Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
The Yoido Full Gospel Church was founded in 1958 by Pastor David Yonggi Cho and his mother-in-law, Choi Ja-shil, both Assemblies of God pastors. [5] [6] On 15 May 1958, a worship service was held in the home of Choi Ja-shil. Apart from the two pastors, only Choi Ja-shil's three daughters (one of whom later married David Yungi Cho) and one ...
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]
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 ...
David Yonggi Cho: Senior Pastor of the largest church in the world, Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea: Korea: Vern Clark: Admiral (United States Navy, Retired) – Former Chief of Naval Operations, graduate of Evangel College Springfield, Missouri: United States of America Bruce Cozart: member of the Arkansas House of ...
Dr. Hogan was elected the first chairman of the Fellowship and served until 1992 when Rev. David Yonggi Cho was elected chairman. In 1993, the name of the Fellowship was changed to the World Assemblies of God Fellowship. [12] In 2000, Thomas E. Trask was elected to succeed Cho. [13]
Supporters of the revival would also cite prophecies by Dr. David Yonggi Cho, pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church, as evidence that the revival was inspired by God. According to Cho, God told him he was "going to send revival to the seaside city of Pensacola, and it will spread like a fire until all of America has been consumed by it." [4]
The G12 Vision was formulated in 1991 by Pastor César Castellanos, after attending the Yoido Full Gospel Church in 1983. Seeing that their cell group model fosters church growth, he revamped David Yonggi Cho's South Korean church growth strategy.