Cho, David Yonggi

Cho, David Yonggi
▪ 1996

      The flourishing Christian church in South Korea owed much of its vitality to the Rev. David Yonggi Cho, who in September 1995 was unanimously reelected in Jerusalem to serve as chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Assemblies of God Fellowship.

      Cho Yonggi was born on Feb. 14, 1936, in a country village of Kyongsang Namdo, Korea. At the age of 17, when he was dying from tuberculosis, he experienced a healing from God and was led into the Christian faith. After graduating from Full Gospel Theological Seminary in 1958, he opened a tent church on a hillside near Seoul.

      At that time many Koreans were homeless and jobless as a consequence of the Korean War. Cho's hopeful message and reports of faith healing attracted many of the unfortunate to his church.

      As the congregation grew, the church was moved to a downtown area of Seoul and in 1973 to a new sanctuary known as Yoido Island. By 1981 Cho's congregation was said to include 200,000 people, and by 1995 it numbered an incredible 700,000.

      The central philosophy of Pastor Cho's ministry was the fivefold message of the gospel: rebirth, fullness of the Holy Spirit, blessings, healing, and the return of Jesus Christ to Earth; and the threefold message of salvation: spiritual, circumstantial, and physical blessings, presented as the nucleus of the gospel. Characteristic elements of his message were: the presence of God's kingdom, God's absolute sovereignty, total redemption and salvation through the cross of Jesus Christ, and walking together with the Holy Spirit.

      Fluent in English and Japanese, Cho had preached the gospel through television and radio in the U.S., Japan, Africa, and elsewhere. The church had sent more than 700 missionaries to 472 churches in 48 nations, including some in the Third World. Cho was also chairman of the Kook-min Daily, a newspaper he founded on Christian principles in 1988.

      The social work of the church included Elim Social Welfare Town, which cared for senior citizens who had no supporting families. Poverty-stricken young men and women were also trained there in a choice of four occupations. With funds earned from wastepaper collected for recycling, the Yoido Full Gospel Church had been able to give 2,000 children a new lease on life through open-heart surgery. The Bread of Grace an ongoing coin-collection campaign, supported Food for the Hungry programs throughout the world. Recently rice, clothes, medicine, and medical vehicles were given to some of the world's poorest nations. On Oct. 3, 1994, Cho led the World Prayer Rally via satellite, linking Korea's one million Christians with delegates from 133 nations gathered on Seoul's Yoido Plaza as they prayed for world peace and the preservation of the environment. (KANG SUK-KYU)

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