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321 articles found for “missions”

• 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.

• Missionary Journeys of Paul

  [Bible]

  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

  [History]

  The missional church is an ecclesiology, and a movement grounded in it, that regards the church as a community sent into the world. It 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.

• World Mission Society Church of God

  [Heresies & Cults]

  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

  [History]

  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

  [History]

  Industrial Mission was the missionary work that Korean Protestant churches carried out among factory workers beginning in the late 1950s. It began as evangelism in factories, but in the 1970s it became a movement advocating for workers' rights.

• JOY Mission

  [Institutions]

  JOY Mission is an interdenominational university student mission organization in South Korea, begun in 1958 by Korean university students who gathered on their own initiative. It carries out evangelism and discipleship on university campuses.

• Paidion Mission

  [Institutions]

  Paidion Mission is a South Korean 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)

  [Institutions]

  Youth With A Mission Korea (YWAM Korea), known in Korean as Yesu Jeondodan, is an interdenominational mission organization founded in 1973 by David E. Ross, an American Southern Presbyterian missionary, from 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

  [Heresies & Cults]

  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

  [Heresies & Cults]

  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. Controversy arose in 2013 when the Christian Council of Korea lifted its heresy designation.

• Men's Mission Society

  [Organization & Polity]

  The Men's Mission Society is an organization within local congregations of 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.

• Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery

  [History]

  The Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery is a foreign cemetery on the hill above Yanghwa Ferry in Hapjeong-dong, Mapo District, Seoul, South Korea. 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

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  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

  [History]

  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 often called mission schools. In Korea, Christian schools began with the schools opened by missionaries in the late nineteenth century.

• Matthew 10

  [Bible]

  Matthew 10 records 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

  [People]

  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

  [People]

  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

  [People]

  John Ross (1842–1915) was a missionary to Manchuria, China, sent 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

  [History]

  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."