Ock Soo Park

Park Ock-Soo or Ock Soo Park (1944 ~) is the founder of Good News Mission. He is currently the head pastor of the Good News Gangnam Church and is the advisor to the IYF.

• 1944 – Born in Seonsan in the North Kyongsan Province, South Korea

• 1962 – Studied at the Shield of Faith Mission School Founded by Dick York

• 1972 – Founded the Good News Mission

• 1976 – Founded Korean Gospel Missionary School (currently, Mahanaim Theology School)

• 1988 – 1993 Activities as the member of the Criminal Reform Committee at the Suwon Prison and Daejeon Prison

• 2001 – Founded International Youth Fellowship Inc.

• 2004 – Selected as the Excellent Education Lecturer at the Army Headquarters

• 2004 – Founded the Lincoln House Alternative School

• 2006 – Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from Mongol State University

• 2008 – Founded the Gracias Music School (Daejeon)

• 2009 – Invited by the Communist Youth League of China to provide ‘Mind Lecture for the Youth

• 2010 – Founded the Mahanaim Bible Training Center

• 2014 – Head Pastor of the Good News Gangnam Church (Seocho, Yangjae), Chief Advisor to the IYF

Activities in South Korea

Bible Seminars in main cities, outreach in prisons, military bases, Mahanaim Cyber Theology School is the emphasized business. The Army Headquarters selected Pastor Ock Soo Park as an Excellent Education Lecturer. The main city Bible Seminars began with the Mugunghwa Hall located in Yeonjaegu, Busan in 1986. For the past 28 years, he has been preaching at seminar tours with titles such as ‘Forgiveness of Sin’ and ‘Life as a Christian.’ Also, he has founded the Gracias Music School and is managing it to cultivate musical talents. The Good News Mission also hosts "World Education Leaders Forums" with the city of Busan where chancellors and presidents of universities from around the world come together to discuss solutions to modern social problems with the youth

International Youth Fellowship

In 1995, a Korean-American young person was brought to South Korea and reformed. This served as an opportunity to found the International Youth Fellowship Incorporation (IYF). Since 2002, volunteers were dispatched overseas for Field Experience Learning. The overseas volunteering program was renamed as the Good News Corps in 2005 and has become an active volunteering program. Volunteers are given a designated training which is based on the Christian Mindset. Then they are sent to participating countries where they engage in mission work, free education, cultural exchange for their respective countries and its people for 11 months. Through this they grow global leadership, strong heart and humility. The number of Good News Corps volunteers increased from 11 (in 2001) to 600 (in 2008) to over 70 different countries. The Korean press claimed that IYF is cultivating civilian diplomats. IYF is operating an alternative school known as the Lincoln House School in Bucheon, East Seoul and 10 different cities of South Korea and they also host cultural events such as English Camp, English Speech Contest and World Culture Expos.

Activities outside of South Korea

He is the guest speaker at IYF World Camps, which are annually hosted in 30+ different nations, as well as Bible Crusades hosted in Manhattan, New York. Pastor Park’s sermon was featured in English on the LA Times and the New York Times (from 2006). Also, through Russian TBN broadcasting station his ‘Lectures on the book of Matthew’ are regularly broadcast in over 180 different countries. His Sunday sermons are translated real time in English, Chinese, and Spanish as it is broadcast live to 60 different countries. Also, in Kenya, Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting is happening through the Good News Broadcasting System (GBS) which was the very first broadcasting station set up by a foreigner in Kenya. It has not only been broadcasting sermons but spreading Korean culture. GBS won the special prize in 2010 in the KBS World Korean Broadcasting Awards sponsored by the Korean Foundation for press.

• 2004 : Awarded the Grand Prize by the Herald Business in the field of True Man of Faith 'Grand Prize for Future Administration of South Korea'

• 2005 : Awarded the Grand Prize by the Korean Journalist Forum in the field of International Exchange ‘2005 Grand Prize Contribution to Public Welfare in South Korea’

• 2005 : Korea Daily '2005 Grand Prize for New Korean'

• 2015 : Medal of Distinguished Service in Benin

• 《Navigating the Heart: Who Is Dragging You》

• 《The Secret of Forgiveness of Sin and Being Born Again》: “The greatest gift God has given us is the forgiveness of sin.” 1,500,000 copies published, translated into 14 languages

• 《Repentance and Faith》: “True repentance leads to the forgiveness of sin, and it changes people from the core of their hearts”

• 《A Grain of Mustard Seed》: “From a youth failing at everything grew to be a matured Christian”

• I Will Make You Rest

• Empowered by the blood of Jesus

• The Son who was lost then found

• Goat and the Lamb

• Noah was a just man

• Being blessed with Abraham

• God will provide himself

• Arise, Let us go up to Bethel

• Thou shalt be over my house,

• And Joseph wept

• The Life of David

• The Tabernacle (Part 1), (Part 2)

• Part-taker of the Promise

• Out from despair

• Lectures on Hebrews (Part 1), (Part 2)

• Tamar

• Rahab

• My Punishment is greater than I can bear

• The Time Spent Together with Jesus

• Gospel to the ends of the earth

• Those who met Jesus

• Two types of spiritual life

• When he beheld, he lived.

• What Do You Hunger For?

• When I see the blood, I will pass over you

• Simon the Sorcerer’s Faith without Repentance

• The Women in the Genealogy of Christ

• Burnt Offering

• Grain Offering

• Peace Offering

• The Death of Saul

• Two Decrees

• Just Like the Samaritan Woman

• Navigating the Heart: Who Is Dragging You

• Be Assured First

• Standing on the field of the heart