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Presbyterian Heritage Sunday, May 19, 2002 Witness the Good News: Our Mission Heritage in Korea Ecumenical efforts and the Korean Church Presbyterian Council, 1901 (detail). Click for enlargement. Seeing a common purpose in their work, the missionaries of the PCUSA and PCUS created the Presbyterian Council in 1893. According to Arthur Judson Brown's Mission to Korea, the council existed to undertake "the uniform organization in Korea of but one native Church holding the Reformed Faith and the Presbyterian Form of Government." Not only did the PCUSA and the PCUS missions work together in Korea, but these Presbyterians also cooperated with their Australian and Canadian counterparts and the two Methodist missions operating in Korea. In 1905, this group of six proposed to combine their work in order to create "one Korean National Church." While the group never reached this aim, Korea became an early example of ecumenical efforts. Just two years later, the first graduates of the theological seminary in Pyongyang were ordained as the first Korean Presbyterian ministers. The year 1907 also included the creation of the Presbytery of All Korea and the beginnings of an independent national church in Korea. Eventually this presbytery grew to become the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Korea. F irst Meeting of the Presbytery of All Korea, detail. Click for enlargement. Mission activity has continued in Korea since the first native baptism performed by Horace Grant Underwood in 1886. Today the PC(USA) missions in Korea cross the Demilitarized Zone between South and North Korea and are active in trying to overcome nearly fifty years of separation for both individual families and the country. The dedicated work of missionaries and Korean Christians has been instrumental in making South Korea one of the greatest success stories for Christianity on the Asian mainland. Today Korea not only receives mission workers, but sends its own Presbyterian missionaries to the United States and many other countries.   Introduction Part 1: The First Presbyterian Missionaries in Korea Part 2: The Tates and the PCUS in Korea Part 3: Educational Efforts in Korea Part 4: Ecumenical Efforts and the Korean Church   Bibliography   Heritage Sunday 2002 Main Page

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