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KOREAN PENTECOSTAL CHURCH REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR WCC 10TH ASSEMBLY

>For immediate release: 04 June 2010

The Rev. Dr Young-Hoon Lee, Senior Pastor of the Yoido Full Gospel
Church has reaffirmed his church's commitment to support the World  Council
of Churches (WCC) 10th Assembly, which will take place in Busan,  Korea, in
2013.

Meeting with the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit  at the
Edinburgh 2010 conference, Lee said the Yoido Full Gospel Church  is very
interested and keen to be involved with the upcoming WCC Assembly.  “The
WCC can expect to receive full support of the Pentecostal church  in Korea
for the 10th Assembly”, Lee told Tveit.

With about 830,000 members, the Yoido Full Gospel Church, located  in Seoul,
is considered the largest Pentecostal congregation in South Korea.  Lee
currently serves as its Senior Pastor and as the General Superintendent  of
the Assemblies of God in Korea, to which his church belongs. Through  its
membership in the National Council of Churches in Korea, the Assemblies  of
God have from the outset supported the choice of Korea as venue  for the
10th WCC Assembly.

“We are grateful for the prospect of a fruitful cooperation  of the Yoido
Full Gospel Church with our member churches in Korea around the  10th WCC
Assembly in Busan”, said Tveit. “The support of  the Yoido Full Gospel
Church highlights the significance of having a WCC Assembly in the  Korean
peninsula”, he added.

For Tveit, “the perspective of the Yoido Full Gospel Church  contributing
to the WCC Assembly opens up new possibilities for the call to work  for
Christian unity, even beyond the fellowship of WCC member churches” .

Both Lee and Tveit are participating in the 2-6 June Edinburgh 2010
conference, together with some 300 delegates from over 60 countries  and
virtually all Christian traditions. The event commemorates the historic
1910 World Mission Conference which took place in the Scottish capital
hundred years ago and seeks to provide new perspectives on Christian
mission for the 21st century.

The WCC supports the Edinburgh 2010 conference, together with partners  in
the ecumenical movement, within and beyond the WCC fellowship.

WCC member churches in Korea (Link:

http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=702e958654fae9e31fc0 )

Yoido Full Gospel Church (Link:

http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=46db0c60a47d79b37fa2 )

Edinburgh 2010 conference (Link: http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT= 
c37b112c2c47095a1c80 )

The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith,  witness and 
service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship  of churches 
founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 349 Protestant,
Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560  million 
Christians in over 110 countries, and works cooperatively with the  Roman 
Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Olav Fykse  Tveit, from 
the [Lutheran] Church of Norway. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.