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• Scripture Union Korea

  Scripture Union Korea is the Korean branch of Scripture Union (SU), an international mission organization founded in England in 1867. Established in 1972, it is not affiliated with any denomination and is known as the publisher of the quiet time devotional Daily Bible (Maeil Seonggyeong).

• Voice of the Martyrs Korea

  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 the Korean church. It shares the lineage of The Voice of the Martyrs, the international organization begun by the Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand.

• Acts 14

  In this chapter Paul and Barnabas preach in Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe and suffer persecution. They appoint elders in every church, then return to Antioch and report on their first missionary journey.

• Acts 19

  Acts 19 records Paul's stay in Ephesus during his third missionary journey. There he baptizes disciples who had received only John's baptism, teaches for two years in the school of Tyrannus, and faces a riot stirred up by the silversmiths who made shrines of Artemis (Diana).

• Acts 17

  Acts 17 recounts how Paul, during his second missionary journey, preaches the gospel in Thessalonica and Berea and meets opposition, and then, at the Areopagus in Athens, uses the altar "to the unknown God" as a starting point to proclaim the Creator and the resurrection.

• Roberta Winter

  Roberta Winter (1930–2001) was an American Presbyterian missionary. With her husband, Ralph Winter, she served as a missionary in Guatemala, and in 1976 she co-founded the U.S. Center for World Mission to advance mission among unreached people groups.

• Marian Bottomley Hall

  Marian Bottomley Hall was a British-born physician and Methodist medical missionary. During the Japanese colonial period, she worked alongside her husband, Sherwood Hall, in Haeju, Hwanghae Province, providing medical care and taking part in efforts to combat tuberculosis.

• Mary Leyburn Junkin

  Mary Leyburn Junkin (1866–1952) was an American Southern Presbyterian missionary. With her husband, William Junkin (Korean name Jeon Wi-ryeom), she came to Korea in 1892 as a member of the "Seven Pioneers," the first missionary party sent to Korea by the Southern Presbyterian Church, and served in Seoul, Gunsan, and Jeonju.

• Mattie Wilcox Noble

  Mattie Wilcox Noble (1872–1956) was an American missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church. From 1892 to 1934 she worked alongside her husband, William Arthur Noble, in evangelism and education among women in Seoul, Pyongyang, Suwon, and elsewhere, and she left a mission journal kept over forty-two years.

• Mary Scranton

  Mary Scranton (1832–1909) was the first woman missionary sent to Korea by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the Northern Methodist Church in the United States). In 1886 she founded Ewha Haktang, Korea's first modern educational institution for women.

• Brother Andrew

  Brother Andrew (1928–2022) was a Dutch lay missionary. Known as "God's Smuggler" for secretly carrying Bibles into Communist countries during the Cold War, he founded Open Doors, a mission organization that serves the persecuted church, in 1955.

• Sarah Hall Boardman

  Sarah Hall Boardman (1803–1845) was an American Baptist missionary. In Burma (present-day Myanmar) she helped establish schools and churches among the Karen people, and after the death of her first husband, George Boardman, she married Adoniram Judson.

• Alice Rebecca Appenzeller

  Alice Rebecca Appenzeller (1885–1950) was an American Methodist missionary and educator. The daughter of Henry Appenzeller, she was born in Seoul and served as principal of Ewha Haktang and president of Ewha Womans College, laying the foundation for higher education for women in Korea.

• Ann Hasseltine Judson

  Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789–1826) was an American Baptist missionary. She served alongside her husband, Adoniram Judson, in Burma (present-day Myanmar) and is widely remembered for sustaining him while he was imprisoned.

• Henry Dodge Appenzeller

  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.

• Patsy Bolling Reynolds

  Patsy Bolling Reynolds (1868–1962) was an American Southern Presbyterian missionary. In 1892 she came to Korea with her husband, William Reynolds (Korean name Yi Nul-seo), as one of the seven members of the Southern Presbyterian pioneer party, and she served there until 1937.

• Alcohol and Tobacco

  The question of whether Christians may drink alcohol or smoke tobacco. Since the early days of missionary work in Korea, Korean Protestantism has treated abstinence from alcohol and tobacco as a mark of the Christian life, but views differ on whether the Bible actually forbids them.

• Wonsan Revival

  The Wonsan Revival was a spiritual awakening that began in August 1903 at a united missionary prayer meeting in Wonsan, when the Southern Methodist missionary Robert Hardie publicly repented. It is widely regarded as the starting point of the 1907 Pyongyang Great Revival.

• Frank Schofield

  Frank William Schofield (1889–1970) was an English-born Canadian Presbyterian medical missionary and veterinary scientist. His Korean name was Seok Ho-pil (石虎弼). Because he made the March First Movement and the Jeamni massacre known to the world through his photographs and writings, he is called the "34th National Representative."

• Aristarchus

  Aristarchus was an early Christian from Thessalonica in Macedonia who accompanied Paul on his missionary travels and on his voyage to Rome. In Colossians, Paul calls this co-worker his "fellowprisoner."