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• United Christian Churches of KoreaInstitutions

  The United Christian Churches of Korea (UCCK; Korean abbreviation Hangyochong) is an ecumenical body of Protestant denominations in South Korea, launched in 2017 on the foundation of the Council of Korean Church Denominational Heads. Its members are denominations rather than individual congregations, and they include major Presbyterian, Methodist, and Pentecostal denominations, among others.

• Industrial MissionHistory

  Industrial Mission was the missionary work that Korean Protestant churches carried out among factory workers beginning in the late 1950s. It began as evangelism in factories, but in the 1970s it became a movement advocating for workers' rights.

• Joint Easter ServiceWorship & Rites

  A joint Easter service is a worship service held on Easter at which multiple denominations and churches gather together, often at dawn. In Korea, the first such service is reported to have been held in 1947 on Namsan in Seoul.

• Christian Literature Society of KoreaInstitutions

  The Christian Literature Society of Korea is a Protestant publishing house and interchurch ecumenical body that traces its origins to the Korean Religious Tract Society, founded in 1890 by missionaries in Korea. It is regarded as the oldest Protestant publisher in Korea.

• World Mission Society Church of GodHeresies & Cults

  The World Mission Society Church of God is a religious group that split from an organization founded by Ahn Sahng-hong in Busan in 1964. Its members believe Ahn Sahng-hong to be Christ at His Second Coming and Zahng Gil-jah to be "God the Mother." Major Korean Protestant denominations and ecumenical bodies have designated the group as heretical.

• Athanasian CreedDoctrine & Theology

  The Athanasian Creed is a confession of faith of the Western church that sets out the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation of Christ. Together with the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed, it is known as one of the "three ecumenical creeds."

• Revised Common LectionaryWorship & Rites

  The Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) is a table of Scripture readings that assigns the biblical texts to be read in worship on each Sunday and festival according to a three-year cycle. It was published in 1992 by an ecumenical consultation of North American denominations.

• Lesslie NewbiginPeople

  Lesslie Newbigin (1909–1998) was a British missionary, theologian, and leader in the ecumenical movement. He served as a missionary in India and as a bishop of the Church of South India. By regarding Western society as a mission field in need of re-evangelization, he laid the foundation for missional ecclesiology.

• Edinburgh Missionary ConferenceHistory

  The Edinburgh Missionary Conference was a meeting of representatives of Protestant missionary societies held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from June 14 to 23, 1910. It discussed ways of cooperating in world mission and is commonly regarded as the starting point of the modern ecumenical movement.

• Institutional PastorChurch Offices

  An institutional pastor is a minister who does not serve a local church but instead works in a Christian institution such as a denominational headquarters, school, hospital, media organization, or mission agency. The title is used chiefly in the constitutions of Presbyterian denominations.

• John 17:21Bible Verses

  John 17:21 is a verse from the prayer Jesus offered to the Father before his arrest, in which he asks that those who believe "all may be one" so that the world may believe. It serves as a motto of the ecumenical movement, and debate has centered on whether this unity should be understood as spiritual or as visible and institutional.