At the end of 2017, we began the
#GiveLight to North Korea campaign in
an effort to bring light to the more than 20
million North Koreans living in darkness,
having NEVER heard the Gospel. To date,
more than $40,000 has been raised. THANK YOU!
Through our partnership with Sarangnaru, funds
have already been used to reach out to North Korean
defectors and their children through tutoring services, shar-
ing the Gospel, and planting a church. We have also used funds
to disciple North Korean transients in China, for prayer ministries in
North Korea, and for Adventures in English for a United Korea, (our
English camp for North Korean defectors held in August 2018).
Additionally, donations are being used to run a group home
for young North Korean defectors and South Koreans to live
together and be discipled, as well as providing funding for
scholarships for defectors to attend Seoul Theological
University (STU) to be trained to become pastors in the
Korea Evangelical Holiness Church (KEHC), the OMS-
founded denomination.
As you may know, since the mid-1990s, more
than 1 million people have died of starvation
from the famine and economic collapse in
North Korea, and many people have crossed
the border, seeking relief. Each year, up to
3,000 people enter South Korea, and now,
more than 30,000 North Korean defectors live
in South Korea. Among them, a few thousand
have become Christians.
North Korean defectors who come to
know Christ can be quite effective in shar-
ing the Gospel with North Koreans since they
understand their situation. In the future, we
hope they will also be effective in sharing the
Gospel around the world, as they have been refined
through the fires of suffering in ways that most other
people have not.
The KEHC now desires to train North Korean defectors as pastors by facilitating their
study at STU. However, it is difficult for most of these defectors to afford both the tuition
and their living expenses while attending seminary. Therefore, OMS is cooperating with the
KEHC North Korea Missions Committee and STU to provide scholarships. We are committed
to providing $10,000 for five defectors to attend the seminary.
If you would like to be a part of this continued effort to reach North Koreans with the
Gospel, you may send your gift for project #407995 to OMS.
Thank you again for your partnership in the Gospel!
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