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In 1959, the first class of 23 students graduated from MVS. In 1961, MCC bought a house that served as a Boys' hostel for graduates from Mennonite Vocational School (MVS) in Taegu. On March 1, 1961, twenty–one graduates moves into the hostel. Graduates could live in the hostel until they found a job and a house.
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Technical Assistance Information Clearing House - 1964 - Technical assistance, AmericanKorean Minisfty of Health, Korean Church World Service and Catholic Relief Services cooperate. ... MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE EDUCATION: Operates Mennonite Vocational School for 200 orphan boys near Taegu and a farm and ...
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees - 1961 - Electronic booksIndia (Refugees from Pakistan) (a) Mennonite Central Committee. ... Mennonite Vocational School at Kyong San is giving between 180 and 200 orphan boys ...
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1970 - Child welfareThe plight of the orphaned children after the Korean war caught at the heart ... Built with U.S. funds, this institute operates with technical aid and economic ... The Mennonite Central Committee's training program for child care workers, ... In this group girls outnumber boys as much as three to one. reflecting the Koreans' ...
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When Mennonite Central Committee came to do relief work in South Korea after the Korean War, they set up a vocational school for orphan boys like Eun.
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Just after the Korean War in the 1950s, Hyung Gon Lee was a farm manager for the ... The vocational school trained hundreds of orphans for jobs in post-war South Korea. ... Ron Byler is executive director of Mennonite Central Committee U.S..
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Journal connects Korean Anabaptists across the globe | Canadian Mennonite Magazine
Journal connects Korean Anabaptists across the globe
October 23, 2019 | Focus On Books & Resources | Volume 23 Issue 19
Katie Doke Sawatzky | Mennonite Church Canada
Korean Anabaptist Journal
Eight years ago this fall, a group of 10 Korean Mennonites met at Sherbrooke Mennonite Church in Vancouver and decided to start a magazine. The publication would be a resource for Korean Anabaptists around the world and connect them to one another.
Nov.17, 2019, marks the seventh anniversary of the first issue of the Korean Anabaptist Journal, a semi-annual magazine published by a volunteer editorial team primarily made up of leaders from Mennonite churches in South Korea.
In 2010, Mennonite Church Canada International Witness worker Bock Ki Kim noticed a desire from Korean Anabaptist groups in South Korea, Los Angeles, Calif., and Canada, to share resources and network with each other. While the Korea Anabaptist Center in Chuncheon offered resources, Kim saw the need to have a tool to share news and resources on a regular basis.
“I wanted to create a communication tool for scattered Korean Anabaptists here and there,” says Kim, who was editor of the journal from 2013 to 2016. “Korean church leaders and staff don’t have the time or resources to develop this, and yet leaders are regularly asked by newcomers . . . for a way to connect with others. We needed a way to share information.”
Kim has translated 35 Anabaptist works into Korean in response to a burgeoning interest in Anabaptism by Christians and non-Christians in South Korea. According to him, narrow perspectives of God, corrupt leadership in hierarchical structures and a younger generation disinterested in maintaining physical church buildings, are motivating people to seek fresh perspectives of God and what it means to be the church.
“Peace theology, church as a faith community, restorative justice, conflict transformation, [and] new ways of biblical interpretation, like hermeneutical community,” are some Anabaptist principles that are appealing, he says.
The journal is published by the Korean Anabaptist Fellowship, both in hardcopy and in a PDF format that is shared through social media. An editorial team decides the content for each issue and contacts contributors.
Hyejung Jessie Yum has been an editor of the journal for the past three years. She is a doctoral student at the Toronto School of Theology and attends Danforth Mennonite Church in Toronto. She is a Korean migrant living in Canada, so regular participation as an editor has allowed her to connect Mennonite faith to her Korean identity and context.
“The journal gives me an opportunity to think about what Korean Mennonites’ unique voices in our contexts are, and what Mennonite peace theology from Korean perspectives looks like,” says Yum. “These questions relate to my current research focus on postcolonial peace theology in a multicultural context, from a Korean migrant woman’s perspective.”
Inter-Korean relations, refugees on Jeju Island, restorative justice for school bullying and eco-friendly farming are some of the topics the journal has covered recently, all from an Anabaptist perspective, says Yum.
Jongyoon Moon, pastor of Jeongin Presbyterian Church in Bucheon, in the Gyeonggi Province of South Korea, learned very little about the Anabaptists in his theological training both in Korea and in Texas at the Baptist Theological Seminary.
“I only knew about them as radical religious reformers,” Moon writes in an e-mail.
He was searching for a model of church that was true to the New Testament when he learned about the Amish, but he found the lifestyle hard to emulate in urban Korean society. When he learned about the Mennonite church, he wanted to know more. He connected with the Korean Anabaptist Fellowship and met Kim.
“What I learned through the Anabaptist-Mennonite church was the spirit of mutual aid and mutual accountability in the church,” Moon writes. “Today, modern city churches, especially Korean churches, are sadly losing the spirit of mutual aid and mutual accountability the New Testament stresses.”
He credits the Korean Anabaptist Journal with pointing him towards New Testament models of the early church. His own congregation is now putting aside a portion of its offerings each month to help members who experience economic hardship, a practice inspired by his Anabaptist readings.
Along with benefitting pastors and seminary students, Kim hopes the journal will be helpful for newcomers to Anabaptism. That’s why the editors also introduce readers to organizations like Mennonite Central Committee and Mennonite Disaster Service, and partner organizations like Christian Peacemaker Teams.
Kim says the most challenging thing with running the journal is finding the time and resources to publish it. While it started out as a quarterly, the journal is now published twice a year. The current editorial team includes a pastor, the director of the Korea Anabaptist Center, an editor and a seminary student, all of whom devote extra time to make the journal a success. They hold their meetings twice a year, using Google Hangout.
“The bond is quite strong and supportive,” says Kim. “Sometimes we meet at 10 p.m. or even 11 p.m. But the passion never fades.”
Issues of the Korean Anabaptist Journal are available through CommonWord.ca. Readership is estimated at 1,500, split fairly evenly between digital and print readers.
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Anabaptist ferment in Korea
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n a cold Saturday in late January, nearly 100
people gathered in a rented hall in downtown Seoul, South Korea, to participate in
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of the gathering, according to Bock Ki Kim, director of the Korea Anabaptist Center and co-sponsor
of the event, was “to introduce Anabaptist theology and values in a public, academic setting” and
to “challenge ourselves as Korean Anabaptists to
see who we are and what we have to do in South
Korea.”
Considered as a percentage of the total Christian church in Korea—nearly 30 percent of the
population—the number of Korean Anabaptists
is modest. Nonetheless, the event symbolized a movement that has been gaining momentum for
the past two decades. Today, South Korea is home
to one of the most creative and dynamic expressions of contemporary Anabaptism anywhere in
the global church, with potential for explosive
growth in the future.
The origins of Anabaptism in Korea are as
diverse as the original movement in 16th-century
Europe. In the decades immediately following
the Korean War (1950-1953), Mennonite Central
Committee had a modest presence in the country, focused especially on a vocational school for war orphans. In the 1980s, the key Koreanleaders, based in part on their contact with MCC
personnel, began an independent journey of
theological study, including experiments with intentional communities, that led them to a deeper
understanding of the Anabaptist tradition. Several
pursued training at Mennonite seminaries in
North America and developed relationships with
North American Mennonites. In 2001, a more formal relationship with Mennonite Church Canada
Witness, combined with the energetic leadership
of members of the Jesus Village Church, led to the
formation of the Korea Anabaptist Center, which
has since served as an important resource to the
growing movement. Along the way, the Dae Jang
Gan Press has overseen the translation and publication of scores of Anabaptist-Mennonite books,
forging a strong niche market in the Korean
Christian book trade.
Another source of this growing interest in
Anabaptism has been a series of highly publicized
scandals among several prominent pastors that
has undermined the public credibility of Korean Christianity. For the first time in a century, the Protestant church in Korea—long associated
with the country’s political, business and military
elites—is declining in numbers. In the face of
these disappointments, many Koreans are looking
for a more authentic faith, projecting onto Anabaptism a host of different hopes and expectations.
Not surprisingly, the emerging Anabaptist
movement in Korea—like its counterpart in the 16th century, is far from united. Some new comers to the movement, for example, equate
Anabaptism with community of goods. Others are
looking for an egalitarian approach to church leadership, or a simple lifestyle, or a “small church”
ecclesiology, or simply a canvas on which to imagine the possibility of “something different.” And some new comers to the movement
themselves as “Mennonite” are sorting through
basic questions of ordination, child nurture, organizational structure and polity.
One particular challenge for the emerging
Anabaptist movement in Korea is the question of
nonresistance. For the past 60 years, South Koreans have lived in the ominous shadow of a highly
militarized neighbor to the north. The armistice
that formally divided the country at the end of
the Korean War in 1953 was never signed—so
in some sense, the war there has never ended.
Living in a state of perpetual military preparedness, South Koreans generally support their
country’s policy of compulsory military service.
Indeed, military service is an important part of
Korean cultural identity, especially for young men.
Currently, the only recourse for conscientious
objectors is imprisonment, a choice recently exercised by Sang Min Lee of the Grace and Peace
Mennonite Church in Seoul. His decision, however, remains a highly controversial topic among
Korean Anabaptists.
Amid all these creative and diverse currents,
the future of the Anabaptist movement in Korea
ultimately depends on the emergence of leaders—theologians, ethicists, historians, pastors
and teachers—who will consciously continue the
work of “indigenizing” Anabaptism. Clearly, the
movement possesses individuals with the energy,
training, commitment and spiritual gifts needed to
translate Anabaptism more fully into the Korean
context. Someday, I hope, those of us in North
America will be challenged to translate texts from
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KAC Timeline – Korea Anabaptist Center
- KAC opening in Seoul (Nov 2)
- Founding members include Tim Froese, KyongJung Kim, and Lee JaeYoung, as well as 3 steering committee members (Lee YoonShik, Ahn Daniel, and Cha SungDo from Jesus Village Church)
- Supporters include JVC, MVS grads, other individuals
- Sheldon Sawatzky visited and gave a message at the opening worship service
- Publications include:
- Anabaptist history and confession
~ A combined book of small articles on Anabaptism and
~ The Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective
- KAC Library is set up
- Education
- Victim and Offender Mediation Program at Soongsil University
~ Erwin Wiens – guest speaker, Lee JaeYoung- KAC staff
- Service Work: IVEP
- Kim JiYun – KAC’s first Korean IVEPer, served in Canada
- Networking
- MMN Learning tour led by Stanly Green
- Kim KyongJung visit to Canada
- MC Canada office, Charleswood Mennonite Church, Pandora Press
- Office location changed
- Major Event: US invade Iraq
- Sister Ryu Eun-Ha witnessed to the violent situation for Peace and Justice
- SIV(Salam Iraq Volunteers) include:
~ A group of Korea volunteers organized and sent to Iraq for service and relief work
~ The Frontiers, Dongahn Presbyterian Church, and KAC
- Publications
- Anabaptist Seeds – Arnold Snyder
- Is a peace church possible – Alan Kreider
- Peace education
- World Friendship Center invited KAC staff to visit Hiroshima in Japan for peace education and networking purposes
- Peace and Peer Mediation Workshop led by Robert Harries and Lee Jae Young
- Lee JaeYoung participated in MPI (Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute) in Philippines
- Peacebuilders education program
- Guest speakers include Alan and Elenore Kreider, teaching on the Early Church and Anabaptism
- Service Work
- IVEP: Ko Il-Young served in Ontario, Canada
- SALT: Anita Streicher from Canada
- CMU Intern: Cheryl Woelk from Canada
- Networking
- Lee Wheeler (MCC worker) shared his trip to North Korea as an agricultural specialist
- House of Sharing (A shelter for women under Japanese colonization)
- Mennonite World Conference in Zimbabwe
~ JVC became an associate member of Mennonite World Conference
~ Tim Froese, Kim KyongJung, and Erwin Wiens participated in the event
- Publications
- Worship and Evangelism in Pre-Christendom by Alan Kreider
- Guest speakers Harry and Agnus Huebner from CMU, Canada
- Service Work
- IVEP: Kim HongSeok, served in USA
- SALT: Rachel Vermeer from Alberta, Canada
- Networking
- AMC (Asia Mennonite Conference) executive committee gathering
- A Hibakusha from World Friendship Center visited
- House of Sharing
- Tim Forese family returned to Canada
- KAC’s English language Institute, Connexus, is started
- Publications
- Building on the Rock
- Mennonite Story
- Peace and reconciliation as a new paradigm
- Guest speaker Jacob Elias from AMBS
- Peace education
- Service Work
- IVEP: Seo Eunji served in BC, Canada
- SALT: Lauen Sauer and Douglas Friesen from Ontario Canada
- Major event: Asia Anabaptist Discipleship Training Program (AADT)
- Guest speakers
- Tom Yoder Neufeld
- Anthony Brown
- Education
- Theological Joint Consultation together in Macao for Anabaptist Seminary
- Conflict Prevention Seminar
- Service Work
- IVEP: Oh Eun Kyung served in MCC office, Akron, Pennsylvania, USA
- SALT: Kevin Leeder
- Networking
- Helped church-to-church exchange program
- Trip to visit Japanese Mennonite churches in Tokyo area
- Korean Anabaptist Mission Fellowship (KAMF) formed
- Publications
- Mediation training manual
- Hutterite life
- Confession of faith in a Mennonite perspective
- Discipleship as political responsibility
- Education
- Hun Lee
- Christian Peace Academy
- Hizakias Asefa
- Service Work
- Networking
- Grace and Peace Mennonite Church
- Korean association of church community
- Korean Anabaptist Mission Fellowship (KAMF)
2008
- Publications
- The History of the Hutterites – John Hofer
- Claus Felbinger’s Confession of 1560
- The Radicals DVD – Korean subtitles
- Work and Rest in Biblical Perspective – Waldemar Janzen
- Guest Speakers Mark and Mary Hurst
- Anabaptism and Homeschooling
- Peace education
~ Conflict Resolution
~ Restorative Justice
- Service Work
- SALT: Sarah Wilson, served in Sarangbang Community Church
- Networking
- Korean Anabaptist Mission Fellowship (KAMF)
- Publications
- Anabaptist Vision
- Ein Esndbrief Bruederliche Gemeinschaft das hoechste Gebot der Liebe Betreffend – Andreas Ehrenpreis, 1652
- Education
- Christian Peace Academy
- Speakers Pat and Earl Martin
- Networking
- North East Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute (NARPI) – first year; network-building stage
- Peace camp in China
- Dandelion Community
- Bible Korea
- MCC Korea Reunion
- Korean PAX team visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
- Mennonite World Conference
- Korean Anabaptist Mission Fellowship (KAMF)
- KAC 8th anniversary
- KAF 1st gathering in LA
- Publications
- Dying to Live with Christ – Merle Ruth
- Journey Toward Reconciliation – John Paul Lederach
- How Christians made peace with war – John Driver
- Changing Lenses – Howard Zehr
- Education
- Parmer Becker
- Al Fuelutes – Trauma Healing
- Kim ChangKyu – Hubmiar’s view on Anabaptist salvation
- Restorative Justice
- Networking
- North East Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute (NARPI) – second year; foundation-laying stage
- Peace camp in China
- KAC 9th anniversary
- KAF 2nd gathering in Calgary, Canada; 3rd gathering in ChunCheon, Korea
- Education
- Peace-building workshops led by Joe and Janet Campbell
- Service Work
- IVEP: Park Jin Ju served in Elmira, Ontario; Song Yeoreum served in Pennsylvania, USA; Kim Seung-Hwan, served in Denver, Colorado
- Networking
- North East Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute (NARPI) – third year; operation stage
- Peace camp in Korea
- KAC and Connexus separate; KAC moves to ChunCheon city and Connexus moves to Deokso
- KAC 10th anniversary
- Education
- Kingdom builders led by Erv Wiens
- Boundary workshop led by Marian Wiens
- Service Work
- IVEP: Jung Su-Hyun serving in Pennsylvania, USA
- SALT: Deborah Wiens from British Columbia; Alexandra Loeppky and Jessica Klassen from Manitoba
- YAMEN: Cindy Tristiantanri from Indonesia
- Networking
- Asia Anabaptist Diakonia Conference held in Salatiga, Indonesia
- MCC Korea Reunion
- Global Anabaptist Service Network
- MWC general council
