Far from home, welcome home.

Rev. Inho Baik spent twenty-nine years teaching history at Sogang University. But in 2002, while still a lay deacon, he began leading BEE seminars for believers in Vietnam - and was so moved by Christians who kept their faith under persecution that the teacher came home changed. He enrolled in seminary during a sabbatical, was ordained in 2011, and spent every vacation for two decades teaching the Word across Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Nepal, Kenya, and Côte d'Ivoire.

Retirement came in February 2022, and with it, closed doors - paths to Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal both blocked. Then in June 2023, on the very day he returned from a mission trip to Vietnam, the phone rang: would he start an international church for the foreign students of Sogang? He took it as God's call. Three fellow Christian professors - colleagues in the faculty fellowship since 1995 - pledged themselves alongside him, and on 13 August 2023 ISC-Sogang held its founding worship service, without a single student in the room.

"It is not a church I started; it is a church begun because God sovereignly called - and so God Himself will be responsible for it."

Within three weeks the first two students had found their way in - one from Kenya, one from Japan. The family has been growing, nation by nation, ever since. The debt once owed to the missionaries who carried the gospel to Korea as foreigners, he says, is now being repaid - to the foreign students who have come to this land.

Caleb Jules is a gospel singer and songwriter who desires to glorify God and serve people through music and gospel sharing. Originally from Rwanda, he studied Christian Community Leadership with Business at African Bible University in Uganda before earning his M.Div. at Chongshin Theological Seminary here in Korea.

Along the way he has served wherever the church needed him - children's ministry, worship ministry, evangelism, and discipleship - across three countries and two continents. Through his music and his ministry, Caleb seeks to honor God, proclaim the gospel, and encourage people to know and follow Jesus Christ.

Through music and ministry - to honor God, proclaim the gospel, and help people follow Jesus.