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Riot at Ephesus
[Bible]The riot at Ephesus took place while Paul was staying in Ephesus during his third missionary journey. Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver models of the goddess Artemis, stirred up his fellow craftsmen, and the whole city rushed into the theater (Acts 19:23–41).
Light to the Gentiles
[Bible]"Light to the Gentiles" is an expression in the Book of Isaiah indicating that the Servant of God was given a mission to bring the light of salvation beyond Israel to all nations. The New Testament applies it to Jesus Christ and to the preaching of the gospel.
C. Peter Wagner
[People]C. Peter Wagner (1930–2016) was an American missionary and missiologist. He taught church growth at Fuller Theological Seminary and later championed the New Apostolic Reformation, which brought him into controversy with a number of denominations.
Saint Patrick
[People]Saint Patrick (Patricius, 5th century) was a missionary and bishop from Roman Britannia who brought Christianity to Ireland. He is the patron saint of Ireland and is commemorated on March 17.
Byeongin Persecution
[History]The Byeongin Persecution (丙寅迫害) was the mass arrest and execution of Catholics and French missionaries carried out by the Joseon court beginning in 1866, while the Heungseon Daewongun held power. It is regarded as the largest persecution in the history of the Catholic Church in Korea.
Acts 16
[Bible]Acts 16 recounts how, during Paul's second missionary journey, Timothy joins him, a vision leads him across to Macedonia, and in Philippi the households of Lydia and the jailer are baptized.
William James Hall
[People]William James Hall (1860–1894) was a Canadian-born physician and medical missionary sent by the Methodist Episcopal Church (the American Northern Methodists). He pioneered the Methodist mission in Pyongyang and died of illness contracted while treating the wounded during the First Sino-Japanese War. He was the husband of Rosetta Hall.
Sexual Violence in the Church
[Controversies]Sexual violence in the church is sexual violence that occurs within communities of faith such as churches and mission organizations. Views differ on what procedures the church should use to handle such cases and on whether a pastor who has committed abuse may return to ministry.
Silas
[People]Silas appears in the New Testament book of Acts as a leader of the Jerusalem church who accompanied Paul on his second missionary journey. In the Pauline epistles and 1 Peter he appears under the name Silvanus.
Iconium
[Bible]Iconium was a city in south-central Asia Minor where Paul and Barnabas preached the gospel during the first missionary journey until persecution forced them to leave. It is identified today with Konya, Turkey.
Macedonian Vision
[Bible]The Macedonian vision is a vision that Paul saw at night in Troas during his second missionary journey. A man of Macedonia appealed to him, "Come over into Macedonia, and help us," and in response Paul and his companions crossed the sea to Philippi, where they preached the gospel (Acts 16:6–10).
Jason
[People]Jason was a believer in Thessalonica who received Paul and his companions into his home during Paul's second missionary journey, was caught up in the ensuing riot, and was dragged before the city authorities. He appears in Acts 17.
Perga
[Bible]Perga was a city in the region of Pamphylia in southern Asia Minor. In the Book of Acts it appears as the place where Mark left Paul's company during the first missionary journey and as a city where Paul and his companions preached the word on their return.
C. T. Studd
[People]C. T. Studd (1860–1931) was a British missionary and former England international cricketer. As one of the Cambridge Seven, he went to China, later served in India, and then worked in Africa, where he founded the forerunner of WEC International.
David Bosch
[People]David Jacobus Bosch (1929–1992) was a South African missiologist. He is known for Transforming Mission (1991), which traces how missionary thought has changed over the course of history.
Ralph Winter
[People]Ralph D. Winter (1924–2009) was an American Presbyterian missionary and missiologist. At the 1974 Lausanne Congress he introduced the concept of "hidden peoples" (unreached people groups), and he founded the U.S. Center for World Mission.
Columba
[People]Columba (c. 521–597) was an Irish monk and missionary. He founded a monastery on the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland and, using it as his base, spread Christianity in Scotland and northern England.
John Heron
[People]John W. Heron (1856–1890) was the first medical missionary formally appointed by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian Church) for service in Joseon Korea. He served as the second director of Jejungwon and was the first person buried in the Yanghwajin Foreign Cemetery.
History of Methodism in Korea
[History]The history of Methodism in Korea began in 1884, when the American Methodist missionary Robert Maclay received permission from King Gojong to begin mission work. The church then went through the union of its northern and southern Methodist branches, trials under Japanese colonial rule, and division and reunification after liberation before becoming today's Korean Methodist Church.
Paichai Haktang
[History]Paichai Haktang was a private secondary school founded in 1885 in Jeong-dong, Seoul, by Henry Appenzeller, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. It is regarded as Korea's first modern private school, and its successors are today's Paichai Middle School and Paichai High School.