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• World Mission Society Church of God

  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.

• Urban Industrial Mission

  Urban Industrial Mission was a mission movement that Korean Protestants began among factory workers in the late 1950s. It initially focused on evangelizing workers, but in the 1970s it became a movement for workers' rights.

• Industrial Mission

  Industrial Mission refers to the missionary work that Korean Protestants carried out among factory workers beginning in the late 1950s. It began as evangelism in factories, but in the 1970s it developed into a movement advocating for workers' rights.

• JOY Mission

  JOY Mission (Korean: 죠이선교회, also written 조이선교회) is an interdenominational university student mission organization begun in 1958 by Korean university students who gathered on their own initiative. It carries out evangelism and discipleship on university campuses.

• Paidion Mission

  Paidion Mission is a mission organization for children and the next generation, founded in 1975 by students at Chongshin University. Its principal work includes developing church school curricula, training teachers, and producing Vacation Bible School materials and children's worship albums.

• Youth With A Mission Korea (Yesu Jeondodan)

  Yesu Jeondodan (YWAM Korea) is an interdenominational mission organization founded in 1973 by David E. Ross, an American Southern Presbyterian missionary, out of a university student fellowship. Since 1980 it has operated as the Korean branch of the international mission organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM).

• Christian Gospel Mission

  The Christian Gospel Mission is a religious organization founded by Jung Myung-seok and widely known as JMS. Several Protestant denominations in South Korea have declared it heretical, and its founder has twice received final prison sentences for sex crimes against female members.

• World Evangelization Mission Association

  The World Evangelization Mission Association is an evangelistic movement led by Ryu Kwang-su and is also known as the "Darakbang (Upper Room) Evangelism Movement." Beginning in the mid-1990s, a number of Korean Protestant denominations designated it as heretical or pseudo-Christian, and controversy arose in 2013 when the Christian Council of Korea lifted its heresy designation.

• Men's Mission Society

  The Men's Mission Society (Namseongyohoe) is an organization within local Korean Protestant churches through which adult male members pursue fellowship, service, and mission support. Depending on the denomination and congregation, it is also called the Men's Evangelistic Society (Namjeondohoe).

• Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery

  The Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery is a foreign cemetery on the hill above Yanghwa Ferry in Hapjeong-dong, Mapo District, Seoul. It began in 1890 with the burial of the medical missionary John Heron. It holds the graves of missionaries who worked in Korea and their families, as well as diplomats, journalists, and others.

• Missio Dei

  Missio Dei (Latin for "the mission of God") is a concept in the theology of mission holding that the agent of mission is not the church but the triune God, and that the church is a community sent to participate in that mission.

• Christian School

  A Christian school is a private school founded by a Christian body, such as a Protestant or Catholic organization, for the purposes of mission and education. Such schools are commonly called mission schools. In Korea, Christian schools began with the schools that missionaries opened in the late nineteenth century.

• Matthew 10

  Matthew 10 contains the missionary discourse Jesus delivered when He called the twelve disciples, gave them power, and sent them to the cities of Israel. It goes on to foretell persecution, encourage the disciples not to fear, set out the cost of discipleship, and promise a reward to those who receive them.

• Elisabeth Elliot

  Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) was an American Protestant missionary and Christian author. After her husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in Ecuador, she went to live in a village of the Waorani people who had killed him and shared the gospel with them. She wrote numerous books, including Through Gates of Splendor.

• Robert Jermain Thomas

  Robert Jermain Thomas was a Welsh missionary of the London Missionary Society. In 1866 he sailed up the Taedong River as an interpreter aboard the American merchant ship General Sherman and was killed at Pyongyang. Korean Protestants commonly regard him as their first martyr.

• John Ross

  John Ross (1842–1915) was a missionary sent to Manchuria, China, by the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Working with Korean collaborators, he published the first Korean New Testament, *Yesu Seonggyo Jeonseo* (1887).

• Cyril and Methodius

  Cyril and Methodius were ninth-century missionary brothers from Thessalonica in the Byzantine Empire. They introduced worship in the Slavic language in Great Moravia and created the Glagolitic alphabet, earning them the title "Apostles to the Slavs."

• Open Doors

  Open Doors is an interdenominational international mission organization that Brother Andrew of the Netherlands began in 1955. It supports churches and believers in regions where Christians face persecution and publishes an annual ranking of Christian persecution, the World Watch List.

• Sabbatical

  A sabbatical is a period during which a pastor or missionary, after serving for a set length of time, steps away from ministry to rest, study, pursue further training, and recharge. The term is taken from the Old Testament ordinances concerning the sabbatical year.

• Robert Morrison

  Robert Morrison (1782–1834) was the first Protestant missionary to China, sent by the London Missionary Society in 1807. He devoted himself to translating the Bible into Classical Chinese and to compiling a Chinese–English dictionary.