“All of my sins are washed as white as snow by the blood of Jesus came into my heart. That day, the Holy Spirit worked in me and I was freed from sins that tortured me and received true peace in my heart.“
“Before I was born again, I failed at everything, but after receiving the forgiveness of sins and devoting my life to the Gospel, God’s only provided me with precious opportunities to preach the good news of His salvation.”
– Pastor Ock Soo Park
Pastor Ock Soo Park is the founder of the Good News Mission, an independent Baptist mission organization dedicated to spreading the gospel of salvation to the ends of the earth.
Since Pastor Park received the gift of eternal salvation and forgiveness of sin in his heart in 1962, God has led him to live for the Gospel for the past 49 years. He went on to found the Good News Mission, and has done the precious work of establishing churches and training missionaries for many years. Now there are over 350 different Good News Mission churches around the world. Each church also shares the mission and dream of spreading the Gospel to every person.
Pastor Park’s publication ministry continues to reach thousands people all over the world through life-changing sermon books such as, The Secret of Forgiveness of Sin and Being Born Again, Out From Despair, and Repentance and Faith. There is also, the “Good News Weekly”, which is steadily becoming one of the biggest Christian newspapers in Korea, and a monthly magazine called, “The Good News” currently in distribution internationally.
Pastor Park’s broadcast sermons cover the international airwaves in the series titled, “Lectures on Genesis,” and his written works had run in both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
In 2001, Pastor Park founded the International Youth Fellowship (IYF), a non-profit, international organization that focuses on youth development and the cultivation of leadership through spiritual life. IYF is now one of the largest and most innovative Christian youth organizations in the world. With programs such as the IYF World Camp, the Good News Corps, and IYF Medical Volunteer program, IYF is currently setting new standards in the mission fields of the world and changing today’s youth into ambassadors of hope.
In addition to the founding of the Mahanaim School of Theology, Pastor Park is currently training missionaries and workers of the Gospel of the next generation to preach the Gospel around the globe and to live a true spiritual life of faith. Currently there are Good News Mission missionaries and Good News Corps volunteers in over 60 countries around the world. God has led Pastor Park to truly live his entire life for the furtherance of the Gospel and will of God.
Pastor Ock Soo Park also currently serves as the senior pastor of the Good News Gangnam Church in the Republic of Korea.
Profile
Founder of the Good News Mission Church
Author of 38 books, including the best-selling titles, “Who Are You Who Is Dragging Me?” and “Secret of Forgiveness of Sins and Being Born Again”
Author of a featured sermon series in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times
Founder of Mahanaim, a Christian post-secondary school in NY
Religious advisor to national presidents
Founder of International Youth Fellowship (IYF)
Host of the annual Ministers of Youth World Forum
Founder of Good News Corps
Founder of the Lincoln House School
Founder of Good News Broadcasting System (GBS)
Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, National University of Mongolia
“New Leader of Churches” award, The Daily Sports
2005 New Korean Award, Hankook Ilbo
“2005 Great Korean Grand Prize” award from The Korea Times
Official TI&E Speaker for the Korean National Army
Pastor Ock Soo Park
according to heads of states
“Pastor Ock Soo Park can inspire change in a person’s inner nature. He is a true leader. The young people that met him have learned how to love others, and they are equipped with a mindset to feel the pain of people who are in difficulty and poverty.”
“Mind Education is a bonafide curriculum to instill proper values and a healthy mindset. It’s as new and outstanding subject in the field of education. I assure people that they will be filled with love through the Mind Education lectures.
“The messages by Pastor Ock Soo Park teaches young people how to respect their fellow person in society. His teachings also develop faith and spiritual values inside of them. Our country truly needs Pastor Ock Soo Park.”
Soo Sung Lee
Former Chancellor of Seoul National Univ., Former Prime Minister
Fernando Lugo
Former President of Paraguay
Thomas Boni Yayi
Former President of Benin
“I truly thank founder Ock Soo Park who thinks of Bolivia, heals the youths, and delivers love. Moreover, I am sure that the event like this will set the course for students to live a happy life.”
“I was able to hear the amazing gospel that ‘the blood of Jesus sanctified us’ from Pastor Ock Soo Park, which is same gospel that D.L. Moody preached despite uncalculatable persecution in America. That was the greatest gift in my lifetime.”
“I felt that I came to life as I listened to the word from Pastor Ock Soo Park. I really felt alive. I’d like to dedicate the rest of my life in the mission to correct wrong teachings and help others to realize the truth. I will go wherever with Pastor Park hand-in-hand to cry out against incorrect messages and teach.”
Jeanine Áñez Chávez
President of Bolivia
Ronald Harden
President of Epic Bible College, U.S.A.
Hyun Jong Shin
Former President of Gideon Graduate School of Paul Theology School
“What Good News Mission does is teach the word. I can see God using Pastor Park whenever he comes to my country. He is the prophet of our generation.”
“Good News Mission has been a special blessing to us. We have become close in trust and we have the privilege to witness in-person the tremendous work that Good News Mission does in the field of evangelism. We have also gained the opportunity to collaborate.”
“Many people, even pastors, have received salvation and have been established in the faith toward God through the word of the gospel that Pastor Ock Soo Park preaches in this day and age.”
Pastor Arthur Kitonga
Archbishop of Christian churches in Kenya
Pastor Rigoberto Vega Alvarado
President of Federación Alianza Evangélica Costarricense
Pastor Alekseev Oleg
President of Baptist Church in Voronezh, Russia
Soo Sung Lee
Former Chancellor of Seoul National Univ., Former Prime Minister
“Pastor Ock Soo Park can inspire change in a person’s inner nature. He is a true leader. The young people that met him have learned how to love others, and they are equipped with a mindset to feel the pain of people who are in difficulty and poverty.”
Fernando Lugo
Former President of Paraguay
“Mind Education is a bonafide curriculum to instill proper values and a healthy mindset. It’s as new and outstanding subject in the field of education. I assure people that they will be filled with love through the Mind Education lectures.
Thomas Boni Yayi
Former President of Benin
“The messages by Pastor Ock Soo Park teaches young people how to respect their fellow person in society. His teachings also develop faith and spiritual values inside of them. Our country truly needs Pastor Ock Soo Park.”
Jeanine Áñez Chávez
President of Bolivia
“I truly thank founder Ock Soo Park who thinks of Bolivia, heals the youths, and delivers love. Moreover, I am sure that the event like this will set the course for students to live a happy life.”
Ronald Harden
President of Epic Bible College, U.S.A.
“I was able to hear the amazing gospel that ‘the blood of Jesus sanctified us’ from Pastor Ock Soo Park, which is same gospel that D.L. Moody preached despite uncalculatable persecution in America. That was the greatest gift in my lifetime.”
Hyun Jong Shin
Former President of Gideon Graduate School of Paul Theology School
“I felt that I came to life as I listened to the word from Pastor Ock Soo Park. I really felt alive. I’d like to dedicate the rest of my life in the mission to correct wrong teachings and help others to realize the truth. I will go wherever with Pastor Park hand-in-hand to cry out against incorrect messages and teach.”
ACCOMPLISHMENT
2017 ~ 2019 LECTURER AT CHRISTIAN LEADERS FORUM (CLF)
2001 ~ 2019 LECTURER AT KOREA WORLD CULTURAL CAMP
2018 LECTURER AT MANDELA NATIONAL STADIUM IN UGANDA
FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE WORSHIP SERVICE
2010 FOUNDED MAHANAIM BIBLE TRAINING CENTER
2009 FOUNDED BROADCASTING STATION GBS IN KENYA
SELECTED AS 2004 OUTSTANDING TRAINER BY ARMY HEADQUARTERS,
INSTRUCTOR FOR MILITARY UNIT SUICIDE PREVENTION EDUCATION
2001 FOUNDED INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FELLOWSHIP (IYF) (CEO ADVISOR)
2000 FOUNDED GRACIAS CHOIR
1991 ~ 1993 DAEJEON PRISON CORRECTION COMMITTEE
1988 ~ 1990 SUWON PRISON CORRECTION COMMITTEE
1976 FOUNDED KOREA GOSPEL MISSIONARY SCHOOL (NOW MAHANAIM SEMINARY)
1972 FOUNDED KOREAN BAPTIST SOCIETY (PRESENT-DAY GOOD NEWS MISSION)
AWARDS
2019 CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION FROM PRIME MINISTER OF ESWATINI,
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF LESOTHO
2019 APPRECIATION PLAQUE FROM MINISTRY OF JUSTICE,
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THAILAND
2017 UGANDA ‘AFRICA LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE AWARDS’
2015 BENIN GOVERNMENT ‘MEDAL OF MERIT’
2010 CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION FROM SEOUL METROPOLITAN POLICE AGENCY
2009 CITATION FROM BUSAN METROPOLITAN CITY
2008 CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION FROM POLICE COMMISSIONER OF SOUTH KOREA
2005 ‘2005 THE NEW KOREAN AWARD’,
‘2005 KOREAN SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION AWARD’ FROM HANKOOK ILBO
2004 ‘KOREA FUTURE MANAGEMENT AWARDS’
TRUE RELIGIOUS BELIEVER FROM THE HERALD BUSINESS