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Korea Campus Crusade for Christ
Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC) is an interdenominational campus mission organization founded in 1958 by the Rev. Kim Joon-gon. It is known as the first overseas branch of Campus Crusade for Christ, which began in the United States.
Rosetta Sherwood Hall
Rosetta Sherwood Hall (1865–1951) was an American Methodist medical missionary. She arrived in Korea (Joseon) in 1890 and for more than forty years devoted herself to medical care for women, the training of women physicians, and the education of the blind.
Far East Broadcasting Company (Korea)
The Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) is an interdenominational Protestant missionary radio broadcaster that went on the air in Incheon in 1956. It is known for its domestic gospel broadcasting as well as its "northern mission" broadcasts aimed at communist countries such as North Korea, China, and Russia.
Duranno Ministry
Duranno Ministry (Duranno Seowon) is a Protestant publishing and literature mission organization founded by Pastor Ha Yong-jo in 1980. It publishes the quiet time devotional Living Life and magazines such as Light and Salt and Ministry and Theology, and it runs educational programs for church members and pastors.
David Livingstone
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.
Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson (1788–1850) was an American Baptist missionary. Working in Burma (present-day Myanmar) for nearly forty years beginning in 1813, he produced the first complete translation of the Bible into Burmese, and his work led to the formation of an American Baptist foreign mission organization.
Jim Elliot
Jim Elliot (1927–1956) was an American Protestant missionary. In 1956 he was killed in Ecuador, along with four fellow missionaries, while attempting to bring the gospel to the Waorani people (formerly called the "Auca").
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (1910–1997) was a Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India, to care for the poor, the sick, and the dying. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was canonized by the Catholic Church in 2016.
Gladys Aylward
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.
John G. Paton
John Gibson Paton (1824–1907) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary. He served on the islands of Tanna and Aniwa in the New Hebrides (present-day Vanuatu) in the South Pacific and translated the New Testament into the Aniwan language.
Eric Liddell
Eric Liddell (1902–1945) was a Scottish athlete and missionary. At the 1924 Paris Olympics he declined to run in the 100 meters heats, which were held on a Sunday, and went on to win the gold medal in the 400 meters. He later served as a missionary in China and died in a Japanese internment camp.
James Scarth Gale
James Scarth Gale (1863–1937) was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary whose Korean name was Gi Il (奇一). He served as the first senior pastor of Yeondong Church, produced the first Korean translation of The Pilgrim's Progress, and took part in compiling A Korean-English Dictionary and in translating the Bible.
Robert Hardie
Robert Alexander Hardie (1865–1949) was a Canadian medical missionary and Methodist minister. Known in Korea as Ha Ri-yeong (河鯉泳), he is remembered for leading the 1903 Wonsan Revival.
William Linton
William Alderman Linton (1891–1960) was an American Southern Presbyterian educational missionary. Known in Korea as In Don (印敦), he devoted forty-eight years to school education in the Honam and Chungcheong regions and founded Daejeon Christian College, the predecessor of Hannam University.
Homer Hulbert
Homer Hulbert (1863–1949) was an American Methodist missionary and educator. He came to Joseon in 1886 as an English teacher at the Yugyeong Gongwon (Royal English School). He later promoted Hangul, the Korean alphabet, engaged in journalism and writing, and supported the Korean independence movement, notably by assisting the dispatch of secret envoys to The Hague in 1907.
John Nevius
John Livingston Nevius (1829–1893) was an American missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian) who worked in China for about forty years. The mission methods he introduced during his 1890 visit to Korea became established as the "Nevius Mission Policy" and laid the foundation of the early Korean Presbyterian Church.
Clement Owen
Clement Owen (1867–1909) was an ordained minister and medical missionary sent to Korea by the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States. His Korean name was O Gi-won. Based mainly in Mokpo and Gwangju, he carried out medical mission work and itinerant evangelism in South Jeolla Province.
Karl Gützlaff
Karl Gützlaff (1803–1851) was a Prussian Protestant missionary. In 1832 he sailed aboard a British merchant ship that anchored near Godae Island in Chungcheong Province, and he is regarded as the first Protestant missionary to set foot on Korean soil.
Wiley Forsythe
Wiley Hamilton Forsythe (1873–1918) was a medical missionary sent to Korea by the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern Presbyterian Church); his Korean name was Bo Wi-ryeom. In 1909 he brought a woman with leprosy whom he had found collapsed by the roadside to Gwangju, an act widely regarded as the beginning of ministry to people with Hansen's disease in the Gwangju region.
Church Growth Movement
The Church Growth Movement originated in the 1950s with the missionary Donald McGavran. A current within evangelical missiology, it sought to study the causes of church growth through surveys, statistics, and sociology and to apply the findings to evangelism and mission. It is also known as church growth studies.