Origin and Purpose

«But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth»

(Acts 1:8)

    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 those times.

    At that time. Dr. Samuel Lee 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 she is also working in the Chicago U.B.F. They shared a common belief that the best way to help Korea and the world was to plant the in the hearts of the college students with a life-giving spirit, so that they would have faith and hope for the future and grow to be future leaders. So they began to pray with the prayer topic, "Bible Korea, World Mission," and studied the Bible with the college students. This was the beginning of the University Bible Fellowship.

    The University Bible Fellowship is a non-denominational, evangelistic campus organization, focused on raising disciples of Jesus who can live sacrificial lives for the gospel and contribute to society and the nation by preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to college students and the young people. U.B.F. serves world evangelism by raising lay missionaries and sending them throughout the world. For this purpose, U.B.F. teaches the Bible to college students and young people and helps them to live according to the teachings of the Scriptures and to practice the world mission command of Jesus (Act 1:8). The University Bible Fellowship is a mainline evangelical organization affiliated with the National Association of Evangelicals and is dedicated to the task of student evangelism.