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Homer Hulbert
[People]Homer Hulbert (1863–1949) was an American Methodist missionary and educator. He came to Joseon in 1886 as an English teacher at the Yugyeong Gongwon (Royal English School). He later promoted Hangul, the Korean alphabet, engaged in journalism and writing, and supported the Korean independence movement, notably by assisting the dispatch of secret envoys to The Hague in 1907.
John Nevius
[People]John Livingston Nevius (1829–1893) was an American missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian) who served in China for about forty years. The mission methods he presented during an 1890 visit to Korea became established as the "Nevius Mission Policy" and laid the foundation of the early Presbyterian Church in Korea.
Clement Owen
[People]Clement Owen (1867–1909) was an ordained minister and medical missionary sent to Korea by the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States. Known in Korea as O Gi-won, he worked mainly from Mokpo and Gwangju, carrying out medical mission work and itinerant evangelism in South Jeolla Province.
Arthur Pierson
[People]Arthur Pierson (1837–1911) was an American Presbyterian minister, Bible teacher, and missions advocate. During a 1910 visit to Korea, he promised to establish a Bible school. After his death, the Pierson Memorial Bible School, the forerunner of Pyeongtaek University, was founded in fulfillment of that promise.
Wiley Forsythe
[People]Wiley Hamilton Forsythe (1873–1918) was an American medical missionary sent to Korea by the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern Presbyterian Church); his Korean name was Bo Wi-ryeom. In 1909 he brought a woman with leprosy whom he had found collapsed by the roadside to Gwangju, an act widely regarded as the beginning of ministry to people with Hansen's disease in the Gwangju region.
Student Volunteer Movement
[History]The Student Volunteer Movement (SVM) was an interdenominational student missionary movement that began in 1886 at a student Bible conference at Mount Hermon in the United States. It recruited college students as foreign missionaries and, under the watchword "The Evangelization of the World in This Generation," is reported to have sent out more than twenty thousand missionaries.
1977 National Evangelization Crusade
[History]The 1977 National Evangelization Crusade was an interdenominational Protestant mass evangelistic rally held in the summer of 1977 at Yeouido Plaza in Seoul, South Korea. It is known as a large united gathering that Korean churches prepared and led on their own, without foreign speakers.
World Christian Population
[History]The world Christian population is an estimate of the number of people worldwide who identify themselves as Christians or are affiliated with a church. As of 2020 it stood at roughly 2.3 to 2.5 billion, and over the course of the twentieth century its center shifted from Europe to Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Korean Hymnal Society
[Institutions]The Korean Hymnal Society is an interdenominational body established in 1981 to publish and manage a hymnal shared by multiple Korean Protestant denominations. It published the Unified Hymnal in 1983 and the 21st Century Hymnal in 2006.
CBMC of Korea
[Institutions]CBMC of Korea (Korea Christian Business Men's Committee) is an interdenominational lay organization of Christian businesspeople and professionals who share the gospel with their workplace colleagues and help one another grow in faith. It is the Korean affiliate of CBMC International and is registered as an incorporated association.
YMCA of Korea
[Institutions]The YMCA of Korea is an interdenominational Christian youth and civic movement that began in Seoul in 1903 as the Hwangseong Christian Young Men's Association. Local YMCAs throughout the country make up the National Council of YMCAs of Korea.
Voice of the Martyrs Korea
[Institutions]Voice of the Martyrs Korea is an interdenominational mission organization that assists Christians persecuted for their faith, especially members of North Korea's underground church, and makes their stories known to churches in South Korea. It shares the lineage of The Voice of the Martyrs, the international organization begun by the Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand.
University Bible Fellowship
[Institutions]University Bible Fellowship (UBF) is an interdenominational campus mission organization founded in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1961 by Lee Chang-woo and Sarah Barry, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the Southern Presbyterian Church). It is known for one-to-one Bible study and overseas university missions.
Christian Medical Fellowship Korea
[Institutions]Christian Medical Fellowship Korea (CMF) is an interdenominational Protestant faith movement of medical professionals, including physicians, dentists, and practitioners of Korean medicine, together with university students in medical fields. It began at a national student retreat in 1980 and was formally established under its Korean name, Hanguk Nugahoe (Korean Luke Society), in 1982.
Day-Age Theory
[Doctrine & Theology]The day-age theory is an interpretation of creation that reads each "day" (Hebrew yom) of Genesis 1 not as a twenty-four-hour period but as a long age of indeterminate length. It is one of the principal forms of old-earth creationism.
Theology of Glory
[Doctrine & Theology]The theology of glory refers to an outlook holding that human beings can know God and attain to God through human reason, merit, and success. Martin Luther used the term critically, setting it against the theology of the cross.
Worship Band
[Doctrine & Theology]A worship band (also called a praise band) is an ensemble of singers and players of popular-music instruments, such as guitar, keyboard, bass, and drums, that leads congregational praise in worship. In Korean churches it is commonly called a praise team.
Jeremiah 6
[Bible]Jeremiah 6 is a prophecy warning that an enemy from the north will besiege Jerusalem. It rebukes a people who refuse to repent, along with the prophets and priests who offer false comfort by saying "Peace."
Ezekiel 16
[Bible]Ezekiel 16 portrays Jerusalem as an infant abandoned in an open field. The LORD takes her into covenant and raises her to the rank of queen, but she becomes an unfaithful wife. Through this image the chapter pronounces judgment on Jerusalem's idolatry. It closes with God's promise to establish an everlasting covenant and restore her.
1 Corinthians 9
[Bible]In this chapter Paul affirms that as an apostle he has the right to receive support from the church but explains that he has not used that right, for the sake of the gospel. He then urges self-discipline, drawing a comparison with the self-control of runners in a race.