In the Lausanne Covenant, which was ratified in 1974, world evangelization is defined as “the whole Church taking the whole gospel to the whole world.” It also declares that “the church is the community of God’s people rather than an institution” and that it must not be “identified with any particular culture, social or political system, or human ideology.”

40 years have passed since Korean self-supporting nurses set foot in Germany in 1969. For early pioneering missionaries, the last 40 years have been a dramatic journey full of tears and sweat, countless cycles of challenges, failures through which we step by step made and still make our way to God to fulfill the mission He has given us. In order to celebrate the 40th anniversary of European UBF campus mission, I compiled the 40-Year History of European Campus Mission, with a sense of mission to pass it down as a spiritual legacy to future generations. This project also inspired me to pray earnestly on my knees for the next 40 years of Europe UBF mission.

Thanks and praise be to God who sent out countless self-supporting missionaries to Germany and Europe, and raised native European shepherds as harvest reapers and leaders to carry out campus mission ministry for the last 40 years. The marvelous gospel ministries that we currently witness and experience are the mighty work of God. What we offered God was meager as Andrew’s fives loaves and two fish, but God blessed our offering and established 50 UBF campus ministries in 23 European countries during the last 40 years. Currently, approximately 230 missionaries, 60 native shepherds, and 260 second generation coworkers are attending this ministry.

Forsaking worldly titles and glory, our missionaries and native European shepherds obeyed Jesus’ world mission command, offering their lives and youth to God as a kernel of wheat that falls and dies. God blessed their sacrificial life of faith and revealed to them “The Hope of God” towards Europe for spiritual awakening and revival so that Europe may be a missionary-sending continent once again.

Missionaries in Germany and Europe will always remember Dr. Samuel Lee who served Germany and Europe UBF with life-giving spirit while holding on to this hope of God. I give my sincere thanks to late Dr. Samuel Lee, Dr. John Jun, Mother Sarah Barry, Missionary Grace A. Lee and all the Korea UBF staff shepherds for sending out excellent Bible teachers and warriors of faith to Germany and Europe. Moved by this love and dedication, European coworkers gathered together day and night for 1,000 “Nehemiah united prayer meetings” in support of the 2009 European International Summer Bible Conference (EISBC). God blessed our united prayers and two months prior to the conference, more than 1,100 people have registered. What is more precious is the work of the Holy Spirit in helping second generation (New Generation) missionaries and first generation missionaries overcome the generation gap. Many second generation missionaries are growing as or have been established as the leaders of the next generation, co-working with the first generation missionaries and native shepherds.

The 2009 EISBC which commemorates the 40th anniversary of European campus mission is also the 12th International Conference held in Europe. I warmly welcome, from the bottom of my heart, all the mission co-workers who participated as prayer servants, staff shepherds from Korea, native shepherds, second generation missionaries, and their families. I would also like to thank Reverend Ock-Hee Park who sacrificially served the first nurse missionaries through Bible study during the early stages of ministry. I would also like to welcome all the responsible leaders of German and European churches, as well as Korean churches in Germany who are coming to bless this historical conference. I thank all the journalists who are coming to cover this historical work of God from Europe and Korea to reveal God’s hope and vision through their reports. Thanks and praise be to God who raised up German and European native shepherds and the new generation leaders to declare “The Hope of God.” May God fill the hearts of all the mission coworkers of Germany and Europe UBF and all the conference participants with “The Hope of God” and vision through the 2009 EISBC. Please pray earnestly for the spiritual awakening and revival of Europe so that Europe may become a missionary-sending continent once again, overcoming the influence of post-modernism. On this occasion of publishing the 40-year History of European mission, I would like to share the significance of 2009 EISBC.

First, the 2009 European International Summer Bible Conference is proof that European campus mission is possible through selfsupporting lay missionaries. When three Korean nurses were sent out as self-supporting missionaries to Germany in 1969, no one imagined God’s hidden will for His mighty salvation work through them. The three nurses were like a mustard seed planted on this mission field. Now, Germany and Europe UBF has grown large enough to host of EISBC, serving more than 1,000 attendees from 45 countries. Furthermore, there are German and European native shepherds who received God’s calling for European mission and succeeded Korean missionaries’ leadership as UBF church directors. This is not only a living testimony that mission in developed countries through Korean self-supporting missionaries is possible, but it is a practical and effective model of self-supporting mission.

Following this model, native Europe UBF shepherds and the new generation leaders are now preparing themselves to be sent out as missionaries to a second mission field. Presently, sending out professional self-supporting missionaries throughout Europe UBF seems as insignificant as planting a mustard seed in the ground, but in 20 to 30 years, this mustard seed will grow into an enormous tree so that birds of the air come and perch in its branches. Through 2009 EISBC, God will raise many Bible teachers and campus shepherds for the spiritual revival of Europe. The almighty God will surely accomplish this with His mighty hands.

Secondly, we have developed a mission strategy to raise not only the European natives, but also foreign students in Europe with Muslim background as Bible teachers to send them as missionaries when they return to their homeland. This mission strategy is applicable and suitable in reaching out to inaccessible places, such as Muslim nations in which Korean or European missionaries are not allowed.

By following this strategy, France UBF is supporting Frenchspeaking African nations. Germany and Greece UBF will support Middle East mission as well. Using this strategy, we can send out young foreign intellectuals who come to study in Europe as well as European natives as missionaries making Europe a missionary sending continent once again.

In preparing for the conference, we have encouraged regional coworking through establishing seven regions in Europe according to language and culture. This enabled the missionaries to co-work at a regional level within the European continent. As all the seven regions in Europe engaged actively in serving the ministries, Bible studies and disciple-making ministries were revitalized. In addition, the formation of committees and mission prayer teams with specifically assigned tasks and prayer topics further advanced God’s work. These efforts have positively encouraged the missionaries to actively co-work and contribute to the European campus mission in various ways according to one’s own talent and interests. One of our thanksgiving topics for the 12th European International Conference is that we were able to invite Christian leaders of Korean churches in Europe, as well as the leaders of European churches. Through this historical conference, we may be able to share the knowledge of self-supporting mission that UBF has acquired over the last 40 years with the European and Korean churches. Macroscopically, this co-working is significant since Korean, European, and Europe UBF churches all together form the body of Christ. God will be pleased as we co-work with each other to serve world mission. Through coworking and collaborating, may God send out 100,000 professional self-supporting missionaries to China and Muslim nations by 2041.

Compiling this book together, I tried my best to include all the stories of faith, tears and sweat of our missionaries and European coworkers of the last 40 years. However, I apologize that not everything could be included due to time constraints. I once again would like to thank all the missionaries and native coworkers who gave their lives to campus mission and world mission ministries. I would like to thank each one of the missionaries who provided priceless photos and stories for this book. I would also like to express my gratitude toward UBF General Director Rev. Dr. John Jun, who gave much valuable spiritual advice along the way, Rev. Mother Sarah Barry, Missionary Grace A. Lee, Korea UBF Director Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Lee, Rev. Dr. Paul Hong, Rev. Dr. Joseph Ahn, Joseph Lee of Korea UBF, Rev. Elijah Lee, and Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Kim of Kwangju UBF, and Europe UBF Honorary Directors Rev. Abraham Lee and Missionary Kaleb Hong. My sincere thanks to Dr. Paul Koh, missionaries Johannes Lee, Stephanus Park, Markus Kum, and Paul Lee (Greece) for writing and putting together the 40-year history and to Missionary Hanna Ryu, Sarah Eun-Jie Park, Deborah Chang, Mary Grace Kwon, and all the other translation staff and coworkers for editing and making corrections on this book.

Thanks and praise be to God who blessed our one-to-one Bible study ministries and countless united prayers to raise an army of God among German and European campus students. Glory and praise be to God who called us out of darkness into His wonderful light to take part in God’s redemptive work. May God continue to send out 100,000 self-supporting missionaries to 233 countries including China, North Korea, and Muslim nations by 2041. Amen!

This book is the collection of testimonies, lecture notes and prayerful assessments of UBF mission work over the past 40 years. At the beginning of UBF Mission in Europe, Korean female nurses had an important role. Later, students and business professionals joined. A growing number of European nationals take leadership roles. This UBF mission, therefore, shows how God used these pioneers to rebuild the people of Europe. It is noteworthy to document the details of this UBF work for the future reference. In doing so, we reflect on the past, assess the present and build for the future.

Reinhold Niebuhr said, “Nothing which is true or beautiful or good, makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith”. Each Christian mission movement operates in its unique historical context. UBF Europe Mission is also rooted in the great historical flows of Christian mission which go all the way back to the Biblical times. We recognize how much we are indebted to God and to the forerunners of faith that went ahead of us for who we are and what we do. The meaning of this work may make perfect sense only in God’s time. Until then, may we humbly learn and grow more for Christ and his kingdom.

First of all, I give glory and thanks to God for accomplishing UBF world mission starting with Germany UBF. Up to this point, 1,500 missionaries have been sent out to approximately 90 countries through UBF and the beginning of this was the three nurse missionaries who were sent out to Germany. I would like to thank late Dr. Samuel Lee, Mother Sarah Barry, and Dr. John Jun for his support, Dr. Samuel H. Lee, and staff shepherds in Korea. In lieu of the European International Summer Bible conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of European campus mission, I am extremely pleased about the publication of the 40-Year history book. As we record the 40-Year History of German Mission in God’s point of view, there are special historical characteristics and significance.

First, German mission was the beginning of the self-supporting missionaries’ ministry. In 1969, In-Kyung Suh, Hwa Ja Lee, and Dong Ran Sul, the three nurse missionaries were sent out to West Germany as the first UBF missionaries. Afterward, in 1972, Sook Chul Kim, Ki Hyang Lee, Moon Haeng Park, Wol Shin Lee, Young Suh Kim, and Sook Hee Kim were sent out successively as nurse missionaries. Considering the conditions in Korea those days, sending out missionaries, especially lay missionaries was not easy. In this way, their missionary lives became the new model for Korean Christian mission history. It was the beginning of self-supporting mission.

Second, this early German mission was a ministry based on one-to-one Bible study. Missionaries who were sent out had one-to-one Bible studies with their nurse colleagues at work. This was the only thing they could do and from the outside, it seemed insignificant. However, this is a history of the proverbial mustard seed. Their one-to-one Bible study ministry grew fast in only 2-3 years. As a proof of this, 150 participated in the Seewies Bible Conference in Switzerland in 1974 and 250 including 50 European natives participated in the Frankfurt Summer Bible Conference in 1975. Through Bible study, they learned of God who values one soul and Jesus’ shepherd heart and when they put their knowledge into practice, the work of the Holy Spirit prevailed.

Third, it was a disciple-making ministry of German intellectuals on campus. From 1978, student missionaries who established house churches with the nurse missionaries started coming to Germany to for German campus pioneering mission and world mission. They could have enjoyed a comfortable life getting a job in Korea after graduating. However, they came to Germany instead, obeying Jesus’ world mission command with simple faith. Although they were from different Bible centers in Korea and had different characters, they denied themselves and built a holy vessel of spirit.

Moreover, they lived a pioneer’s life enduring triple and quadruple crosses. Therefore, they gave themselves to mission as Bible teachers for German campus intellectuals. Some of them offered their Ph.D. degrees to God and remained on the front lines of the mission field to serve the campus pioneering and disciple-making ministry. God received their sacrifice and dedication and accomplished amazing history. German intellectuals with strong egos were
drawn to our meeting and studied the Bible with the missionaries. Furthermore, they were trained by the missionaries and made decisions to live as Jesus’ disciples. In a missionological sense, gospel has been sent from the east to the west.

Fourth, European natives are now being raised as successors and responsible leaders for the church. Natives were changed and their faith grew through steady Bible study until they became coworkers in God’s ministry. Therefore, in following the Nevius strategy, we are succeeding our leadership to the natives. Currently native leaders in Germany, Cologne, Bonn, Heidelberg, the UK, and London UBF are serving Sunday messages and hold many meetings with spiritual leaders. Like Ezra in the Old Testament and Nehemiah, Israel’s shepherd, just a few spiritual leaders were important. They accomplished spiritual revival through rebuilding the wall and teaching the Bible to the despairing Israelites to obey the word of God.

Fifth, God has used Germany as the base of the European mission. From the 1980s, missionaries started coming to Germany through the embassy, companies or as students. They were precious to us and we prayed for them to become campus pioneers. We especially encouraged them to live a life as pioneers by overcoming many difficulties by faith and shared our know-how with them. God helped us pioneer over 20 European countries in the last 20 years.
Through their sacrificial co-working, God has raised ancestors of faith and carried out campus pioneering ministries.

Lastly, in consideration of the direction ahead of us, native leaders and second generation missionaries carry in their hands the mission to succeed and to improve the ministry as able disciple makers. Furthermore, they must pray for spiritual revival of Europe so that Europe may be used as a missionary-sending continent once again. What is more important is to go back to the Bible in this postmodernist period and become independent Bible teachers and prayer
servants endowed with the Holy Spirit. In the present, the whole of Europe including Germany is greatly affected and challenged by Muslim expansion. Many churches in Europe are closing or being renovated as restaurants or exhibition spaces. Construction of Muslim mosques continues in many European nations. In Cologne, where I am, they are building a mosque comparable to the size of Cologne Dome. In the midst of such spiritual challenges, Europe
UBF must be spiritually awakened and revived to form a spiritual unity and face the Muslimization of Europe. As Jesus raised twelve disciples in the times of darkness and used them as the successors and gospel workers in the history of God, I pray earnestly that God may accomplish his ministry of hope through the European native disciple-making ministry.

St. Luke said the following when he recorded Luke’s Gospel. “Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.” (Luke 1:1-4)

St. Luke felt the strong need for a historical record about Jesus’ ministry. Therefore, Luke’s Gospel records in detail Jesus’ life and ministry from its origins. Accordingly, a history book which records the work of the Holy Spirit through people is very important and necessary. In the Old Testament, the history of the Passover (Lev 23:5-8) is recorded in detail so that the Israelites would not forget God who rescued them when they were suffering under the rule of Pharaoh by revealing his power to Moses. He did the same at the Feast of Tabernacles and Harvest (Ex 23:16) so that they would not forget the history of God.

In this perspective, publication of the history of the last 40 years containing detailed accounts and a photo album of how God sent out three nurse missionaries to Germany and many others following them and started evangelization of Germany and Europe is essential. Especially, publishing the 40-year history on the occasion of 2009 UBF European Summer Bible Conference is very important. We have to publish such books to teach our second generation how God used us and to help them serve the ministry of God with a clear identity. Also, our first generation may reflect on the past and receive God’s direction according to His will. UBF is a professional self-supporting mission organization. God has blessed the German disciple-making ministry since 40 years ago through the nurse missionaries who came to Germany, conquered the German language, and preached the gospel through one-to-one Bible study to German intellectuals. Afterward, many foreign student missionaries came to Germany and they have been serving the German campus disciple-making ministry effectively. God has blessed our forefather missionaries’ five loaves and two fish and accomplished pioneering ministries not only in Germany, but in 23 European nations.

Missionologists are saying that the number of believers in Europe is decreasing nowadays and that Christianity is backing off gradually. However, UBF is challenging these tendencies and is increasing by 10% every year. I pray that we may learn how God worked through our forefathers and accomplished great things and serve the campus pioneering ministries in 40 countries in Europe. So much effort and material have been put into this book. I would like to thank Europe UBF Director Dr. Peter Chang and all the European national directors for their labor.

Praise and thank God who hears and answers prayer. During this 2009 European Summer Bible Conference, we want to remember what God has done and give him all the praise and glory. Especially, we give praise and thanks to God for his mighty work during the past 40 years in the campuses of Germany and all Europe through UBF missionaries and national shepherds. We remember and give thanks for the vision and sacrificial life of Dr. Samuel Lee who earnestly prayed for German and European campus mission.

God accepted the five loaves and two fish of prayer, materials and life which students in Korea offered to Him for world mission in the turbulent ’60′s. He heard their prayers. He blessed the sacrifice of the Korean nurses who came as missionaries to Germany. He also blessed the sacrificial lives of Korean student missionaries and used them also for the evangelization of European students. Furthermore, God has blessed beautiful coworking among the first generation Korean missionaries, national shepherds, and New Generation missionaries. God raised up many faithful national shepherds among European students through them.

This book , “Five Loaves and Two Fish,” which describes the 40 year history of UBF mission in Europe, was exciting read for me. It is like the Ebenezer stone (1 Samuel 7). Thanks be to God who has been our help. He is our hope for the future.

The theme of this Conference is the Hope of God. We want to make God’s hope for the redemption of all Creation through the resurrection power of Jesus our hope. May God work to renew our hope and vision and prepare us to serve him in Europe and throughout the world during the next 40 years, or until Jesus comes again. Much prayer went into the preparation of this Conference. May those who gather from all over the world find opportunity to pray together during the Conference for the spiritual renewal of Europe.

We pray that every UBF chapter in Germany and throughout Europe may be a missionary sending chapter. We pray that Europe may be revived as a missionary sending continent. May God use UBF as a part of his Church to share in the task of extending his kingdom to the nations of the world in this 21st century.

“Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. lthough the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.” (Exodus 19:5, 6)

Praise and thanks be to our God who established UBF through late Dr. Samuel Lee and Mother Barry and accomplished the great history of Korean and world campus disciple-raising and self-supporting lay mission for the last 48 years through numerous sacrificial servants of God. Today, all the fruits of European campus mission that we could witness, perceive and feel were born from God. We just offered our simple faith and obedience towards God’s words, earnest prayer, many tears, toil and devotion like Andrew’s loaves and fish. God prayed on them and used them. Ever since UBF sent out three nurse missionaries to Germany back in 1969, God continually sent out over 3,000 professional self-supporting lay missionaries to over 90 countries for the last 40 years.

Our UBF missionaries gave up worldly titles and glory and offered their youth and whole life to God as a kernel of wheat, simply obeying God’s world mission command. They offered their faith, obedience, prayer, tears, toil and devotion to God. God preciously used them to establish the great work of salvation. Thank God!

I give glory to God who allowed us to have 2009 European International Bible Conference upon celebrating the 40th Anniversary of UBF European campus mission.

I give glory to God as well for the publication of ‘UBF European Campus Mission 40-Year History.’ I would like to send my thanks to each and every pioneering missionary in Europe who were sent out to various regions of Europe, bore the cross of self-support and sacrificed their lives for campus gospel mission and disciple-raising ministries.

Even if this world does not recognize your effort and sacrifice, our God cherishes you and preciously used you for European campus mission and continuously uses you. All of you are indeed the history makers and the heroes of faith in this generation. I give all of you a big hand. I also express my sincere thanks to European coworkers and European UBF director, Dr. Peter Chang who wrote, compiled and published this book. I add my congratulations on the publication of the book.

This book covers the entire history of European UBF campus mission from the very beginning to the present. The book also includes special features on several people involved in campus mission. It also features the almanac and various photographs giving the graphical ideas and pictures of 40-year European campus mission history. Therefore, this book is the important reference as well as the historic record. Through this book, all the missionaries from non-European countries and Korean coworkers could also have a chance to observe European UBF campus mission history.

Furthermore, I believe that there has been no better time to publish this book than now as the interests in self-supporting professional missionaries are growing more than ever before. Today, selfsupporting professional mission is emerging as a major alternative for the evangelization of the unreached in the world. More and more evangelical leaders take the interests in self-supporting professional lay mission. This book would be a great source and an instrument that provides relevant examples and excellent knowledge on selfsupporting professional mission work. I expect that the exemplary cases of UBF self-supporting professional mission work may provide a role model for the world evangelical mission.

It is certainly God’s amazing work that local people are evangelized and raised by Korean self-supporting lay issionaries and become leaders for the local chapters. The Nevius mission plans and Apostle Paul’s mission strategies are being fulfilled. This presents a positive and bright future for UBF world mission.

The number of local leaders who accept the calling as missionary and are sent out to the third countries as missionaries has started growing. This is clearly the new beginning of God’s history that starts the new chapter for UBF world mission history. Right now, this new beginning of history of local leaders being sent out as selfsupporting lay missionary seems like a small mustard seed. However, after 20 or 30 years, this small mustard seed will grow to become a giant tree. Thus, I see the great vision that many missionaries would be sent out from every mission field around the world just as many missionaries were sent out from Korea. Through that, the day will come when God’s knowledge covers the whole world as the water covers the sea. We can see this vision through our almighty God who starts this work and completes this work!

I pray that this year’s European International Bible conference and the publication of ‘European campus mission 40-year history’ may light the fire for spiritual revival. Also I pray that this book may be used to serve God’s mission through self-supporting professional lay missionaries. This book may become a source of joy, grace and gratitude for all the coworkers in Korea and the missionaries around the world who faithfully devote themselves for the expansion of God’s kingdom. Also, this book may be offered as the five loaves of bread and two fish for achieving our vision to send out 100,000 selfsupporting professional lay missionaries by 2041.

With great joy I greet the participants of the European Summer Bible Conference of University Bible Fellowship at Eringerfeld in celebrating her 40th anniversary of campus mission in Europe!

Still, I vividly remember the Winter Leaders’ Conference in Mücke this February, where I had the honour of contributing as a speaker. For the numerous personal testimonies of Korean and German participants – young women and men – showed me plainly and lively what a blessed work UBF is doing in many cities and especially at the campuses of our nation and of other European nations.

In the anniversary volume I have read with great emotion about the historic circumstances leading to this gospel ministry when the first group of Korean nurses left their homeland in 1969 and came to Germany in order to perform a sacrificial nursing service in the hospitals. From my own experience as an occasional patient I know about the love and professional expertise these young women show in their service, how well they adapted to the fellowship of their German colleagues, and how quickly they won the hearts of the patients.

They had been called to Germany because here we had an acute nursing emergency, and they bid farewell to their families with tears as Korea – even 15 years after the fraternal war – still suffered from social needs, and they wanted to support their beloved ones with the money they would earn through hard labour in a faraway country. Not all of them were Christians; but their Christian colleagues invited them to join Bible studies after work and on Sundays, led by UBF evangelists – foremost their founder Samuel Lee and his coworker Sarah Barry. In this way, many of them found Jesus as their personal Saviour and thus discovered the true happiness for their lives. I was deeply impressed by the baptism of two Korean nurses in the Methodist “Peace Church” of Tubingen in 1984.

Europe had the historical privilege of coming to know the gospel through Christian missionaries even from the first century, nation by nation, and on this foundation of Christian world view and ethics she has established her occidental culture. Later, through the great missionary movement, people in other continents have come to know the Christian faith, e.g. Korea in power since the end of the 19th century. While indigenous churches have grown there and have left a Christian impact on their environment, Europe has fallen prey to a process of de-Christianisation and secularisation after the age of enlightenment, and the campuses are dominated by a spirit of science-based atheism.

It is amazing that now evangelists have come from the Far East, especially from Korea, and try to win over European students for the Christian faith through their own personal testimony and deep roots in the Holy Scriptures. The history of UBF in Europe proves that this is possible through the presence of the Holy Spirit, so that now Korean and German and Swiss academics stand side by side in this blessed service for Christ and form an inseparable fellowship. May the LORD himself be noticeably present at this anniversary conference in Eringerfeld and encourage all  participants to intensify their efforts!

Before God graciously introduced me to the work of UBF, through a student of mine at the Wheaton College Graduate School (Illinois), I knew almost nothing of the history and mission of this excellent ministry. Through personal friendships, friendships that have brought great blessing to me and the ministry I lead (ACT 3), I have come to see the deep passion for the kingdom of God that uniquely marks this wonderful work of Christ.

While many American missions are losing their focus UBF presses forward seeking to make disciples of all nations. Their clarity regarding on the kingdom, and their emphasis on every Christian being engaged in mission, is profoundly needed. This is a major reason for my gratitude for UBF. I believe that God has placed UBF in the forefront of growing ministries that will be used to stir his people into deeper obedience to Christ. I am grateful to learn more of the history of UBF and long to see your work in Europe spread into many spiritually dark places where the gospel once impacted an entire culture centuries ago. May God increase the vision of UBF and thereby may your witness a vital part of the recovery of spiritual vision so needed in our generation.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Again and again it is simultaneously a miracle and a sign of the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, that he uses a small beginning to bear great fruit, is it not? The first three nurse missionaries from Korea were sent out as five loaves and two fish for German Campus Mission and they trusted in Jesus. Jesus has used these bread and fish to bring the gospel to other nurses and to many young people, gradually unfolding the ministry of UBF.

Faith in the Greatness of our Lord was and is the requirement to experience the power of the holy spirit in the calling for a ministry. Since the first missionaries 40 years ago, the ministry of UBF in Germany and Europe has been growing and bringing blessings to many.

Another characteristic of a ministry that follows Jesus and is called to conquer land for the Lord is courage. Before Joshua entered the promised land, God commanded him several times, “Be strong and courageous.“

Looking back on the last four decades of commissioning Korean nurse missionaries, the founder of UBF, Dr. Samuel Lee, was a devoted follower of Jesus and an encourager. He prepared the missionaries for their mission and also strengthened the small ministry in Germany.

In a world which becomes more and more godless, now after 40 years of blessed ministry UBF is challenged to continue this important ministry with courage and by faith in Jesus. This will surely not be possible without attacks from the enemy (Satan), who works hard to stop the traces of blessing. But with the assurance that Christ, who has sent us out like “sheep among wolves”, is with us as our loving shepherd and encourages us – dear brothers and sisters – to walk forward courageously.

For the years to come I would like to share one word from the Bible with you, that has often been a comfort and direction in my life and ministry, and on which lies a great promise, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)

Finally I want to thank UBF, on behalf of all co-workers from Open Doors, that UBF has collected an offering for the persecuted North Korean brothers and sisters, who go through many sufferings because they believe in Christ. Please continue to pray for these brothers and sisters to remain strong in their faith. May Jesus continuously use the ministry of UBF in Germany and all the world to bring people to Christ and strengthen their faith. Be strong and courageous!

World mission is a response to the command of Jesus Christ. According to the Scripture, it is disobedience to not respond to this command. UBF has opened the door to self-supporting mission. UBF started out as a Bible reading meeting among university students and in the Bible, they found the world mission command of Jesus Christ. Missionaries Underwood and Appenzeller received and responded to God’s calling through Bible study.

I stand amazed at the fact that self-supporting ministry which began with the three nurses 40 years ago grew into a size of 1,500 selfsupporting lay missionaries in over 90 countries worldwide.

Paul was a great pioneer of self-supporting mission. Paul preached the gospel, traveling from Jerusalem to Illyricum and even across Asia. His vision was to reach Rome and Spain, which was considered the end of the earth that time. He started tent-making ministry. Selfsupporting mission means to endure all sorts of pains and sufferings.But its reward is a hundred or even a thousand times bigger.

I would like to congratulate UBF for successfully carrying out self-supporting ministries for the last 40 years. Korean Church already proclaimed its vision to send out 1,000,000 self-supporting missionaries till 2020 and 100,000 long-term missionaries till 2030. UBF also proclaimed its vision to send out 100,000 professional self-supporting missionaries. I certainly believe that UBF, being the frontier of self-supporting mission will accomplish this vision.
It is quite historical that Korea, which used be a non-evangelized country has sent over 20,000 missionaries preaching the gospel across the five oceans and the six continents. 40 years of UBF European campus mission is not an exception. Publishing 40 years of history of European campus mission has an important meaning in that it is not only to reflect back on the past history, but also to confirm our vision for the new beginning. My wish would be that
UBF and Korean churches may become faithful coworkers for world mission for the glory of God.

May God’s blessings be with all the mission coworkers who gave their best in Europe mission field for the last 40 years and with all those who worked for the publication of the 40-Year History of European Campus mission and also with all the coworkers in UBF. I sincerely congratulate you for the publication of the 40-Year History of European Campus Mission.