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Charitable Relief
[Christian Life]Charitable relief (Korean gujae, 救濟) is the work of helping neighbors who are poor, sick, or affected by disaster through material aid and personal care. In Korean churches it is carried out through relief budgets, relief offerings, and charitable sharing events.
Korea Food for the Hungry International
[Institutions]Korea Food for the Hungry International (publicly known as Hope Friends KFHI) is an international relief and development nongovernmental organization (NGO) founded in 1989 on Christian principles. Under the motto "Bread and the Gospel," it carries out overseas relief, domestic welfare programs, and the sending of professional missionaries.
World Vision
[Institutions]World Vision is an international Christian relief and development nongovernmental organization. It began in 1950, during the Korean War, when the American missionary Bob Pierce and Korean church leaders, including the Rev. Han Kyung-chik, began helping war orphans and widows.
Good Neighbors
[Institutions]Good Neighbors is a South Korean international relief and development NGO (non-governmental organization) founded in 1991 by Il-ha Lee under the name Korea Neighbors' Love Society (Hanguk Iutsaranghoe). It carries out both child rights protection programs in South Korea and development cooperation programs overseas.
Collection for the Church in Jerusalem
[Bible]The collection for the church in Jerusalem was a relief effort in which the apostle Paul gathered offerings from Gentile churches in Macedonia, Achaia, and elsewhere in order to deliver them to the poor saints of the Jerusalem church.
Seven Deacons
[Bible]The Seven Deacons were seven men chosen by the early church in Jerusalem to ensure the fair distribution of relief. They included Stephen and Philip, and their appointment is commonly regarded as the origin of the office of deacon.
Nicolas
[People]Nicolas was one of the seven men chosen by the church in Jerusalem in Acts 6 to oversee the distribution of relief. He was a native of Antioch who had been a proselyte to Judaism.
Missionary
[Church Offices]A missionary is a person whom a church or mission organization sends to another region or culture to proclaim the gospel and to carry out work such as church planting, education, medical care, and relief.
Stephen
[People]Stephen was a worker in the early church in Jerusalem who appears in the Book of Acts. Chosen as one of the seven men entrusted with the distribution of relief, he was stoned to death after addressing the council and is commonly called the first Christian martyr.
2 Corinthians 8:13–15
[Bible Verses]A passage in which the apostle Paul, urging the collection for the church in Jerusalem, explains that its purpose is not to burden one party but to bring about "equality" among believers. It is frequently cited in discussions of sharing and relief among churches.
History of The Salvation Army in Korea
[History]The history of The Salvation Army in Korea dates from 1908, when the British officer Robert Hoggard (Korean name Heo Ga-du) arrived in Seoul. Alongside evangelism, The Salvation Army in Korea has carried out poor relief and the Red Kettle fundraising campaign.
Korean Church Service Corps
[Institutions]The Korean Church Service Corps (Korean abbreviation: Hangyobong) is an interdenominational Protestant service organization that grew out of the joint cleanup work churches carried out after the 2007 Taean oil spill. Its work centers on disaster relief and assistance to neighbors in need.
Church Bazaar
[Christian Life]A church bazaar is a church event at which members sell donated or handmade goods and food, using the proceeds for relief, missions, or church projects. It is also known as a church sale.
The Korean War and the Church
[History]This article covers the losses suffered by Korean Protestantism during the Korean War (1950–1953) and its responses to them. It addresses the changes the war brought to the Korean church, including the deaths of believers and the destruction of churches, refugee flight and relief work, the establishment of the military chaplaincy, and the division of the Presbyterian Church.
Widow
[Bible]A woman whose husband has died. The Old Testament law designated widows, along with orphans and sojourners, as people to be protected. In the New Testament, widows appear both as recipients of the early church's relief and care and as examples of faith.
Elisabeth Johanna Shepping
[People]Elisabeth Johanna Shepping (Korean name Seo Seo-pyeong, 徐舒平; 1880–1934) was a German-born American nurse missionary of the Southern Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in the United States). She arrived in Korea in 1912 and carried out medical work, women's education, and relief for the poor, primarily in Gwangju.
Henry Dodge Appenzeller
[People]Henry Dodge Appenzeller (1889–1953) was an American Methodist missionary born in Seoul. He served for about twenty years as the fifth principal of Pai Chai Haktang, the school founded by his father, Henry Appenzeller, and led relief work during the Korean War.
Women's Evangelistic Society
[Organization & Polity]A Women's Evangelistic Society (yeojeondohoe) is a self-governing association formed by the women members of a church for evangelism, missions, and service. In Methodist churches and some other denominations, it is called a Women's Missionary Society (yeoseongyohoe).
2 Corinthians 9:6–8
[Bible Verses]In this passage Paul uses the image that one reaps as one sows to urge the church in Corinth, as it prepared its collection for the saints in Jerusalem, to give gladly rather than under compulsion. It is frequently cited in sermons on giving and is also invoked in debates over tithing and the prosperity gospel.
Martyrdom of Stephen
[Bible]The martyrdom of Stephen was the stoning of Stephen, one of the seven men appointed to serve in the early Jerusalem church, after he preached before the council. It is recorded in Acts 6–7.