Almost 1,000 people attended a four-day summer camp sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Language Institute in Korea.
Nearly 1,000 people attended a four-day summer camp sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Language Institutes in Korea. The Seoul-based organization, which teaches English, Japanese, and Chinese at more than 30 branch schools across Korea, organized the event, called “Total Immersion English Bible Camp 2001.”
“We want to share the Adventist lifestyle by mingling Adventist teachers and workers of our schools with the community students in the camp,” says Kim Shi Young, director of the institutes. Half of the attendees at the camp, which ran from July 13 to 16, were not Christian believers. Ninety-one people were baptized during the camp.
The Institutes is planning another camp for children at the end of July, with enrollment expected to reach 1,500 at the five different venues.
There are 31 branch Adventist language schools throughout Korea, with the number of students, including children, totaling approximately 35,000. The institutes have some 200 overseas teachers and 330 national teachers, as well as 72 pastors and 188 other staff.
The Adventist Language Institutes was founded in September 1969 by American missionary Dr. D. Hubbard. Since then the concept has become increasingly popular, with new branch schools opening across the country. Another branch school is expected to open later this year.
There some 160,000 Adventist church members in Korea. The church operates a number of institutions in the country including a university, colleges, hospitals, food factories, sanitariums and a publishing house.
