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¡°For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of
the glory of the Lord, as the water covers the sea.(Habakkuk
2:14)
The Great Commission of reaching the good news to every
corner of the earth? was left to the church as Jesus rose
to heaven promising his second coming. The primary reason
for the church to exist is its mission, which is the intensive
Great Commandment of Jesus, Therefore go and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to
obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am
with you always, to the very end of the age.(Matthew 28:19~20)
With this in mind, Grace Korean Church was found in May
1982 with three families. Three years later, the church
congregation grew to be about 1,000 members with an annual
budget of $1,500,000. With the help of the Holy Spirit
and Pastor Kim passionate prayer for world missions, the
growth of this church and its expansion of missions made
an epoch in Korean American church history and was enough
to draw attention from the entire American Christendom.
Appropriating 50% of the church budget for missions, Pastor
David Kim declared Grace Korean Church as a world mission
church. By the fifth year anniversary in 1987, the church
budget exceeded two million dollars. Consequently, more
than a million dollars was given to world missions. Through
such enormous expenditures on world missions, Grace Korean
Church considered itself church existing for mission?which
has been rare in the immigrant church history.
Under the slogan of, Mission is Prayer. Mission is War.
Mission is Martyrdom,? Grace Korean Church has committed
to each mission field and commissioned missionaries through
earnest prayers. The first missionary sent from Grace
Korean Church was Missionary Hwang to Guam in July 1982.
Since then, Grace Korean Church has dispatched many missionaries
around the world, mainly to Africa, South America, China,
and to past Soviet Union territories. As of 2004, Grace
Korean Church has sent out 141 missionaries who successfully
carry out the Great Commission of Jesus in 36 countries.
Grace Korean Church will continually investigate every God given resource
to fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus Christ by supporting mission fields
and sending missionaries throughout the world. May the Lord Jesus be exalted
as the church steadfastly dedicate in spreading the Gospel to every nation
on the earth!
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