David YonggiCho was a SouthKorean Pentecostal Pastor. He was the founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church, which he started in a tent with 5 people, which eventually became the world's largest congregation, with a membership of 830,000. The young pastor became depressed and grew uncertain of his calling. Up to that point, YonggiCho had believed that he had already “graduated” from the “school of the Holy Spirit.” He believed that he could build the church through his own efforts. David YonggiCho, pastor of the world’s largest megachurch, died Tuesday morning, his church said in a press release. Cho is the founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, SouthKorea and spent decades spreading the gospel in that country. In these times, SouthKorea was in the reconstructive phase after the 1950-53 Korean War. David YonggiCho revived the church and increased its influence, converting the hugely Confucian country to embrace a new faith. Declining memberships and church scandals. Pastor David YonggiCho, a cofounder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church (Assemblies of God) inSouthKorea is dead. The popular minister of the gospel died on Tuesday morning at the age of 85 after battling with complications from a stroke. David YonggiCho was a Korean religious leader and Christian evangelist who cofounded (1958) the Yoido Full Gospel Church (YFGC) in Seoul and led the megachurch until 2008. Six years later he was convicted of embezzling money from the YFGC. David YonggiCho, founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, passed into eternity.Through challenges and hardships, PastorCho always remained a man of prayer and sincere faith. A lot of ministers from Russia have spiritually matured on PastorCho’s books and sermons.