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65 Gongju Jeil Methodist Church
Middle and High School
18 Jemin 1-gil, Gongju-si
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Gongju Jeil Church is a Methodist church in Gongju, which was established by W. C. The first time the seeds of the gospel were
Swearer after being appointed as a missionary in charge of south of Seoul in 1898. The U.S. sown in Gongju was 1903. The establishment
Methodist Episcopal Church purchased a house in front of the Gongju provincial office of the Gongju-eup Church (currently Gongju Jeil
in 1902 and sent missionary Kim Dong-hyun to the church. On July 1, 1903, William B. Church) by medical missionary W. B. McGill and
McGill, a doctor and U.S. North Methodist Episcopal Church missionary, arrived in Gongju evangelist Lee Yong-joo was the starting point.
and purchased two thatch buildings in Hari-dong (now near the west of Angsan Park) in Gongju- The following year, the Korean Methodist
eup with evangelist Lee Yong-joo, and it became the actual birthplace of Gongju Jeil Church combined Northern Chungcheong area
Church. centered on Gongju and Jincheon and Cheongju
In 1906, missionary William established Yeongmyeong School, the predecessor of area into a single conference, and R. A. Sharp,
Yeongmyeong High School, and taught many believers, which became the birth of a missionary who came to Korea only a year ago, Gongju Yeongmyeong
Yeongmyeong High School with 100 years of tradition today. The building of Gongju Jeil was assigned to it. His wife was Alice J. Hammod, High School
Centennial Memorial
Church was built in 1930 and was classified as an enemy property during wartime in 1941, a missionary who came to Korea two years before Tower of the school
and the access of church members was restricted, but it was destroyed by bombing during him and was preaching the gospel. The couple lived
the Korean War and rebuilt in 1956. in Seoul and spent a year touring the Chungcheong
provinces. Mrs. Sharp who thought that education “It is a historic private high
projects would be effective in preaching the gospel school with 117 years of history
“It is the first Methodist church to be established in the Gongju area.”
in Gongju, where conservative culture prevailed at and is a Protestant (Methodist)
the time, did her best to establish the Yeongmyeong mission school that produced
Girls' School. public figures such as Dr.
F. E. C. Williams, a missionary sent to Gongju after Chough Pyung-ok and Martyr
Missionary Sharp, established Yeongmyeong School Yu Gwan-sun.”
on Mrs. Sharp's foundation and began running the
school. Yeongmyeong School focused on producing
rural leaders while operating practical programs
for rural churches. For this, Yeongmyeong School
changed its name to Yeongmyeongsilsu (永明實修)
Gonju Jeil Church
School. Yeongmyeong School, which had been
operated as Yeongmyeongsilsu School since April
1932, was forcibly closed by the Japanese colonial
rule in 1941 and reopened as Yeongmyeong Middle The Birthplace of
New Education
and High School in 1951 and has reached the
present day. Yu Gwan-sun, a Korean independence
A memorial to Missionary
activist, her brother Yu Woo-seok, Dr. Chough Sharp, who became a role
Gongju Christian Social Welfare Center Pyung-ok, and Im Yeong-sin, the founder of Chung- model for martyr Yu Gwan-
Gongju Jeil Church (Christian Museum) Ang University, are from Yeongmyeong School. soon