Augie
Korea – Mongolia
Connections for the Gospel
By Susan Truitt,
OMS South Korea Field Director, and
Yoonhoe Koo, Sarangnaru Director
Rev. Min-cheol Lee
Rev. Sungho Kim
Before the division into North and South Korea, there were
about 3,000 churches in North Korea, and at least 82 of
those were Korea Evangelical Holiness Churches (KEHC)
started by Koreans who were trained
by One Mission Society. In particular,
Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, ex-
perienced spiritual revival in 1907 and
became known as the “Jerusalem of
the East.” But during the Korean War,
churches in the north were laid waste,
and most Christians fled to the south.
During the war, many pastors in the
north sent their families to flee south,
while they stayed with their churches.
Many were captured and suffered greatly,
finally dying a martyr’s death. In the de-
cades that followed, the churches and
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