and for the Lee Yo-han and Park Ock-soo lines, which either split from it or share its roots. Korea's major denominations have declared it heretical.

• Eugene Bell

  Eugene Bell (1868–1925), known in Korean as Bae Yu-ji, was an American Southern Presbyterian missionary. He founded mission stations in Mokpo and Gwangju and established churches, schools, and hospitals, earning the title "Father of the Honam Mission."

• Jingjiao

  Jingjiao (景敎, "the Luminous Religion") was the Chinese name for the Christianity that entered China during the Tang dynasty. It was introduced in 635 by the Persian-based Church of the East (commonly called "Nestorian") and spread under the protection of the Tang imperial court for about 210 years, until around 845.

• Soongsil School

  Soongsil School was a Christian school founded in Pyongyang in 1897 by William Baird, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). In 1938 it closed voluntarily rather than submit to Shinto shrine worship. After liberation and the division of Korea, it was reestablished in Seoul, and its legacy continues in Soongsil Middle and High Schools and Soongsil University.

• William Scranton

  William Scranton (1856–1922) was a medical missionary and minister sent to Korea by the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. He founded Sibyeongwon hospital and took part in founding the Sangdong, Ahyeon, and Dongdaemun churches. His mother, Mary Scranton, founded Ewha Haktang.

• Henry Appenzeller

  Henry Appenzeller (1858–1902) was an American missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church (North) who arrived in Korea (Joseon) in 1885. He founded Paichai Hakdang and Chungdong First Methodist Church and took part in Bible translation. He died in 1902 in a shipwreck off Eocheongdo Island.

• Lausanne Movement

  The Lausanne Movement is an evangelical world mission movement that began at the International Congress on World Evangelization (the First Lausanne Congress), held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1974. The Lausanne Covenant, adopted at that congress, is the movement's foundational document.

• CGNTV

  CGN (Christian Global Network) is a Protestant mission broadcaster operated by the Onnuri Mission Foundation, an incorporated foundation established chiefly by Onnuri Church. It began broadcasting in 2005 under the name CGNTV, and its primary audiences are overseas missionaries and Koreans living around the world.

• Amy Carmichael

  Amy Carmichael (1867–1951) was an Irish missionary. She served in South India for fifty-five years, founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, and is known for rescuing and caring for children who had been dedicated to Hindu temples.

• William Arthur Noble

  William Arthur Noble (1866–1945) was a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the northern branch of American Methodism). He served in Korea from 1892 to 1934 and, after the death of William James Hall, took over and expanded the Methodist mission in Pyongyang.

• The Navigators

  The Navigators is an interdenominational mission organization founded by Dawson Trotman in the United States in 1933. It is known for discipleship training centered on one-to-one mentoring and Scripture memorization, and it officially began its ministry in Korea in 1966.

• Sarah Barry

  Sarah Barry (born 1930) is a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, the Southern Presbyterian Church). In 1961 she co-founded University Bible Fellowship (UBF) in Gwangju with Samuel Lee (Lee Chang-woo), and in 2002 she became the second general director of UBF worldwide.

• Edith Schaeffer

  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.

• History of Protestantism in Korea

  The history of Protestantism in Korea extends from the arrival of American missionaries in 1884–1885 to the present day. It encompasses the arrival of missionaries, revival movements and church organization, persecution and the Shinto shrine worship controversy under Japanese rule, and denominational divisions and growth after liberation.

• Horace Underwood

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

• Korea Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship

  Korea Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVF) is an interdenominational university student mission organization in South Korea that became a full member of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in 1956. It is known for small-group Bible study on university campuses and for the books published by its publishing arm, IVP.