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68 Gongju Baptist Church
67 Yeongmyeong Missionary House and grave
(current The Church of Dream)
9-1 Junghak-dong, Gongju-si1
2148-5 Baekjemunhwa-ro, Gongju http://www.cod.or.kr

The Church of Dream
It is located in a sunny place on the
While serving as the principal of
back of Yeongmyeong Middle and High
Yeongmyeong School until he was
School in Junghak-dong, Gongju-si,
forcibly deported to Japanese colonial
and it was the home of Robert Arthur “The beginning of a new
era, Missionary William cultivated the
Sharp from the U.S. Methodist Church, future with a missionary
national spirit of the students with
built during the Japanese colonial era. multi-church”
the school motto of 'Let's cultivate
It is said that missionary Sharp married
patriots who devote themselves to the
Alice Hammond in 1905, a member of a cornerstone
country and the people.' Hoping for
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
the liberation of Korea, he named his
the Methodist Episcopal Church, came
son Gwangbok.
down to Gongju, and the house was
The Entrance of the Church Gongju Baptist Church
built in November 1921 by a Chinese of Dream Memorial Hall
engineer as the first brick house newly
built on the site of an existing small Gongju Baptist Church was established in 1896. The Ella Thing Memorial Mission, a
thatched house. missionary organization affiliated with the U.S. Baptist Church, sent Missionary E.C. Pauling
Although it is a residential building to Korea in 1895. He took a boat through the west coast, went back to the Geumgang River,
that is common in urban areas in the and arrived in Gongju, the location of the South Chungcheong Provincial Government at
United States, it is a Western-style house the time. Even though he worked for mission for 5 years, he failed to produce great results
that is not common in Korea and has and the funds for missionary work ran out, so he went back to his country. In 1896, the
the graves of missionary Frank Williams' son
historical value as a modern building, Woo Gwangbok and his sister Olive Steadman missionary couple, Ackles, and Elmer were sent to Korea and they established
so it is designated as a registered Gongju Baptist Church.
cultural property No. 233. From the The missionary service in Gongju was handed over to missionary Fenwick. Missionary
beginning of the 20th century to the Fenwick came to Korea in 1889, learned the Korean language in Seoul, and worked in
present, the building has been the Sorae, Hwanghae-do. At that time, Missionary Fenwick was working as an independent
place where missionaries carried out missionary. He went back to Canada in 1893 and was ordained by the Baptist Church, and
missionary work in Gongju and it is also returned to Korea in 1896 to do missionary work in Wonsan. In 1900, missionary Fenwick
a symbolic place where Yeongmyeong was appointed to Gongju Church with Shin Myung-gu, who was preaching with him in
School began its education. There are Wonsan. He organized a Bible academy in Gongju Church and began to cultivate talents.
the graves of six to seven missionaries, The Bible academy taught how to grow fruit trees and civil engineering techniques. It was
including Missionary George Z. to enable self-supporting evangelism. Graduates of the Bible academy scattered across
William (Korean name: Woo Gwangbok) , the the country began to preach and establish 31 churches. In 1906, Fenwick gathered these
son of Missionary Frank William, and churches and established the denomination “Korea Christian Church.” The organization
his sister Olive. changed its name to Dong-A Christianity later and to the Korea Baptist Convention after
liberation. Gongju Baptist Church served as the root of the Baptist Church. Gongju Baptist
the old missionary house in Junghak-dong, Gongju Church was closed again in 1940 because it refused to attend the shrine.