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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 ...
Cho, an emeritus pastor at Seoul’s Yoido Full Gospel Church, died at a Seoul hospital where he had been treated since he collapsed due to a cerebral hemorrhage in July 2020, the church said.
He began his ministry as pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church in 1977. [10] In 2008, he succeeded David Yonggi Cho as senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church. [11] [12] [13] He also became Superintendent of Assemblies of God of South Korea Yoido General Council in 2009. [14] In 2016, he became president of the Christian Council of Korea. [15]
The island contains the National Assembly Building, where the National Assembly of South Korea meets, the Korea Financial Investment Association, the large Yoido Full Gospel Church, the 63 Building, and the headquarters of LG, Korean Broadcasting System, and the Korea Exchange Center.
Yoido has hovered around a very respectable 250,000 members for many years now. They count all present and past members in their 850,000 number, not actual current members. To change this lofty number would only cause them to lose face. I wish they would own up to the actual number of current members in the church today and not do this.
The San Francisco Historical Society was founded in 1988 by historian Charles A. Fracchia. [1]In February 2002, the San Francisco Historical Society merged with the Museum of the City of San Francisco to create the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, [2] which the San Francisco municipal government recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco. [3]
Ahn's original passport, numbered 52, issued by the Korean Empire on 9 August 1902, is now located in the Independence Hall of Korea. On October 14, 1902, Ahn and his wife arrived in San Francisco. [8] They were among the first Koreans to move to the US, and the first married Korean couple to do so, with passports numbered 51 and 52.