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| Our Visions |
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| 1) The Methodist Church Refreshing Everyday |
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Spiritual Awakening and Being Full of Holy Spirit..
The history of the KMC began with spiritual awakening. The great revival in Wonsan 1885 was ignited by the work of the Holy Spirit. With the celebration of 120th anniversary, the KMC is now making a great effort to be the church of spiritually awaken and vitality.
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Re-constructing the identity as Methodist..
As the only united church in multi-religious society and with other fragmented Protestant denominations, the KMC now faces the need of change. The initial stage of change would be the reconsider John Wesley's Methodist movement under Korean context and succeed his movement in Korean context. Then, a Korean model of Methodist church can be provided. It could contain strengthening ministers role in the church and a suggestion of prototype of Methodist.
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Evangelizing the Korean Nation..
The KMC through the suffering and raid growth has the tradition of contributing to Enlightment, national independence, economic growth and democratization. However, the division of North and South Korea brought a severe dichotomization of Korea. One of the most important mission of the KMC is actively working for North Korea with passion and spirituality. The KMC is preparing the coming age of national reunification by humanitarian support to North Korea, exchange with North Korean Christian Federation, and financial support to Theological College and church buildings.
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| 2) The Methodist Church on Solid Ground |
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The Three Millions Believers Movements..
The social changes in Korea in this century such as five working days, the increase of females on the workplace, distorted family, low birth rate, the increase of the aged
are the difficult issues in which the KMC, needs to overcome to evangelize people. The Three Million Believers Movement is the KMC's main mission
movement. The movement is for the growth of each church and for the mission of the individual Methodists. By this movement, the District office supports individual
churches' mission to evangelize local people and helps the churches which are not financially independent. Also this movement contains the close relationship between
the churches in the cities and the churches in countryside, organizing lay evangelists in the individual churches, the mega churches' co-operation with financially nonindependent
churches, school mission, Christian mission in military, and raising lay leaders.
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The Social Service and Welfare..
Remarkable economic development does not mean there are no poor and isolated peoples in Korean society. The Methodist social work programs can be categorized into missions for
Korean society, welfare services, and managing social establishments. Many systems are now under construction such as the supporting individual church system, the
network between organizations and local centers, and Visions voluntary workers, and individual contribution. Moreover, the KMC's work for social service is also reaching into the less developed countries.
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Next Generation..
The Korean church still has patriarchic and feudalistic characteristics. The social changes entails a need of new methods of ministry for children, the youth, and the aged. It is important to have new paradigm of
ministry for spirituality, natural environment, community, sharing, and devotion. The paradigm would include taking care of differently abled persons, migrant workers, North Korean refuges, other isolated people,
various forms of ministries for families, inter-racial Koreans, and contemporary culture such as films and the internet.
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| 3) the Methodist Church towards the World and the Future |
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Ecumenism and World Mission..
The World mission of the KMC includes dispatching disciplined missionaries for native mission, education mission, and welfare mission. The KMC provides and attempts to improve
courses for 1000 missionary candidates and continual education for missionaries in their mission stations, and organizing mission aids for the
expenses and missionaries' children. The KMC works for synthesizing scattered missionary support by the individual churches, expanding mission
fields, and searching out new mission stations. This is also involved with ecumenical works and co-operation with other Christian denominations in the world.
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Natural Environment and Integrity of Creation..
The KMC is the first church to put heavenly duty for conservation of nature which is presented in ‘the Korean Methodist Doctrine and Discipline Clause 106’. The KMC, as a
representing church of caring natural environment, encourages individual churches to be a steward and to have a committee for natural environment. In
particular, the KMC co-operates with World Church Council to proceed JPIC Movement.
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National Reunification and World Peace..
The KMC pronounced social participation in the Methodist Social Creed in 1930. It is sure that the KMC has to take responsibility for national reunification and world peace
which are deeply involved with the missions for civil society, national development, and petter future. The KMC is sure that working on those
missions can bring the Kingdom og God for universal salration of all human nations.
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The Head Office of the K.M.C
16th FL., Methodist Building, 64-8, Taepyungro-1-ga, Jung-Gu, Seoul, Korea
Copyright ⓒ 2006-2009, All rights Reserved. by The Korean Methodist Church
Phone 82-2-399-4315(Office of Administration), 82-2-399-4300(Office of Council of Bishops)
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