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With student movements growing and expanding each year, it is difficult to keep track of all the growth for KCCC USA in every region. Currently, KCCC movement has its strongest presence is in the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas and have launched movements in Chicago, Toronto, Hawaii, Seattle, Virginia, and Atlanta.

The Gethsemane Prayer Movement
In Los Angeles, the KCCC movement is currently led by Dong Whan Kim. Shortly after arriving in America in 1996, he and his wife, Jung Sook Kim, began the "Gethsemane Prayer Movement". This movement involves a weekly prayer meeting held late on Friday evenings. Christians in Korea are well known for their early morning prayer meetings where they gather for prayer as early as 5am. People have said it is the secret to Korea's revival and strength. Tapping into this wisdom, the Gethsemane Prayer Movement challenges students to sacrifice their favorite evening of the week, Friday (normally used for recreation, movies, clubbing, etc.), and use it to seek God's face in prayer. Since its inception, the ministry has grown incredibly as students discover the power of prayer and find ownership over their campus ministries as they gather each Friday. In LA, Gethsemane grew from 20 people praying each week to to over 500 today. In NY, Gethsemane has grown from 4 people to about 150 students each week. Gethsemane movements are also located in San Diego, Toronto, Northern California, Sandiego and new ones are being born each year.

The New York Movement
From 1982 to 1993, the NY KCCC movement enjoyed tremendous revival and growth with attendance at their annual Vision conferences numbering upwards of two thousand. But with very few staff to give leadership to student-lead movements, the NY movement dwindled and in 1997, there were barely a hundred students at the annual Vision Conference. Nevertheless, Yong Won Kang and other NY staff didn't give up on New York and prayed toward the vision of reaching America's toughest and most influential campuses. When Dong Whan Kim opened up GCTC on the west coast (1997), a breakthrough happened as GCTC provided leadership, training and strength to KCCC movements all over America.

In 2001, as the NY ministry saw more and more growth, Dr. Joon Gon Kim (founder of Korea CCC) personally sent Nam Ju Chun to give leadership to the New York KCCC movement. Nam Ju Chun had been the director of the Agape International Training center in the Philippines for many years before being given this new assignment. With Nam Ju Chun's leadership and a new wave of young Korean-American staff, the NY movement now has growing students movements on the following campuses:

  • New York University

  • Columbia University

  • Fashion Institute of Technology

  • Juilliard

  • Hunter College

  • Queens College

  • School of Visual Arts

  • St John's University

  • Rutgers University

  • NJ Institute of Technology

The Los Angeles Movement
For years, LA KCCC also experienced periods of growth and revival but struggled to sustain its campus movements. In 1996, the arrival of Dong Whan and Jung Sook Kim changed everything. Wasting no time, Dong Whan Kim established the Great Commission Training Center (GCTC) in 1997. GCTC is the staff training developed and used by Campus Crusade for Christ. It's style and duration differ from the staff training used by the United States campus ministry. Since its first class of candidates, KCCC USA's GCTC has trained more than sixty full-time staffs.

Los Angeles has the largest population of Koreans in America. Because of that it also has the largest number of Korean-American college students. As the LA movement has grown, it has gone from 80 students at their annual Vision Conference to more than 1000 at their most recent conference. From 1996, Los Angeles movement have expanded from just couple of campuses to more than 20 campuses in the area.

  • Art Center College of Design (Art Center)

  • California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech)

  • California Polytechnical University, Pomona (Cal Poly)

  • California State University, Fullerton (CSUF)

  • California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)

  • California State University, North Ridge (CSUN)

  • Dienza College

  • Diablo Valley College

  • University of California, Berkeley (Cal)

  • University of California, Davis (UCD)

  • University of California, Irvine (UCI)

  • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

  • University of California, Riverside (UCR)

  • University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

  • University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

  • Cerritos College (CC)

  • Cypress College (Cypress)

  • El Camino College (ECC)

  • Glendale Community College (GCC)

  • Pasadena City College (PCC)

  • Santa Monica College (SMC)

  • San Jose State University