SuYeon Yoon

SuYeon Yoon’s current research explores three main areas: forming ecclesiology, becoming a more biblical church, and understanding global Christianity. SuYeon intends to demonstrate that the church influence is not just North American churches influencing and expanding into Africa, Latin America, and Asia but the opposite is true as well. Through the NARC (New Apostolic Reformation Church) of these countries, North American churches may have something to acquire and connect to in the global Christian movement. Her research attempts to build global solidarity, to build minority communities of North America in their awareness that they are in fact influencers and reveal the interconnectedness of diverse communities. Moreover, by addressing this young and upwardly mobile church movement, the impact of her research is likely to be revealing.

As a fourth-generation Korea born Christian, when SuYeon was growing up, she used to hear about her great-grandfather’s story of how he played a key role in the first American missionary in Pyeong-Yang, North Korea. His life inspired SuYeon, and it eventually led her to become a missionary with YWAM in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Her work there then led her to seek a role as a consultant or advisor to both international mission organizations and churches throughout India, the United States, and South Korea. Fast forward many years later, with a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies/Missiology in hand, she continues to pursue a path that would allow her to utilize her expertise and passion for serving God through her lectures and research.

She is the author of Toward a Twenty-First Century Biblical, Apostolic Church: A Critique of the New Apostolic Reformation Church in North America (Pickwick Publications, 2019).