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Lecture by Joseph Ahn

UBF History of Seoul Pioneering  
(March 1966 – June 1977)

BIBLE KOREA, WORLD MISSION
                                                    
Key verse: Acts 19:20
“In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power”

Last year Shepherd Joshua Lee’s lecture explored what ignited UBF history, covering the period 1961 to 1965. Today’s presentation covers the period of Seoul pioneering marked by Mother Barry leaving for Seoul in 1966 and Dr. Samuel Lee leaving for USA in 1977. It was during this critical decade that God strategically pioneered Seoul campuses. With the capital of Korea pioneered, the rest of Korea was inevitably pioneered by the gospel. Ultimately God transformed the groans of a broken nation into shouts of “Bible Korea, World mission.”  

First, Mother Barry’s English Bible study.

The first place of Seoul pioneering was located on the 2nd Floor of the Yellow Building on 25 Hyojae-dong street. It was near the SNU College of Law, College of Arts and Science, and the College of Medicine. In March 1966 God sent Mother Barry to Seoul. She began what we now know as “fishing” by distributing flyers that read, “Come and See!” Free English Bible Study. Lecturer, Missionary Sarah Barry from the USA.” As Korean students were very eager to learn English, you can guess how popular Mother Barry’s class became. She conducted this English Bible Study from 8 to 9 every morning for 11 years until she left for the United States. Mother Barry’s English Bible study gave the light of life to many SNU students.

Shepherd Paul Rhee was attending Suhdaemoon Church and happened to listen to a sermon delivered by Mother Barry. He was greatly moved to hear Mother Barry speak a perfect Korean with a Mississippi accent. Like Jesus’ first disciples, he asked her, “Teacher, where are you staying?” and came to the 2nd floor of the yellow building. He then brought his hometown friend, Mark Yang to English Bible study.

Dr. James Kim, a medical student at SNU, along with Dr. Yoonsook Choi, Dr. Sarah Kim, Dr. Joy Rhee of Korea University, all heard Mother Barry teach English Bible at their medical club, called MCA. They followed her to UBF and studied the Bible. In this way almost all SNU students came to Mother Barry’s English Bible class at least one time during that period.

Mother Barry lived in a manger-like house heated by coal. She ate kimchi and soybean sediment soup. She would welcome anyone who visited her, listen to their talking and serve them that famous coffee of hers. Her humble and sacrificial life moved such proud SNU students. Dr. Mark Yoon’s heart was completely melted when Mother Barry made him a Kimchi sandwich. He claims that he never tasted something more in his whole life. So many students were touched when they heard how this Southern belle gave up all her privileges and even marriage in order to serve poor Koreans as their shepherd and prayer mother.

Second, Dr. Lee’s intensive personal Bible study.

As the work of God expanded, Dr. Lee studied the Bible more intensively. He understood that most church going Koreans were Sunday Christians. They didn’t practice and obey the word of God in their day to day lives. So in March 1968, Dr. Lee began to write the Daily Bread. It would help students to start each day with the word of God and struggle to obey it on a daily basis. Dr. Lee wrote the Daily Bread book from 8 a.m. to 12 noon every day for 9 years. No matter what might happen, he never missed writing the Daily Bread. His soul was filled with the word of God and he burst to sing hymn 353, “The grace which my Lord Jesus gave me is immeasurable, yet I gave nothing to my Lord, Oh, Lord, accept my life as my offering.”

There was one significant event surrounding the writing of Daily Bread. Dr. Lee was secretly planning to give up his heavy responsibility in UBF to a successor. This idea changed with a fire that broke out in January of 1971. He burned all the nerves on his face and hands. He was hospitalized and placed in a cast that had him postured with both arms and legs up in the air in a totally surrendering position for weeks. Dr. Lee accepted this as God’s training. He repented and surrendered his entire life to God as a campus Bible teacher. God miraculously restored his two damaged hands to continue to write the Daily Bread. Since then Dr. Lee disciplined us to write the Daily Bread and pray based on the word of God through two by two, fellowship by fellowship and even the honey moon couple’s daily bread sharing. One medical student never missed writing Daily Bread during his 4 years of medical school. As a result, his daily bread notebooks surpassed the pages of his medical notebooks. Those who were trained to do Daily Bread faithfully survived all kind of trials and became seasoned servants of God.
  
Along with the Daily Bread, Dr. Lee also made many Bible teaching materials. They were products of his love of word of God as well as of his broken shepherd heart. At that time there were so many students’ street demonstrations against military government. The campuses were closed so often and for so long time. The students were wandering in despair. Dr. Lee could not do anything. But he found the solution in Bible study. In that dark time Dr. Lee concentrated to study the word of God. The classic 7 lectures of Genesis came out in that time. Dr. Lee used the most difficult time not only to dedicate himself to study the bible but also to let the students study the word of God. As a result many students could study the Bible more than their school studies.

In the spring of 1972, there was a particular Bible school. That year was “Kim Ill Sung’s 60th birthday.” Everybody was frightened of a rumor that he would celebrate it in Seoul. Dr. Lee opened the Isaiah Bible School with the title, “The Almighty God” to drive out fear from their hearts. He was dressed in traditional Korean clothes and hat as his expression of love for his country. The police attended the Bible school, just in case the students were zealous demonstrators against the military government. Among the policemen who watched over the meeting, one was moved by Dr. Lee’s lectures. He then defended and protected the gathering. In this way the wonderful Isaiah Bible lectures were produced.

In 1973 Dr. Lee went over to Germany to help German ministry. The German director and nurse missionaries did not welcome him out of their own sorrowful marriage problems. Dr. Lee stayed there to help them for three months sleeping in the railroad station eating German Sausages every day. He could not do anything. But he went back to the Bible and studied 1 Corinthians chapter 15 with all his heart. Thus the three masterpieces about the resurrection of Jesus were made in that hard time. At that time he also studied John 1:4 to solve their life problem. They became old maids in a foreign land. But they could not go back to Korea to solve their marriage problem. They were under heavy burden of supporting their parents and siblings in Korea. Dr. Lee studied and taught John 1:4 “In him was life and the life was the light of man.” This one word enlightened their soul to entrust all their life problems to Jesus including that of their families.

Since then life testimony writing began as symposiums titled “My precious Life.” It spread to all UBF around the world. We could all entrust our lives to God’s hands as well as those or our children and families. This became the foundation of bible testimonies and life testimonies today.

In 1976 some senior staff shepherds could not bear the strict message trainings and stood against Dr. Lee. Dr. Lee had a great heartache because of that incident. However he did not fight with the difficult situations. Instead he went back to intensive Bible study. From this, the excellent Mark’s gospel lectures came out.

In this way he wrote many Bible lectures one by one, such as Exodus, 1 and 11 Samuel, John’s gospel, Romans, Acts, and Epistles in season and out of season. Dr. Lee’s bible loving and his intensive Bible study were indeed the foundation of Bible Korea and world mission.

Meanwhile Dr. Lee constantly invented new and creative Bible study methods to plant the word of God in UBF leaders. These included Bible schools, Bible conferences, testimony symposiums, Bible memorization, fact oriented Bible research, Sunday messages and testimonies dictation, paraphrasing of epistles, and life testimonies. His methods of Bible teaching were so creative and diverse that we cannot discuss them all.

In Seoul pioneering, Missionary Grace A. Lee’s role was so great. She made all the environments prayerfully for Dr. Lee to concentrate on his Sunday message preparation. She controlled people’s visiting and calling on weekends so they may not hinder his message preparation. Dr. Lee’s total devotion to Bible study was possible because of Missionary Grace A. Lee’s sacrificial commitment to spiritual environment.

Third, Dr. Lee’s discipleship training.

Remember that our Lord Jesus concentrated on discipleship training despite his busy life serving crowds. Discipleship ministry is the flower of the gospel ministry. Dr. Samuel Lee imitated Jesus’ discipleship ministry. He didn’t want mass evangelism, but gave his heart instead to raising a few dedicated disciples of Jesus.

Dr. Lee was like a shepherd who helped each of his sheep in a different way. Sometimes he was like a gentle and delicate mother, and other times he was like a strict father. He loved each student personally as if he or she were the only person in the world.

For instance, in my sophomore of SNU Law School in 1966, I was in deep despair after many street demonstrations in freshman year. When I took a flyer in the street written,” Come and see,” I came to UBF and studied English Bible for one year. But when I got the telegram about my father’s pass away by car accident, I fell in nihilism again and disappeared for a while. Then Dr. Lee sent Missionary Esther Chung until she found me. Dr. Lee invited me to his house to feed me for 6 months. Missionary Grace A. Lee washed all my dirty socks and clothes when there was no washing machine. When I failed the diplomat exam, Dr. Lee trained me to write Daily Bread in order to increase writing skill. Because of this I could pass the exam. When I finished the army, Dr. Lee introduced me Maria Ahn for marriage. Humanly speaking, it was impossible, because I was a homeless orphan and she was a first daughter of the chief judge. Her mother was reluctant to give her, excusing that I was so poor and skinny like chopsticks. But Dr. Lee defended, saying, “If his clothes were taken off, we can see his strong muscles on his belly.” In this way, marriage was possible. Dr. Lee helped each person to the end until his life problems were solved and he or she could grow as a useful servant of God. Dr. Lee was a good shepherd of each person one at a time.
  
From the fall of 1968, fellowship meetings began. Dr. Lee noticed that Seoul was different from the other provinces, and SNU students were so intellectual and individualistic that they liked to write and to speak what was written. So he established fellowship meetings appointing a leader, a coworker and students to serve each fellowship voluntarily. The fellowship leader delivered the message prior to the meeting and all students shared their Daily Bread every week.  The fellowship meetings contributed a lot to raise spiritual leaders.

Dr. Lee also put great effort in raising Bible teachers. At that time, it was unacceptable for ordinary people to teach the Bible or deliver sermons. But Dr. Lee gave all his heart in raising students into lay bible teachers. One professor rebuked a student saying, “How dare you teach the Bible!  I am a theology professor and even I don’t dare teach the Bible” However, the students kept on teaching the Bible, because they had faith in God’s word.  

One to one Bible studies emerged in 1969 and became the foundation of UBF disciple-raising ministry. The students even started teaching the Bible after one lesson with great confidence. When the students did not accept their teaching they rebuked them with great authority. For instance, Dr. James Kim was helping Dr. James Suh through one to one Bible study in a lecture room of SNU Medical School. Suddenly Dr. Suh told him that he was going to quit his Bible study because of the heavy burden of medical studies. Then, Dr. Kim rebuked him, saying, “You are a man who has no sense of history.” Dr. Suh accepted the rebuke humbly and continued one to one Bible study. He would later become a fruitful shepherd for medical students and a leading elder in the board of Korean UBF. This kind of impassioned one to one Bible study took place on every campus, beginning with SNU Medical School and Korea Medical School. In this way the word of God gained power and spread mightily to pioneer all SNU campuses.

Dr. Lee also trained many staff shepherds. His prayer topic was for each staff shepherd to be a great servant of God’s word and a good shepherd for his flock. The training had a military motif and was vivacious and rigorous like boot camp. In order to wage spiritual warfare, Dr. Lee dressed like a sergeant. He gave staff shepherds high level training so that each could become spiritual generals. Once Dr. Lee had all the staff shepherds bring their entire year’s worth of Daily Bread and Acts Bible study. He weighed them and published the scores in the UBF newspaper. Those who belonged to the highest rank were awarded a scholarship. Those who were negligent were sent walking to Soowon. (the origin of Skokie training) Another memorable activity was called the “Looking at the morning stars movement.” It was during the study of 1 and 2 Chronicles. The two books were divided into major and minor titles. The names of all the kings memorized along with the years they reigned. The staff shepherd took a test each following morning at 5 AM. Thus it was rightly called, the “Looking at the morning stars movement.”

Among all the staff shepherds, Shepherd Joshua Lee, Moses Kim and Mark Yang received the most training. Shepherd Joshua Lee did not accept the word of God. In fact, God’s word bounced off him. Since he rejected God’s word like a bouncing ball, he received ‘ball bouncing’ training. He had to run around the gym grounds, shouting, “Do not bounce! Accept the word of God!” To break off his strong ego and pride, he also received another training. His training was to shave his head like Yul Brynner and walk around with wearing shorts and red stockings. He frightened schoolgirls when he walked down the street with his Bible at his side. Through such training, he was remolded into a man of humility and obedience. He revived Kwangju UBF greatly and became a great servant of God.  

Shepherd Mark Yang served Sunday worship service as a door-keeper. He also had to clean the toilets and do all kinds of the menial jobs. He did this for over 10 years. He was weak and unhealthy like a sick-chick, because he grew up as the only son of a widow. But through 10 years’ training, he became a strong and independent warrior of faith.  When Dr. Lee moved to the USA, he was appointed as the director of the Bible study committee. In order to overseer this work, he slept 4 hours a day for 3 years so that he could engage in intensive Bible study. As a result of his sincere Bible study, his ministry grew and reached 500 SWS attendants. He became the best messenger trainer and trained all the intern shepherds as well as staff group Bible study.

1960-1970 was largely dominated by Confucianism. It was a male dominated society with no place for women. But it was amazing that Dr. Lee treated the Christian sisters preciously like princesses. It was amazing that several women were raised as full time staff shepherds. Missionary Maria Ahn was severely persecuted and violently beaten by her chief judge father for her faith. But Dr. Lee helped her to overcome persecution by relying on God and not on him. Through this, she was changed into a most bold and sacrificial woman of God. She really wanted to be a staff shepherd. Dr. Lee had no intention to raise women staff shepherds. However, Maria Ahn was determined. Dr. Lee asked her to pioneer Chongro Graduate Fellowship. God worked mightily and the Graduate Fellowship became the largest fellowship. It took over the financial support of UBF. It also became the headquarters for missionary training. The Graduate Fellowship grew larger and larger. Then Shepherdess Sarah Kim followed pioneering Chongro 3rd graduate Chapter as a staff shepherd and established Yonhee UBF together with Shepherd David Kim. Shepherdess Anna Yang also pioneered Chongro 4th Graduate Chapter and established Anam UBF together with Shepherd Mark Yang. For Shepherdess Sarah Kim, it was not easy to devote her life to God as an art student of SNU, who was pretty, romantic and multi-talented. But she served God wholeheartedly day and night and became a fruitful staff shepherd. When Shepherd David Kim came back from the Vietnam War as a warrior of faith, Dr. Lee introduced Sarah Kim for marriage, saying, “It is a custom to give a princess to a warrior.” Shepherdess Anna Yang was fatalistic because she was born as a 2nd daughter instead of a son but she overcame her fatalism by Genesis 1:31, ”It was very good.”  She was also sorrowful and fatalistic when she tried to receive human love and recognition from Dr. Lee comparing herself with Maria Ahn and Sarah Kim.  But she overcame her sorrow and fatalism when she made a decision to serve others instead of being served based on Mark 10:45.  She became a great woman of God.  Once Dr. Lee said, “I never imagined that Mark Yang would be changed but he is now changed because of Anna Yang.”

Missionary training focused on developing the responsibility over one national chapter for future mission work. Thus, missionary candidates received a variety of basic and spiritual training. Brothers received Daily Bread training and English training. They also practiced Taekwondo and boxing. They often had boxing competitions in front of the sisters to increase their fighting spirit. They fought fiercely until their noses bled. Those who received this kind of strong training became fruitful missionaries and precious remnants. Dr. Paul Hong remains as a remnant of old Suhdaemoon UBF, Wesley Yoon from the old Dongdaemoon UBF, Jacob Lee from old Kyungheemoon and Isaac Kim in Akron as a remnant from Myungryun UBF.  

During Seoul pioneering, one unforgettable event was when we offered a relief offering for the people of Bangladesh, where one million people were killed due to floods. In February 1971, we had a big ceremony to offer one million won to Dr. Nelson, the chairman of World Vision institute. It was a great inspiration to all attendants that Koreans who had always received aid from the USA offered money to American Institute. Through this, we had faith that from now on, poor Koreans could help Americans not only through the gospel, but also financially.
        
Fourth, Dr. Lee’s absolute obedience to the World Mission command.
        
Whenever we finished the gospel, we encountered Jesus’ world mission command, “Go into the whole world and preach the gospel to all creation.” Dr. Samuel Lee was burning with world mission vision. Thus he planted this vision in the hearts of students. He had them spin a globe, shouting, “The world is our bread! The world is our bread!”  We visited the airport for worship service almost every week. Whenever the worship service was over, we held hands, shouting, “Bible Korea, World Mission, Enlarge the place of your tent.” This became the UBF motto.

However, ideals and reality were on quite different continents. The reality was that no one could easily get a passport besides diplomats and government officials. Korea was so poor that the thought of sending a missionary was unimaginable. All Koreans firmly believed that Korea was entitled to receive missionaries. At that time it was largely presumed that only blond and blue-eyed Americans could become missionaries. People used to think that professionally trained pastors who received abundant financial support could become missionaries. So many people cast ridicule on Dr. Lee. However, Dr. Lee ignored people’s mockery. He absolutely put his trust in the word of God and tried to obey the supreme command of Jesus with an absolute attitude.    

He and UBF members continued to pray for Southeast Asia for 8 years. In March 1969, we finally sent out one missionary to Singapore. However, when he accepted a scholarship to Germany, he left UBF without even saying good-bye. We were so disappointed. However, God turned the direction from Southeast Asia to the superpower nations such as Germany and the USA. In July 1969, there were some nurses who were sent out to West Germany as laborers. Dr. Lee went to the airport, enlisted the 3 nurses, taught them the Bible and German language for one week and commissioned them to be the UBF first missionaries to West Germany. However, German ministry officially began after 3 months, when 6 missionaries were trained and sent out to West Germany. Among them, Sarah Kihyang Lee vowed to bury her bones in Germany. Later she married Pastor Abraham Lee, who became the director of German UBF. Humanly speaking, to grab 3 nurses and send them out as missionaries was as ridiculous as Andrew’s five loaves and 2 fish for a crowd of 5000. But God was pleased with Dr. Lee’s 5 loaves and 2 fish. Later, he blessed UBF to send out 1,247 missionaries to 77 countries. It was a miracle in world mission history.    

USA pioneering began from November 1970, when NMC nurses, Sarah Kim(Jooim Koh), Myungsoon Huh and Chungsook Park were sent out to New York. Sarah Kim established a first missionary family with Paul Kim and then, Paul Kim became the first director of New York.

In 1973, we had the historical Summer Bible Conference at Mengbang held on the East Coast. The most unforgettable event was to have united prayer on the beach for 145 nations. All the attendants were divided into 5 by 5 groups, lining several hundreds of meters along the East Coast. They knelt their heads on the sand, lifting their buttocks in the air and began to pray. Each person called each nation with its capital city, holding 10 pages of print material. Someone called a country with the wrong line of the capital city and then, every line of the capital cities became wrong. Then here and there people began to giggle and someone said, “God also was giggling”.  

Meanwhile Dr. Lee continued to train several senior shepherds. However, they did not want to receive any more training. They acted in rebellion against him. Dr. Lee did not fight them. Instead, he simply focused on the word of God and wrote lectures on Mark’s gospel wholeheartedly. Through this event, God made UBF stronger and opened a new era for world mission. In fact God turned a time of adversity into fruitful victory. On June 13, 1977, Dr. Lee finally left for the USA as a missionary. This was the greatest event in USA and world mission. Humanly speaking, there was no reason for Dr. Lee to move out to the USA, because his heart was deeply attached to Bible Korea. He wanted to do world mission; yet he was reluctant to go out by himself to the front line. But through this incident, God pushed him away to be sent out to the USA in order to fulfill his glorious purpose for America to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

In 1991 Dr. Lee was appointed an honorary Ph.D in literature from his Alma Mater, JunJu University. The Korean Government recognized him with high honor as well. They recognized his lifelong devotion to the development of Korea and Korean churches. His ministry among young intellectuals took place in a critical era of national turmoil. This honor was his victory, our victory and God’s victory.

When we review 10 years’ history of UBF Seoul Pioneering, we cannot but conclude that God alone begot this life giving history for Korea and for all nations of the world in our generation. God sent Jesus to die on the cross and be raised from the dead in order to begin world salvation work according to his promise. God sent his Holy Spirit to begin the early Christian history in Acts of the Apostles. It was the work of God and of his Son and of the Holy Spirit. When the Apostles obeyed the word of God absolutely, God worked mightily through them and turned Satan’s work into his victory. In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power in the early Christian history.

In the same way, it was God who worked in Seoul pioneering. In short, UBF history of Seoul pioneering was the history of the word of God. It was God who began his history in Korea through one person who loved his word with all his heart, soul and strength. It was also God who guided the history step by step. Dr. Lee did not plan in detail. But he firmly relied on the guidance of the Holy Spirit. God used Dr. Lee, who loved and obeyed absolutely and studied the Bible intensively, especially when adversity arose. In a time of adversity, Dr. Lee never engaged in human struggle, but engaged in struggle with the word of God until God turned adversity into fruitful victory. God also used Dr. Lee’s shepherd heart for young people until they could also obey his word absolutely. God used Dr. Lee’s intensive personal Bible study and Mother Barry’s English study to lay the firm foundation for Bible Korea and World Mission. Praise God who performed the miraculous work of God in Seoul pioneering through deep Bible study of Dr. Samuel Lee and Mother Barry. Our God was, is and will be forever. The same God will surely enable us to make North America a kingdom of priests and a holy nation in our generation. Amen.