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• Colonialism and Missions

  Colonialism and missions refers to the historical relationship in which European overseas expansion and Christian missionary work became intertwined from the fifteenth century onward. The term also covers the criticism and reassessment surrounding that relationship.

• Medical Missions

  Medical missions is a form of mission that combines caring for the sick through medical practice with proclaiming the gospel or living out the Christian faith. Korean Protestantism is so closely tied to medical missions that it can be said to have begun with the hospital work of its early missionaries.

• Short-Term Missions

  Short-term missions are trips in which church members travel to domestic or overseas mission fields for a period ranging from a few days to several weeks, or in longer cases one to two years, to assist local churches and engage in evangelism and service. In Korean churches the practice is also widely known as a "vision trip."

• History of Korean Church Missions

  The history of Korean church missions is the history of Korean Protestantism sending missionaries to other regions of Korea and abroad. Its starting points are generally identified as the Independent Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in Korea sending a missionary to Jeju Island in 1907 and the mission to Shandong, China, in 1913.

• Korea World Missions Association

  The Korea World Missions Association (KWMA) is a Korean Protestant cooperative body for overseas missions that brings together the mission boards of various denominations and independent mission organizations. Established in 1990 as an incorporated association, it publishes annual statistics on Korean missionaries and has led the "Target 2030" movement.

• The Great Century of Missions

  The Great Century of Missions is a name coined by the American church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette. It refers to the nineteenth century, specifically the period from 1800 to 1914, during which Protestant foreign missions expanded dramatically.

• Centennial of Protestant Missions in Korea

  The centennial of Protestant missions in Korea was a series of commemorative projects and events held in 1984 to mark one hundred years of Protestant mission work in Korea, taking Horace Allen's arrival in 1884 as the starting point. Numerous denominations and organizations took part. The central event was the Korean Christian Centennial Mission Convention, held that August at Yeouido Plaza in Seoul.

• Mission

  Mission is the work of proclaiming the gospel to people and regions that have not yet heard it and of establishing churches there. In the Korean church, the term chiefly refers to ministry carried out in other cultures and abroad, that is, overseas missions.

• Mission Sunday

  Mission Sunday is a Sunday set apart by a church to remember home and foreign missions, to pray for missionaries and mission fields, and to receive a missions offering. Its date and frequency vary by denomination and congregation.

• Reunification and the Church

  Reunification and the Church refers to the debate over how the church should understand and pursue both the overcoming of the division of the Korean Peninsula and the proclamation of the gospel in North Korea. One position gives priority to peace and exchange, while the other gives priority to evangelism and religious freedom.

• Literature Mission

  Literature mission is a form of missionary work that proclaims the gospel and teaches the faith through written and printed materials such as Bibles, tracts, Christian books, and magazines. Today it is often understood to include e-books and online content as well.

• William Carey

  William Carey (1761–1834) was an English Baptist minister and missionary to India. Through his writings arguing for the duty of foreign missions and his role in founding a missionary society, he is known as the "father of modern missions."

• Missiology

  Missiology is a branch of theology that studies the biblical foundations, history, and methods of mission, that is, the church's work of carrying the gospel to other regions and cultures.

• Theology of Mission

  The theology of mission is the field that studies, on the basis of Scripture and theology, the grounds, purpose, and scope of mission, that is, the church's work of proclaiming the gospel and carrying out God's will in the world.

• Student Volunteer Movement

  The Student Volunteer Movement (SVM) was an interdenominational student missionary movement that began in 1886 at a student Bible conference at Mount Hermon in the United States. It recruited college students as foreign missionaries and, under the watchword "The Evangelization of the World in This Generation," is reported to have sent out some twenty thousand missionaries.

• Moon Joon-kyung

  Moon Joon-kyung (1891–1950) was a woman evangelist of the Holiness Church who ministered in the island region of Sinan, South Jeolla Province. Killed on Jeungdo during the Korean War, she is honored as a martyr and is known as "the mother of island missions."

• Missionary Sending by the Korean Church

  Missionary sending by the Korean church refers to the history of Korean Protestant churches and mission organizations sending missionaries to other regions and countries. Its beginning is commonly dated to the 1907 mission to Jeju Island. As of the end of 2024, there were 21,621 long-term missionaries serving in 171 countries.

• Nevius Mission Policy

  The Nevius Mission Policy was a mission policy adopted by the Presbyterian missions in Korea in the early 1890s, based on methods proposed by John Nevius, a missionary to China. At its core are the three-self principles, under which the local church propagates itself (self-propagation), governs itself (self-government), and supports itself financially (self-support), together with systematic Bible study.

• Women's Evangelistic Society

  A Women's Evangelistic Society (yeojeondohoe) is a self-governing association formed by the women members of a church for evangelism, missions, and service. In Methodist churches and some other denominations, it is called a Women's Missionary Society (yeoseongyohoe).

• Matthew 28:18–20

  The closing verses of the Gospel of Matthew, in which the risen Jesus commands the eleven disciples to make disciples of all nations, baptizing and teaching them. Known as the "Great Commission," the passage is frequently cited as a basis for missions, for baptism, and for the Trinitarian baptismal formula.