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[YONSEI NEWS] Missionary Kim Jong-yang and Lee In-eung Awarded The 9th Underwood Missionary Prize

연세대학교 홍보팀 / news@yonsei.ac.kr
2009-11-09

Missionaries in Swaziland and Guinea Bissau Kim Jong-yang, a missionary in Swaziland, and Lee In-eung, a missionary in Guinea Bissau, were awarded the 9th Underwood Missionary Prize. The prize was established in 2001 by Yonsei University to encourage passionate missionaries who work in the back regions. The award ceremony and celebratory lecture were held on October 12 in Luce Chapel at Yonsei. Kim Jong-yang is a missionary of the 'Assemblies of God.' He was sent to Swaziland in 1985, and has been serving the people thereafter through various missionary activities such as opening new churches and missionary works through education, theological education, medical service, missionary farm and orphanage. His activities helped the development of the region and training of Christian people. During his 24 years service in Swaziland, he first started concentrating on opening new churches, and opened about 400 churches so far. Kim also established 'Immanuel Theological School' and 'Immanuel Prayer Mountain' to educate native leaders and spiritually nurture them. Established in 1999, the theological school produced about 50 graduates until 2006. The graduates of the school are being nurtured as important Christian leaders in Swaziland. Kim also established an AIDS orphanage in 2003 to solve the problem of AIDS and orphans in Africa. Lee In-eung is a missionary of the Presbyterian Church of Korea who have been working for 20 years in Guinea Bissau in West Africa since 1989 with his wife, missionary Lee Soon-hwan. Since 1992, he belonged to African Cultural Mission and opened Bairro Militar Church and Mansaba Church Bairro. He educated 350 students in 7 church schools. From December 1995, he served as a missionary of Global Mission Society of the Presbyterian Church of Korea in Seongnam Church in Jinju City. In 1998, he visited Guinea Bissau when the civil war in the country became intense and decided to dedicate himself to the churches there. Missionary Lee also witnessed the death of his daughter while he was doing missionary works. In 2004, his daughter was attacked by a burglar on taxi in Dakar, Senegal, while she was studying in university. After his daughter's death, Lee held an exhibition on 'African People' in memory of his daughter and to help other missionaries in Africa who experience difficulties in educating their children.