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John "Han-heum" Oak. (born December 5, 1938) Rev. John Han-heum Oak was one who dedicated his whole life to discipleship. A pioneer in the field of church centered discipleship training, he took discipleship training which used to be exclusive to mission organizations and applied it into the local church context by creatively reinterpreting it based on the ecclesiology of Reformed theology.

After planting SaRang Community Church in 1978, he singularly pressed on with his ‘One Soul’ Philosophy in raising up lay leaders within the church. SaRang Community Church was the first successful case where applying discipleship training in the local church brought abundant harvest. Until today it is considered a model to many local and international churches. For more than twenty years, the Call to Awaken the Laity Seminar (CAL) which began in 1986 have been considered as a very impactful seminar that provides both theoretical and on-the-spot training to pastors who hold on to discipleship as the essence of pastoring.