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42 Baekjedaehak-ro, Bongdong-eup, Wanju-gun 58 Yongwa-ro, Samnye-eup, Wanju-gun https://harichurch.modoo.at

Im Gwang-ho, the founder of the Hari
Evangelical Holiness Church, was born on
March 15, 1923 in Hwanghae Province. While
working as an evangelist after studying theology
in Manchuria with the support of his father,
a doctor, and his mother, an evangelist, the
communist party of Kim Il-sung with atheism
and historical materialism was in power over
northern part of 38th parallel north, so Im
Gwang-ho come to South for religious freedom.
Hari Church When the church was revived spiritually, it was
persecuted by local communists.
Originally, Wari, Samnye-eup, has been in
dispute between Japanese farmers and tenant
Jenae Church Korean farmers since the 1920s, and it was a
place where communists intervened and there
were many local communists, so Communist
“Where would the shepherd activities were active enough to refer to it as
“Jenae Church started with 13 people at Elder go leaving his sheep?” Moscow of South Korea, and 8,000 people
Kim Sung-sik’s house in Mandong Village on March 5, 1900.”
gathered at a rally against the establishment
of the Korean government in February 1948
after liberation. Evangelist Im Gwang-ho came
Jenae Church started in 1900 in Mandong Village to Hari and founded and revived Hari Church
in Jenae-ri, Bongdong-eup, Wanju-gun, where with the support of Samrye Evangelical Holiness
13 people gathered to worship. A three-room Church (Pastor Cho Seok-woo) , and the Korean War
thatched house was built as a chapel in April broke out while building a chapel. Asked to
1903, and missionary Luther Oliver McCutchen be evacuated, Evangelist Im refused to take
from Carolina, the U.S., served as the first pastor refuge, saying “Where would the shepherd go
in 1904. In Jenae Church, there are traces of leaving his sheep?” 7 days before the ceremony
martyrs. During the Korean War in 1950, elder of putting up the ridge beam of the church, he
Kim Sang-cheon and elder Kim Hyun-kyung was abducted by local communists who gained
were martyred and elder Hwang Hae-ju suffered strength through the Invasion from North Korea
bullet wounds. A monument to martyrs stands at of the Communist Party on July 10. He was
a martyr memorial to Evangelist Im Gwang-ho
the entrance of the church. martyred under Wolsan-ri Rock while preaching
Monument to Martyrs
the gospel to the communists.