How to prepare birthday of Ahnsahnghong in Gyeongnam

Christ Ahnsahnghong meets the 94th anniversary of His birth in Dec 2011. He was born 1918 and he start the life of gospel worker in 1848 according to the parable of fig tree.

What is the parable of fig tree?

That is words of Jesus, when we study the prophecy of the fig tree,

we realize when Jesus come again.

Mat 24:32~33 「 Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that itd is near, right at the door. 」

If you want to know more about the parable of fig tree click this sentence.

By the way, as prepare the 94th anniversary of Ahnsahnghong's birth,

the members of WMSCOG in Gyeongnam held the environmental cleanup campaign.

Follow is the news about that in Youngnam Maeil Newspaper.

[Over 500 members collected five tons of garbage in the streets around the Injae University in Gimhae]



Around December 25 the anniversary of Christ Ahnsahnghong’s Sacred Birth, the Church of God carries out various volunteer activities all over the world

In Gyeongnam province in Korea, too, the “Environmental Cleanup Celebrating the Sacred Birth of Christ Ahnsahnghong” was held, which the World Mission Society Church of God (General Pastor Kim Joo-cheol) has been carrying out throughout the world. 

Those who rolled up their sleeves to clean the streets of Gimhae were the members from Gimhae, Milyang and Yangsan—the Eastern Gyeongnam Union of the Church of God. Families of the members, their acquaintances and neighbors, who had interest in the environmental issues, also participated in the cleanup. 

The Church of God has made efforts to promote a pleasant residential environment in many ways, and one of them was regularly carrying out the street cleanup. Pastor Park Uk-jin of the 2nd Gimhae Church of God said, “We are holding the street cleanup on a large scale to practice the love of God who sacrificed for the salvation of human beings, celebrating the 94th anniversary of the sacred birth of Christ Ahnsahnghong, which is on December 25, this year. We also hope that we can reduce the scale of environmental disaster by taking out citizen’s awareness of environmental problems and their participation.” 

The members cleaned up the area around the Injae University in Gimhae.

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This day, the cleanup started from 11 a.m. The weather was chilly with the wind of winter. ......

It is hard to see a large group of people voluntarily clean up the streets in a cold weather. Park Gwang-ho the chief of Saman ward office, and Cho Yu-sik the president of the Yongnam Maeil & Younganam Broadcasting Cooperation thanked them for cleaning the area which was urgently needed to be cleaned. The Saman ward office provided the members with garbage tongs and garbage bags, and picked up the bags filled with garbage. 

Park Gwang-ho the head of the ward office appreciated their heartfelt efforts, saying, “Thank you for your great work in this cold weather. I’m very grateful to your effort for our community. I hope that we will be good neighbors, giving and receiving help each other.” ......

The Church of God says that they will hold the celebration service on December 25, 2011, in 1,900 Churches of God throughout the world, meeting the anniversary of Christ Ahnsahnghong’s birth. Saying that they are carrying out environmental cleanup and helping the unprivileged neighbors inside and outside of Korea around the anniversary of Christ Ahnsahnghong’s birth, they hope that they will be able to deliver the love of God who came to this earth for the salvation of human beings and the truth of salvation, through their activities. 

According to the Church of God, Christ Ahnsahnghong who meets the 94th anniversary of His birth this year is the founder of the Church of God. He was born in 1918 and baptized in 1948 at His age of thirty, according to the prophecy about the fig tree. For thirty-seven years from then, He preached the feasts and regulations of the new covenant such as the Sabbath, the Passover, the seven feasts in three times and the regulation on veil, and He ascended to heaven in February, 1985, fulfilling the prophecy of King David. The Church of God believes that Christ Ahnsahnghong who perfectly restored all the feasts of the new covenant which Jesus Christ established 2,000 years ago, is the Second Coming Christ who is the Savior in the age of the Holy Spirit. 

This year, the Church of God carried out the environmental cleanup movement three times all around the world.

The Church also donated rice and daily necessities to the Sambang ward office for the people in difficult.

The citizens praise Pastor Park Uk-jin and the members of the Church of God, who practice God’s love for their neighbors and try to make a beautiful society in the world which is becoming materialistic and getting hard-hearted.

Here is more information for WMSCOG.