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Sending Missionaries By Susan Truitt Philippines Missionary in South Korea One Mission Society South Korea is an exciting place to be involved in God’s work. Across denominations and organizations, more than 25,000 Korean missionaries serve cross-culturally all over the world today. The One Mission Societyrelated Korea Evangelical Holiness Church (KEHC), which OMS started in 1907, currently has about 560 missionaries serving in 60 countries. How did all this mission work begin? The first KEHC church outside of Korea was planted in 1925 in Manchuria (Northeast China). Between 1925 and Korea’s liberation from Japan in 1945, several more churches were planted in both China and Japan. Then, in the 1960s, Koreans started emigrating to places like Brazil, the United States, and Canada, where KEHC churches were planted, mainly serving Koreans living there. However, the fullfledged overseas cross-cultural missionary work of the KEHC South Asia 24