The Good News Mission leads people to be forgiven of their sins and be born again so that they can live true spiritual life
  
"The Good News Mission inherited the spiritual tradition of the mission school which had been established through the grace of God in the city of Taegu in the early 1960s, by a few born again missionaries including Dick York, Kays Glass, Derik Earl, and Marlon Baker. After I was forgiven of my sins and born again in 1962, I entered the mission school and was trained there until I became a minister preaching the Gospel. As I was assured that I was trained spiritually and educated about the Bible according to true faith in the mission school, in 1976, I myself established a mission and its mission school, which continued in the missionaries' traditional ways of training by faith.
   In 1985, I began to give a 30 minutes sermon as the host of a radio program, "Good News", at the Asia Broadcasting Company. Since the number of listeners increased and "Good News" became popular, I became known as the host of "Good News", and that's why I named our mission the Good News Mission."
   Pastor Park, the leader of the Good News Mission and head- Pastor of the Hanbat Central Church in Taejon, says that God worked for us so mercifully that He organized the Good News Mission with the righteous deeds of the missionaries who came to Korea to preach the Gospel unto the dying souls. Currently, more than 200 ministers in Korea and 100 missionaries in the world are devoting themselves to preaching the Word of God as righteous shepherds for many spiritual wastelands all around the world.

Experience the secret of forgiveness of sins and being born again. When you have faith, God surely responds to your prayer.
  
Pastor Park himself was an ordinary Christian when he was a teenager. At the age of 19, he went to church every Sunday, but he was continually haunted by how much he lacked, and his heart was filled with disappointment about his spiritual life. At times in his life he felt as if there was something choking him to death. This caused him to pray and cry nearly everyday. He often stood up praying all through the night, but he never seemed to change. However, one day in 1962, everything changed as he came to receive the Holy Spirit of God deep into his heart. "As I denied myself and prayed, I realized that all my sins were forgiven by the grace of God. Jesus' blood cleansed my soul thoroughly as the hymn says 'my heart stained with sin darker than ink was washed to be clean whiter than snow'."
   The young Ock Soo Park was finally able to have rest within his troubled heart. Soon he entered the mission school started by the foreign missionaries, and was trained with much discipline so that one day he might become a minister to preach the Word of God. "God is the one who saved me. Salvation doesn't come from my own resolution or my own effort, not even one percent. Salvation is fulfilled solely by the work of God, and only by God! "
   After graduating from the mission school, Pastor Park enlisted in the Army as it is mandatory for all Korean male. After completing three years of the military service, he returned to the ministry in 1969 in the city of Kimchun, in the Kyungsang province. It was there that he again began to experienced the work of God. "When I needed a house, I prayed for it and God gave me 3.5 million won (approximately $3,500) through a foreign missionary.
   It was big money at that time when Korea was in economical difficulties. The name of the missionary was John Anderson, a native of England whom I happened to meet on the bus one day. He came to visit my place and to stay with me for a week and afterwards departed. Ten days later he returned and told me that he had prayed for us a lot, and that the money was God's response to his prayer." says Pastor Park with a grateful heart for God having helped him whenever he was in trouble. After he got married at Kimcheon in 1971, he moved to Taegu in 1973 and wholeheartedly began his ministry.
   He ministered in Taegu for 10 years, in Seoul since 1984; and in Taejon, since 1990 were he currently resides as the head- Pastor of the Hanbat Central Church.
 

A life of embracing the poor: Evangelizing to people in prisons and in leper villages.
  
   "My heart was really troubled when I was first invited to a leper colony as the Guest-speaker of an evangelical assembly. But as I prayed in the church three days before the assembly, I came across the words about when Jesus visited the house of Simon the leper. When I thought about the words, I could not wait to go to the leper colony. I went there right away, then ate and stayed with them, and preached to them the words of God. They welcomed me to their churches, so I preached the Gospel in more than 7 churches." Pastor Park says that he felt a sense of responsibility as a minister, seeing many people receiving salvation and changing into people who yearned to hear the word of God.
   As a prison evangelist, Pastor Park worked and prayed for the prisoners. It is said that many prisoners were born again through the words of forgiveness of sins, and changed to later become good members of society. Some of the prison officials suspected that he might have been a prisoner himself, considering he was very friendly to the prisoners, and even checked up on his background.

The Good News Mission Schools consist of about a hundred students across the world, and the students learn about spiritual life and faith with open hearts
  
   The mission schools of the Good News Mission train the students to become missionaries who evangelize to the world in an atmosphere where spiritual education is of greater importance than intellectual education.
   As for the school operation, Pastor Park says, "The students live in the mission school 24 hours a day with their families, and learn about faith. They receive everything they need through prayer without having a job. They receive the basic training for one year, and then only those who the gift of preaching the Gospel is revealed through are sent to the churches. They are trained there until they receive God's gifts and become a minister or a missionary. As the training coarse ends and if God's gifts are not manifested in them, they are released from the school to live as they did before they came.
   Among the graduates of the mission school, more than a hundred missionaries are preaching the Gospel in churches around the world. Countries in Europe, Oceania, North and South America, Africa, and Asia are currently having the words of life delivered to them by missionaries sent by the Good News Mission. Some of the churches are financially aided by Korean churches.
   Now, about 50 % of the churches are independent of the financial aid from Korea. From time to time, Pastor Park and other Pastors from Korea visit the churches abroad and hold evangelical assemblies to encourage the missionaries. In addition, the Good News Mission holds a international youth camp every other year with the youths from countries all over the world who are selected by the missionaries. The youths are trained to be faithful Christians so they can accept God into their hearts through the words of faith.

You cannot receive salvation by keeping the Sabbath; but when the faith enters your heart, you will be able to see the Lord
  
   Most people believe that they can receive the salvation by attending church on Sundays, offering tithes, and serving the church, but Pastor Park emphasized that when the faith comes to you, you will see the Lord and receive the salvation that is prepared for you. When he went to America few years ago, a sister asked him to take her troublemaking son to Korea and to teach him. Pastor Park guided him to have the faith of forgiveness of sins, and his parents appreciated it greatly.

   The boy's name was Andy, who was a typical problem child. As he lived with the students in the Mission School, the words changed him to live a spiritual life, and he even asked his divorced parents to live in faith. The son's dramatic change brought tears to his father's eyes. The faith of God truly changed the weak one into a new person in the bosom of God.
   "As the Holy Spirit works in us, Satan also tries to blind us. Satan always deceives us and makes us to focus on ourselves in order to accuse us as sinners. To be freed from Satan's snare, we must not focus on ourselves but on the Lord, Jesus Christ. If you doubt that Jesus has perfectly cleansed you, and make every effort to wash yourself from sins on your own, you will only find yourself being a Christian only in theory. You must have the faith that God accepts you only through Jesus, and that God already forgave you when Jesus was persecuted, crucified, and shed his blood on the cross." You can learn more about Pastor Park's sermons in his book, Secret of Forgiveness and Being Born Again, of which more than a million copies have been sold.
   The book has also been translated in 10 different languages including English, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. It has moved many people's hearts here at home and also abroad.

Accomplishing globalization of the Gospel through the Internet broadcasting Online chatting with the missionaries abroad.
  
   The headquarters of the Good News Mission recently has developed and created their own Internet broadcasting system and recording studio. The Sunday morning services held at the Hanbat Central Church have been broadcasted live on the Internet. The services are simultaneously interpreted into Chinese, so the missionaries and the brothers and sisters in China can watch the service live. The mission homepage has been made in English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Russian. The homepage also provides Pastor Park's recorded sermons, which are televised in Los Angeles and New York.
   The Good News Mission has operated its homepage since 1998, and began broadcasting over the Internet in February 2000. Now, the Good News Mission has become an international organization that devotes itself to evangelizing all over the world.
   Pastor Park says he always looks forward to 10 PM every Saturday when he begins the Internet chatting with the missionaries all over the world. Through the Internet chatting, he receives news from different places in the world, and it is much livelier than through any other broadcasting. He is also preparing to establish mission broadcasting centers in Argentina, Kenya, and Ghana, where the missionaries and those trained under them will be used to aid and also be announcers for the mission broadcasting.

Korean women's hearts are the best in the world. It will be a bigger blessing if they can live in faith.

Pastor Park says he truly respects Korean women. The aspect of beauty that they hold is the one they inherited by Oriental tradition in that they are very obedient and many times disregard themselves and protect the family and children even in dangerous situations. Pastor Park says, "Because those who have faith in the Lord, believe that God protects them from all sufferings, fears and worries that come from the heart, they can overcome the difficulties through faith. We could say that the families who have these women of faith are truly blessed. Because mothers who have God in their hearts bring more comforts and happiness, if all Korean women could have this kind of faith, our nation would truly be beautiful and blessed."
   He proposes, "when any women contact the Good News Mission because they are going through difficulties and hardship, we will preach the word of the Bible anytime. Pastor Park was born in Sunsan, South Kyungsang providence and preached the gospel for forty years regardless of denominations. I believe that Myoung Soon Kim, Pastor Parks wife, who has continuously supported quietly behind with faith, was a huge strength to the ministry of Pastor Park. In 2001, in the first year of millennium, we expect that the Good News Mission, Hanbat Central Church, and Pastor Park's word of the gospel of forgiveness of sins, will continue to be delivered all around the world in faith.

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