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Good News Mission () was established by Pastor Ock Soo Park who was trained in a missionary school started by evangelical missionaries dispatched from the UK, the US, and other countries after the Korean War. As the first graduate, Pastor Park was commissioned to lead a missionary school on behalf of these missionaries when they returned home and he has led Good News Mission ever since 1976. The Good News Mission has established 178 churches in Korea (2013), and has dispatched 214 missionaries to 80 countries from the 1989 to now. It has established the Mahanaim Bible College educating and training Korean and foreign missionaries and has established over 760 churches in Korea and abroad. The Good News Mission preaches the gospel through bible seminars, retreats, and student camps in Korea and abroad. In addition to missionary activities, NGOs have been founded in over 30 countries to develop youth and young leaders through youth mind education, cultural exchange programs, educational academies, and social service activities. Moreover, domestic university students have been dispatched abroad as overseas volunteers. The Good News Mission has also actively set about missionary work in Africa, Central America, and South America through medical volunteering, founding schools, and establishing broadcasting networks. As of now, the followings are the statistics of Good News Mission’s Global presence: - 178 Korean Churches - 582 International Churches (182 churches established by Korean missionaries) - 214 missionaries dispatched from the Korean mission’s headquarters - Approximately 400 ministers dispatched by international churches (2013. 7.) - 4,442 short-term missionaries dispatched from 2002 until now - 29 Mahanaim Bible Colleges == Controversy == In December 2011, several college students attended an "English Camp" sponsored by Good News Mission after claiming to being mislead they would be teaching English in Mexico. Instead, the students were allegedly subjected to religious lectures in ballrooms guarded by security personnel that discouraged members from leaving. One of the college students attending the event said "I was the victim of a scam.” In 2012, One Rutgers student blogs about his experience attending a Good News Mission camp. He describes Ock Soo's daily two hour "Mind Lectures" followed by long and intense personal meetings. He further details a wedding held on the last day of the camp where all members of the camp were required to attend. After the wedding, Ock Soo gave another lecture and babtized over a hundred members in the hotel pool. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Good News Mission」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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