Pastor Park wants to meet NBCC officials
DIMAPUR: Expressing deep anguish over accusation of being a ‘heretic’ group, Good News Mission (GNM) founder, Pastor Ock Soo Park today reiterated that he is in Nagaland neither to expand his mission nor for fame and money.
“This is the will of God… I am here to change the spiritual lives of people,” Park said while addressing the media and Christian leaders in Dimapur. Despite the repeated refusals by the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) to meet the preacher, Park threw another invitation to meet them. “I want to meet you…we are being wronged, prosecuted and leaders in Nagaland must know the truth,” he said.
Park said that during the 30 crusades held in different foreign countries in 2010, Nagaland is the only place where he has faced such opposition and persecution. Park said he is saddened by the ‘false’ news published in the local newspapers about GNM. He added that people should not believe in malicious news without even knowing the truth about a person. He called it unfortunate and said that the religious leaders should meet him in person to clear their apprehensions. Park said if the religious leaders of Nagaland have a problem with him, they should fix it and added: “they want to believe that what they see and hear about us is accurate, and they are rejecting us.”
Park further narrated the events which brought him to Nagaland, saying he was invited by a Naga pastor. The pastor, Park said, had attended one of his crusades in Malaysia and expressed interest in having him in Nagaland. Park gladly accepted the invitation to hold Bible crusade in Dimapur in 2009, which unfortunately, ran into controversy before even he landed in Nagaland. Despite the criticisms and accusations from various Christian and secular organisations, Park successfully conducted the crusade.
Park expressed his love for the people of Nagaland and said he wants to see the youths unite their hearts with the youths all over the world to become leaders. He said: “I hope the people of Nagaland will be blessed.” Woo Yong Kim, a missionary serving in India, also briefed the media on the controversy surrounding GNM. Kim said that the booklet published by NBCC is a false report based on information received from a Korean pastor. He said the booklet is intended to disturb and bother the crusade. He regretted that due to the false propagation many Nagas have closed their hearts to the word of God.
Kim said that GNM’s repeated request for audience with NBCC officials was turned down; instead the latter chose to express their thoughts and views through newspapers. “NBCC must protect their fellow Christians from heretics…but they must also hear what we have to say,” the missionary said. Meanwhile, the crusade entered its second night which is attracting scores of Christians from all over India and abroad. GNM is in Nagaland with a team of 170 people from Korea.
Source: Morung Express