WHAT IS UBF?

University Bible Fellowship (UBF) is a nondenominational student organization dedicated to the task of campus evangelism. Our main work is helping students to study the Bible and live according to its teachings.

We study the Bible on a one-to-one basis and in group sessions by observing and interpreting the text (trying to see it from the author's point of view), and applying the lessons to our own lives.

We offer a worship service on Sundays at 11:00 a.m., and many opportunities for spiritual growth and discipleship through testimony writing, lectures, music and drama programs, and conferences.

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STATEMENT OF FAITH

1. We believe that the Bible is inspired by God; that it is the only infallible, authoritative word of God, and our final authority in faith and practice.
2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in his virgin birth, in his sinless life, in his miracles, in his vicarious and atoning death through his shed blood, in his bodily resurrection, and in his ascension to the right hand of the Father.
4. We believe that all people have been under the bondage and power of sin since the fall of Adam, and deserve the judgment and wrath of God.
5. We believe that salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ alone, through grace alone, and that regeneration by the Holy Spirit is necessary to enter the kingdom of God.
6. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
7. We believe that the Church is the body of Christ and that all Christians are members of it. We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers.
8. We believe that the primary task of the Church is to preach the gospel to all creation, and make disciples of all nations.
9. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
10. We believe that Jesus Christ will come again in power and glory to judge the living and the dead.

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HISTORY

The University Bible Fellowship was founded on September 1, 1961 in the midst of national turmoil following the 4/19 nation-wide demonstration and the 5/16 coup d'etat. At the time, Korean college students who were supposed to be the future leaders of the country fell into deep despair due to the social instability and the deteriorating value system of the times. At that time, Dr. Samuel Lee (1931-2002) was ministering to college students in the Daein Church, in Kwangju after graduating from a Presbyterian seminary. Dr. Lee met Missionary Sarah Barry who volunteered to come to Korea to help this war-devastated country. She was sent by the Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.-Southern, and is currently working at the Chicago U.B.F. as a world representative.

They shared a common belief that the best way to help Korea and the world was to plant faith and hope for the future in the hearts of college students with a life-giving spirit, that they would grow to be future leaders. To this end, they began to pray with the prayer topic, "Bible Korea, World Mission," and studied the Bible with college students. This was the beginning of the University Bible Fellowship.

For further information, please visit the Chicago UBF website, from which these paragraphs were taken .

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ACTIVITIES

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