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• Youth SundayChristian Life

  Youth Sunday is a commemorative Sunday on which a church prays for its young adult generation and young adults themselves lead worship and events as an expression of their faith.

• Senior Adult DepartmentChristian Life

  The senior adult department is the church department responsible for worship, education, fellowship, and care for older members of the congregation. Its work is also called silver ministry or senior ministry.

• Senior PastorChurch Offices

  A senior pastor is the minister who holds responsibility for a local church and oversees its preaching, sacraments, pastoral care, and administration. The procedures for appointment and the status of the office vary according to each denomination's form of church government.

• Suneung Prayer MeetingChristian Life

  A Suneung prayer meeting is a prayer gathering held by churches in South Korea for students preparing to take the College Scholastic Ability Test (Suneung) and for their families. It is also called a senior-year prayer meeting.

• Pastor EmeritusChurch Offices

  Pastor emeritus is an honorary title that a church confers on a retired pastor who served that congregation for many years, in recognition of that service. The title carries no authority to govern the church; it expresses honor and respect.

• BishopChurch Offices

  A bishop is a senior member of the clergy who oversees a diocese made up of multiple churches and performs the ordination of clergy. The title is used by the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. In Korean, Protestant Bibles and the Methodist Church render the same term with a different word, *gamdok* ("overseer").

• Associate PastorChurch Offices

  An associate pastor is an ordained minister who assists the senior pastor of a congregation with preaching, pastoral visitation, education, administration, and other duties. In Korean Protestant churches, associate pastors, together with evangelists and licentiates, are commonly grouped as "assistant ministers."

• Hereditary Pastoral SuccessionControversies

  Hereditary pastoral succession is the practice of passing a senior pastor's position to the pastor's child or son-in-law. It is also called hereditary pastorate or passing down the pastorate. In Korea, denominations such as the Korean Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap) have prohibited it by church law, and debate over the practice continues.

• Joel OsteenPeople

  Joel Osteen (born 1963) is an American television preacher and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church, a megachurch in Houston, Texas. He is the author of *Your Best Life Now*, which also became widely known in Korea through its Korean translation.

• Installed PastorOrganization & Polity

  An installed pastor, a term used chiefly in Presbyterian churches, is a senior pastor who has been called by a congregation and installed by the presbytery to serve that church without a fixed term. The office is distinguished from that of a temporary (stated) pastor, whose term of service is limited.

• Cooperating PastorChurch Offices

  A cooperating pastor is an ordained pastor who is affiliated with a church or institution and assists the senior pastor in ministry. The title is used mainly in Presbyterian churches, and its conditions of service and standing within the presbytery vary according to each denomination's constitution.

• Pastoral HonorariumOrganization & Polity

  A pastoral honorarium is money that a church pays regularly to its ministers, such as the senior pastor, associate pastors, and evangelists, to support their living. It is often referred to simply as an "honorarium."

• Retirement Age for PastorsControversies

  The retirement age for pastors is the age at which a minister steps down from public duties such as serving as senior pastor. In Korea, most major Protestant denominations have set it at 70, and debate continues over proposals to raise or abolish this age.

• Pastoral RetirementChristian Life

  Pastoral retirement is a pastor's withdrawal from active service in the church, such as the office of senior pastor, either upon reaching the mandatory retirement age or by the pastor's own choice. A pastor who has withdrawn in this way is called a retired pastor.

• Session (Presbyterian)Organization & Polity

  The session is the lowest church court in Presbyterian polity, governing an individual congregation. Composed of the senior pastor and the active ruling elders, it oversees the spiritual life of church members and makes decisions about the operation of the church.

• Representative PrayerWorship & Rites

  Representative prayer is a prayer offered aloud by one person on behalf of the entire congregation during a worship service or gathering. In Korean churches it is usually led by lay officers such as elders, senior deaconesses (kwonsa), and deacons.

• Pastoral CallOrganization & Polity

  A pastoral call is the process by which a church formally invites and receives a minister, such as a senior pastor or associate pastor, according to established procedures. The specific procedures and the body that makes the decision vary with each denomination's system of church government.

• Christian Council of KoreaInstitutions

  The Christian Council of Korea (CCK; Korean abbreviation Hangichong) is an interdenominational body of Korean Protestant denominations founded in 1989 under the leadership of Rev. Han Kyung-chik and other senior conservative church leaders. It was long regarded as the representative organization of conservative Korean Protestantism, but after a series of schisms in the 2010s its major member denominations withdrew.

• Ju Gi-cheolPeople

  Ju Gi-cheol (1897–1944) was a Korean Presbyterian minister during the Japanese colonial period. While serving as senior pastor of Sanjeonghyeon Church in Pyongyang, he steadfastly refused to take part in Shinto shrine worship. He was imprisoned for his refusal and died a martyr in Pyongyang Prison.