David Yonggi Cho is the founder the Yoido Full Gospel Church (Assemblies of God), the world's largest congregation, with has membership of more than 900,000 (as of 2007). He was converted to Christianity at the age of 19, after a high school girl visited him, when he was dying from an unusual and incurable tuberculosis, telling him about Jesus Christ. He was miraculously healed from this terminal illness by God. Believing that God had called him to the ministry, Cho began working as an interpreter for the American evangelist Ken Tize. In 1956, he received a scholarship to study theology at Full Gospel Bible College in Seoul. He graduated in March 1958.

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