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• Presbyterian Church of Chosen

  The Presbyterian Church of Chosen was the first General Assembly of Korean Presbyterianism, organized in Pyongyang in September 1912 by seven presbyteries. It was renamed the Presbyterian Church in Korea in 1949, and many Presbyterian denominations today regard it as their common root.

• Edinburgh Missionary Conference

  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.

• Samuel Austin Moffett

  Samuel Austin Moffett (1864–1939) was an American Northern Presbyterian missionary whose Korean name was Ma Po-sam-yeol (馬布三悅). He planted churches with Pyongyang as his center and founded the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pyongyang, serving as its first president.

• Horace Allen

  Horace Newton Allen (1858–1932) was an American medical missionary sent by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian) and later a diplomat. He is regarded as the first Protestant missionary to reside and work in Korea, and he proposed the founding of Gwanghyewon (later Jejungwon), Korea's first Western-style hospital.

• Lesslie Newbigin

  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.

• Independent Presbytery of Korea

  The Independent Presbytery (Dongnohoe) was the first presbytery of the Korean Presbyterian Church. It was organized on September 17, 1907, at Jangdaehyeon Church in Pyongyang. At its first meeting the first seven Korean ministers were ordained, and until the General Assembly was established in 1912, it served as the highest governing body of the entire Korean Presbyterian Church.

• Korean National Christian Council

  The Korean National Christian Council (Joseon Yesugyo Yeonhap Gonguihoe) was a Protestant cooperative body organized in September 1924 at Saemoonan Church in Seoul. Korean Presbyterian and Methodist churches, foreign mission boards, and Christian organizations took part in it, and it is regarded as the parent body of today's National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK).

• Church Finance

  Church finance refers to the work and systems by which a church manages the money it receives through offerings and other sources, prepares and carries out budgets, and closes its accounts. The topic includes church accounting and financial disclosure.

• William Baird

  William Martyn Baird (1862–1931), known in Korea as Bae Wi-ryang, was a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). He took part in early mission work in the Busan and Daegu regions and in 1897 founded Soongsil Academy in Pyongyang, for which he is known as the founder of Soongsil University and Soongsil Middle and High Schools.

• Malcolm Fenwick

  Malcolm C. Fenwick (1863–1935) was a Canadian independent missionary. In 1906 he founded the Church of Christ in Corea (Daehan Gidokgyohoe), the parent body of the Korea Baptist Convention, at Ganggyeong, South Chungcheong Province, and he is regarded as the founder of the Baptist church in Korea.

• Donald McGavran

  Donald Anderson McGavran (1897–1990) was an American missionary to India and a missiologist. He is known as the founder of church growth studies and served as the founding dean of the School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary.

• William D. Reynolds

  William Davis Reynolds (1867–1951), known in Korea as Yi Nul-seo, was a missionary of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States. He took part in translating the Bible into Korean for forty-three years and taught systematic theology at Pyongyang Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

• Lillias Horton Underwood

  Lillias Horton Underwood (1851–1921) was a medical missionary sent by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian Church). She arrived in Korea in 1888, headed the women's department of Jejungwon, and served as physician to Empress Myeongseong. The wife of Horace Underwood, she was also active in women's ministry and writing.

• Sherwood Hall

  Sherwood Hall (1893–1991) was a Canadian Methodist medical missionary born in Seoul. He founded a tuberculosis sanatorium in Haeju, Hwanghae Province, and in 1932 issued Korea's first Christmas seals.

• Annie Baird

  Annie Baird (1864–1916) was an American missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian), known in Korea as An Ae-ri (安愛理). The wife of William Baird (Bae Wi-ryang), she served in Busan and Pyongyang and left a legacy of hymn translations and Korean-language writings.

• Oliver R. Avison

  Oliver R. Avison (1860–1956; Korean name Eo Bi-sin) was a Canadian-born medical missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). He directed Jejungwon, founded Severance Hospital and its medical school, and served as president of Chosun Christian College (Yonhi College).

• Priscilla Studd

  Priscilla Studd (1864–1929) was an Irish-born Protestant missionary. While serving in China she married C. T. Studd, and while her husband worked in Africa she led the British home headquarters of the mission that became the forerunner of WEC International.

• Missionary

  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.

• Missionary Journeys of Paul

  The missionary journeys of Paul were the travels in which Paul, setting out from the church at Antioch, preached the gospel and founded churches throughout Asia Minor, Macedonia, and Achaia. They are recorded in Acts 13–21 and are commonly divided into three journeys.

• Missional Church

  The missional church is an ecclesiology, and a movement grounded in it, that regards the church as a community sent into the world and understands mission not as one of the church's many activities but as its very essence. The term gained wide currency through a book published in North America in 1998.