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82 Nonsan Byeongchon
81 Ganggyeong Evangelical Holiness Church
Evangelical Holiness Church
40-1 Gyebaek-ro 219beon-gil, Ganggyeong-eup, Nonsan-si http://www.gangch.kr
475 Geumbaek-ro, Seongdong-myeon

“Byeongchon Evangelical Holiness Church”
-The faith of 66 people even unto death

The Byeongchon Evangelical Holiness
Church suffered during the Korean War.
The communist forces, which became
disadvantageous after landing of the UN
the monument to the first pioneers who refused to visit the shrine forces in Incheon, killed 66 people of
the 16 households of the Byeongchon
Ganggyeong Evangelical Holiness Church Church at once with a crowbar, shovels,
and clubs, and dug a hole in the ground
and buried them in.
“The shrine worship is an ignorant superstition, Even in such a disastrous situation,
and bowing to an idol is a great sin before Deaconess Jeong Su-il did not forsook
a memorial of 66 martyrs
God, so I will never bow.”
The cornerstone of Ganggyeong her faith and died while praying for
Evangelical Holiness Church her family and country, even when
11 people, including her parents-in-
Ganggyeong was a city that flourished enough to form the three major commercial districts
law, her three sons and one daughter,
along with Pyongyang and Daegu during the Joseon Dynasty. In 1902, the first postal
and a younger brother-in-law and
service office of Chungcheong-do was established in Ganggyeong and Ganggyeong was the
nephew, were killed at once. There is a
leading city where electricity was introduced first. Ganggyeong Evangelical Holiness Church
monument to the martyrs in the church
was established here in 1918. Evangelist Jeong Dalseong, who graduated from Gyeongseong
garden.
Bible School (currently Seoul Theological University) , came down to this place where the Methodist
Church was strong and started the Evangelical Holiness Church.
Four months after the church began, the March 1st Movement took place, and Rev. John
Thomas of the Oriental Missionary Society was beaten by Japanese police after coming
down to Ganggyeong. Rev. John Thomas left Korea because of the event, and the British
minister filed a lawsuit on his behalf and won. With the compensation received, the
Ganggyeong Evangelical Holiness Church was built. However, this chapel is currently
owned by Ganggyeong Bugok Methodist Church. Ganggyeong Evangelical Holiness Church
is famous for being the first church to refuse to worship the shrine. The reason why 57
Monument to the Martyrs of the
Sunday school students refused to attend the shrine was the teaching of Kim Bok-hee, Korean War
a Sunday school teacher and an elementary school teacher. In the chapel garden, there Nonsan Byeongchon Evangelical
Holiness Church
stands ‘the monument to first pioneers who refused to visit the shrine’.