Korean
M is si o na r i es
Impacting
the
World
By Barbara Sandoz, Former One Mission Society
Missionary in South Korea
The Korea Evangelical Holiness Church (KEHC)
does an excellent job training their missionaries at
the Evangelical Missionary Training Center (EMTC) in
Incheon, South Korea. Here, new missionary candidates
live together and train from March through September.
After raising prayer and financial support, they conclude
nearly a year of preparation and are ready to go over-
seas. Then the cycle begins again with another group
of candidates. The 2017 missionaries are impacting
10 countries. Currently, 566 missionaries live and
work in 62 countries.
From March to July, the majority of instruction
takes place in Korean. In July, each candidate makes
a brief research trip to their assigned country, then they
come back to attend a two-week English camp called
Adventures in English (AIE), conducted by the OMS
Korea field leader, Susan Truitt. AIE ends early in August,
followed by two months of full-time, concentrated
English study at the training center.
My husband Jerry and I have gone annually
since 2015 to live at the EMTC as resident teachers
and mentors for this period of intensive English. The
candidates are about the ages of our own adult children,
so we are soon thought of as Dad and Mom. Having
“children” like this who love Jesus and are committed
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