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• Carmi (son of Zabdi)

  Carmi is an Old Testament figure from the clan of Zerah in the tribe of Judah. He was the son of Zabdi and the father of Achan, who secretly took some of the devoted things at Jericho. His name appears in Joshua 7 and 1 Chronicles 2:7.

• 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.

• Achan

  Achan was a man of the tribe of Judah who appears in Joshua 7. During the fall of Jericho he secretly took items that had been devoted to God, bringing about Israel's defeat at Ai, and he was executed in the Valley of Achor.

• Mount Carmel

  Mount Carmel is a mountain range in northern Israel that extends inland toward the southeast from the Mediterranean coast. It is best known as the place where Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal and prayed for rain (1 Kings 18).

• Calming the Storm

  Calming the Storm is the miracle in which Jesus, in a boat crossing the Sea of Galilee, rebuked the wind and the waves and made them still. It is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

• Carmel (Judah)

  Carmel (Judah) was a town in the southern hill country of Judah, near Maon and south of Hebron. Saul set up a monument there, and it is the setting of the story of Nabal and Abigail. It is distinct from Mount Carmel in the north.

• Carmelites

  The Carmelites are a Catholic religious order that originated in a community of hermits on Mount Carmel in the twelfth century. The order centers on contemplative prayer, a silent resting in God while gazing upon him.

• Contest on Mount Carmel

  The contest on Mount Carmel was an event during the reign of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel in which the prophet Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and demonstrated that the God who answers by fire is the true God. It is recorded in 1 Kings 18.

• 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.

• Abigail

  Abigail is a woman who appears in 1 Samuel 25. She was the wife of Nabal the Carmelite, but with wise words and gifts she turned back David, who was on his way to attack her husband. After Nabal's death she became David's wife.

• Nabal

  Nabal was a wealthy man from Maon, described in 1 Samuel 25, who insultingly refused David's request. He escaped David's retaliation through the intercession of his wife Abigail but died about ten days later.

• Kadmiel

  Kadmiel is the name of a Levitical family, or of its head, among the Levites who returned from the Babylonian exile. The name appears in Ezra and Nehemiah, which record Kadmiel overseeing the rebuilding of the temple, taking part in the prayer of repentance in Nehemiah 9, and sealing the covenant.

• Fig Tree

  The fig tree, together with the grapevine and the olive tree, is one of the fruit trees most characteristic of the land of Israel. In the Bible it symbolizes peace and abundance, and it frequently serves as a figure for the people of Israel.

• Stephen Langton

  Stephen Langton (c. 1150–1228) was an English theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury, widely known for establishing the chapter divisions used in Bibles today.

• Philippians 2:5-8

  A passage stating that Christ, though equal with God, "made himself of no reputation" (literally, "emptied himself"), took upon him the form of a servant, and became obedient unto death on the cross. It is the New Testament's most concentrated presentation of Christ's humiliation and became the starting point of the kenosis debate.

• Aaron's Rod

  Aaron's rod was the staff carried by Aaron, the elder brother of Moses, and was used to perform signs before Pharaoh during the Exodus. In the wilderness it budded and bore fruit overnight, becoming a sign that confirmed the priesthood of Aaron's house.

• Judges 16

  Judges 16 recounts how Samson carried off the gates of Gaza, revealed the secret of his strength to Delilah and was captured by the Philistines, and finally brought down the temple of Dagon, dying in its collapse.

• Medical Missions

  Medical missions is a form of mission that combines caring for the sick through medical practice with proclaiming the gospel or living out the Christian faith. Korean Protestantism is so closely tied to medical missions that it can be said to have begun with the hospital work of its early missionaries.

• Return from Exile

  The return from exile was the return of the people of Judah, who had been carried off to Babylon, to Jerusalem in several waves after the decree of Cyrus, king of Persia, and their rebuilding of the temple and the city walls.

• 1 Kings 18:21

  These are the words Elijah spoke on Mount Carmel, demanding that the people of Israel, who were wavering between Baal and the LORD, make a clear choice for God. The verse is frequently cited as a call to decisive faith and a warning against syncretism.