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Yoido Full Gospel Church (Korean: 여의도 순복음 교회) is a Pentecostal church affiliated with the Assemblies of God on Yeouido (Yoi Island) in Seoul, South Korea. With about 480,000 members, it is the largest Pentecostal Christian congregation in South Korea.
David Yonggi Cho (Korean: 조용기; 14 February 1936 – 14 September 2021 as Paul Yungi Cho) was a South Korean Pentecostal Pastor.He was the founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church (Assemblies of God), which he started in a tent with 5 people (including his future mother-in-law Choi Ja-shil and her children as its first members), which eventually became the world's largest congregation ...
He began his ministry as pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church in 1977. [9] In 2008, he succeeded David Yonggi Cho as senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church. [10] [11] [12] He also became Superintendent of Assemblies of God of South Korea Yoido General Council in 2009. [13] In 2016, he became president of the Christian Council of Korea. [14]
South Korea has the world’s largest church congregation at the Yoido Full Gospel Church. The following year saw significant growth for the Presbyterian church in Korea. Among the reasons contributing to the growth in size of Christian communities in Korea was the fact that unlike in other countries, Christianity was not associated with ...
The Rev. Cho Yong-gi, whose founding of South Korea's biggest church was a symbol of the postwar growth of Christianity in the country before that achievement was tainted by corruption and other ...
Yeouido (Korean: 여의도; lit. Yeoui Island), also Yohido, is a river island on the Han River in Seoul, South Korea. It is Seoul's main finance, media, and investment banking district. It is 8.4 square kilometres (3.2 sq mi) large and has a population of 32,674 as of August 2023. [1]
After Choi and Cho graduated in 1958, they started a tent church with the two of them and Choi's three children. This would eventually grow to become the largest church in the world, the Yoido Full Gospel Church. [1] From the early stage of the church, Choi visited and cared for the poor, the sick, and the demon-possessed.
Hansei University (Korean: 한세대학교; Korean pronunciation:) is a mid-sized Evangelical Christian University located in Gunpo, South Korea. It is affiliated with Yoido Full Gospel Church . History