“Controverting people who seemed to get involved in heresy would be advantageous since it not only changes their mind but also makes gift of money”.

The problem of conversion education in our lives.

“Controverting people who seemed to get involved in heresy would be advantageous since it not only changes their mind but also makes gift of money”.

It's been a year from that experience,
Last year in August, I went to my sister's house because of my father's birthday. It's been always on weekends to celebrate his birthday. However, last year, my family forced me to come to celebrate his birthday on Thursday. Among seven daughters, only family of mine made vacation days for his birthday and arrived there on Wednesday. On the purpose to go to swimming pool after having breakfast , we started to go there. On Thursday morning, because one of my children got hurt on his eye, I tried to go to eye doctor. Strangely, my sister and my husband strongly recommend me to take her car even though we live on the opposite direction from there. Even though her kindness for me at that time seemed kind of weired to me, I accepted her recommend and took her car. However, after we stopped by eye doctor, they went some other place with arguing that ' I gotta go to some place because of my business' and took all of my family. Since I felt curious about this, I asked where are they going now. But they answered to me that ' I will drop you at swimming pool after I met some people for my business for some minutes.'
But, after few minutes, it was a church where I arrived. I didn't get out of car and said ' do your business'. But after few seconds, a minister and his wife came to me and asked me to drink a tea for a while. Since I didn't have much time to spend like that, I asked to my family to leave here as fast as we can. However, my husband and my sister.

I said I will not do that. Because there is a freedom of religion in Korea and although I've been in Sinchonji for 4 years, I've been lived frugal life to educate my three kids and buy our house by paying back our debts. So I was very upset by the fact that why did they force me to convert my religious faith.

They forcefully took my cellphone and bag. After jostling with them, I finally pushed them out of door and closed the door. When I looked around the room, I could find out my sister's cell phone so I called to Police officers. After a while, 2 police officer came to us and said “This is not my section so I will call to them.” So they called to other 4 police officers and they came to us. My sister explained me as one who is mentally irritated because of heresy and said this heresy destroyed my family and kept making discords in family.

I appealed to police officers and ride on the police car. And I said to them “ if you take me to bus station, I take care of myself in any method.” But, police officers said to me like just take off at the car and didn't take sides with me. Even though I strongly urged that I don't want to take conversion education and even said to police officers that “ are you guys going to take care of my life?” near the church, 6 of them didn't helped me at all and just went back to their office. Even though I struggled to escape from them with stamping my husband's chest with my shoes, it didn't work and my strength was almost gone. Since all my three children were watching that scene, my heart was broken. The Minister's couple was just looking on as specters when my husband and older sister are taking me. Whenever I tried to escape from them,then the couple dissuaded me from where they kept distance from me.

13 years of marriage and 4 years of life in Sinchonji. Even though my husband knew that I went to Sinchonji education center for 6 months and tried to persuade me to not go there, he stopped to do that because of my stubbornness.


Even though I heard that if people got involved in heresy they will destroy their family by wasting a lot of time and money, since there was no problem at all, I never imagined the conversion education because I educated my 3 children well and worked for my family a lot.

After this accident, since I saw the text message of my husband which showed that he wired money to minister's account, I could know that these people already planned the conversion education for me. And my 82 years old father could not see other 5 daughters at his birthday because of me.

Also, since my husband have been heard about slanders from minister K who criticized Sinchonji without evidences, I think he started to consider Sinchonji as a hateful place where I should not be involved.

What is the religious conversion? It is conversing own religion from one to another such as Buddhism to Christian or Christan to Buddhism. Then which God should I have to believe if I change from Sinchonji which believe Jesus Christ and God.

With the Minister's flattery to my husband such as “if your wife got conversion education just for 3 days, she would deny conversion education and she would not go to Sinchonji again” and his lies with bold-faced that he didn't get payed with his conversion education, I really wanted to get out of that shameful place.

When I stand up with thinking that I would go to hospital if I hit by the car, since my sister and my husband were watching me, I came back about 3 o'clock after I agreed to got conversion education at my sister's house and by ending the long quarrels.

Since I thought it will be better to fall down by starving, I got conversion education without lunch and supper. But the content that he said to me was full of slanders and personal remarks of Sinchonji's Chairman who I really respect. I felt really upset and also pitiful about the minister who do the conversion education because of the money.

I could remember what Minister Mr.Jin said few months ago that “ If we adversise that we could educate who fall in heresy, this will attract family members who knows about their religious lives. Therefore, learn the conversion education. People would not come to common churches in these days.”

I was so upset about their thoughts that 'conversion education can make both money and religious conversion'

The conversion education was not endurable. Also, even though it was supposed to be there for just 3days, I could know that was lie when I heard “it depends on you. If you realize your selfwell, it won't take long time. But if you do not, it will take more than 3 days.”


The sadness from my husband's attitude which kept ignored me in front of minister couple even though we've been live for 13 years and the firmness of my religious view from Sinchonji reminded me how the minister K is egregious person and made me not to forgive him who ruined my family lives which were usually happy and bright before this education. Also I still believe that my decision to go to Sinchonji for 5years was best thing ever in my 20 years of Christian life at age 40 because I could know the difference.

Even though I went to hospital because of bruises after I left my older sister’s house, I had to leave hospital because not only I wanted to see my children but also I was chocked with sorrow. So I went to my younger sister's house.

After that happening, even though I tried to talk with my husband, the answer was always same. He still wanted to me to have remaining three days of conversion education. Also, I could see my self treated as a silly mother who just left her children.

I wasn't really able to go to sleep because I kept thinking about my children, the eldest boy who is in 6th grade of elementary school, second boy who is in 2nd grade of elementary school and my youngest daughter who has pretty eyes and just became 4 years old.

I stayed most of nights with crying because of conversion education ministers who destroyed my family by deceiving my husband with lies; who has been devoted to our family with a lot of care. And again he even had no trouble before he heard minister's fabrications about Sinchonji.

My husband kept not coming to home and stayed at my elder sister's home by making our children as hostages even though we didn't bring enough clothes because we supposed to stay their just for one day. And even he kept going to Minister K's church.

Even though I asked to him to take our children back, since I really wanted to see my children, he refused me to see my children by saying that I left my elder sister's house by myself. Finally, my younger sister, who've been watching my sadness, suggested me to take our children back secretly. As a result, since we took my children back to my home, my husband came back. However, I was so furious about his insults including clapping my faces and hitting while my children were watching that scenes.

I don't think that there was some problem in educating my three kids and managing my family well. However, my husband is still missing that education even though he took money and my bank account.

Whenever I remember that moment, it makes me goosebump because of the memory of that horror. However, the even worst thing is that my kids watched all things including violation which my husband and the minister committed.

Moreover, since conversion education minister educated my husband about fabricated informations about Sinchonji, I really could not forgive these ministers who basically inspired wrong concepts and informations.

I'm 40 years old now. And I clearly able to distinguish and know which one is right or wrong. If Sinchonji is the group that promotes divorce, confinement and violation, I would not like to go that kind group again.

However, according to my 15 years of religious experience, I don't have any doubt of my beliefs toward this group.

The Ministers who cause destruction of family and aim making money under the slogan of conversion education should be disappeared in this world.

Since everybody has the freedom of religion and takes responsibility about its own decision, I think these sort of people, now committing abuses of human rights, should be punished.

I hope my kids to not remember the shocks from that moment again. Even though that incident made me to think about having divorce, I calm myself because that would not be a best way to solve the problem.

I, again ,think that this kind of accident,which caused by conversion education pastors who destroy family, promote divorces and deprive happiness of children, should not happen again.

I really hope that there will be no more family which suffer from conversion education like as us.