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Church Plant
A church plant is a newly established church, founded in an area with no church or too few churches or directed toward a new group of people; the term also refers to the process of establishing such a church. In Korean Protestant usage, it commonly denotes a church in its early years with a small congregation and a limited financial base.
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- Church Planting by DivisionOrganization & Polity
The founding of a new, independent church by an existing church (the "mother church"), which sends out some of its members, ministers, and part of its finances. Also called "daughter-church planting," it is distinct from a "church split," in which a congregation divides through conflict.
- Evangelist PastorChurch Offices
An evangelist pastor is a pastoral title used chiefly in the constitutions of Presbyterian denominations. It refers to a pastor sent by a presbytery to preach the gospel in an area without a church and to establish new churches there.
- Church Growth in KoreaHistory
The rapid increase in the number of Protestant church members and churches in South Korea during the industrialization and urbanization of the 1960s through the 1980s. The term also covers the slowdown and stagnation of that growth from the 1990s onward.
- MissionaryChurch 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.
- Bivocational MinistryOrganization & Polity
Bivocational ministry refers to pastors and other ministers holding an outside occupation alongside their pastoral work. Denominations differ on whether and under what conditions it is permitted, as they weigh ministers' need for a livelihood against full-time devotion to ministry.
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