Evangelistic Programs

Below are a list of our evangelistic programs.   Please look at them carefully so that you will understand what is expected of you and what it means to be a missionary in Korea.

- Religion Class - Religion class begins five days into the regular teaching term and ends five days before (Begins day 6 and ends day 31).  It starts a week after the term to give your students time to settle in and get to know his/her teacher.  It gives  the teacher 5 days to promote his/her bible topic (Parables of Jesus, Love & Happiness, The book of John, etc.).  There are sample bible study guides for your classes.  There is enough material to last six to ten months.  After that, you would have to create your own bible materials.  Use what we have or create your own.  It's your class and your opportunity to witness -- you decide!

- Friendship Evangelism - You will teach 5 hours of English and one hour of Religion a day.  That will sometimes leave you with a little time on your hands.  Many students like to seize this opportunity to get to know their foreign teachers outside of the classroom.  Your students will be very curious about you and your lifestyle.  Students may offer to take you to a local shop to drink juice or eat lunch.  They may  take you by subway  to go see a Korean traditional palace or some other place like a park.  This creates the biggest opportunity to witness to your students.  You will fine many of your students decline to  order alcohol when they discover  that you never drink.  You will notice a sense of respect they have for a person who tries to live a clean lifestyle -- And Does It!  This will often create a desire within them to have what you have and to know what you know.  Many students have started personal bible studies with teachers and Korean pastors because of the lives lived by our missionary teachers and the friendships made with them.

- Friday Night Vespers -  All English classes will finish around twelve noon on Fridays.  This will give you time to prepare properly for the Sabbath.  There is a vespers program to bring in the Sabbath that usually starts one hour before sunset.  It is usually called Friday Night Vespers or Friday Night Fellowship. It will vary at every mission school.   Every Thursday Night and Friday morning you would remind your students about Friday night vespers and you should give them a personal invitation to come.  The majority of the students come to see their teachers but we know that God has a blessing for them regardless of their initial motives for going.  It is very helpful to tell your students when you will be speaking or doing some other special part of the service.  Most of your students would come to support you.  This is a wonderful time to witness to your students and other students as well.

- Sabbath Activities - There are many programs/clubs held on Sabbath morning.  Smaller mission schools may only have a few of them.  The most popular ones are as follows:

- Signs Club - Students read Signs of the Times Articles and then have a group discussion after going over difficult words to understand.

- Translation Club - A story or book is chosen to read and then translate sentence by sentence

- Music Club - Songs are played and students are introduced to the history of them followed by discussion

- Quarterly Club - Regular Sabbath School Class

- Chapel Day - Once every two months classes are cancelled and all students will go to the Chapel every hour for worship.  A guest speaker from another mission school may be called in to deliver the Word or a local missionary may do it.  An appeal for bible studies is made at the end of the message.

- Mission Week - Once every two months classes are shortened and students are invited to come and worship over a three day period.  A guest speaker from another mission school is usually brought in to deliver the word over the three day period.  An appeal is made at the end of each meeting for bible studies.  An appeal for baptism may be made at the end of the three days.

- Camp Meeting - Once or twice a year a camp meeting will be held.  In preparation, missionary teachers, AY's and Pastors are encouraged to make friendships with students and have meaningful bible studies that may lead to baptism.  These are the students normally invited to the camp meeting.  The camp meeting speaker is usually one of our church officials back home.

- Mission Retreats - Usually the first or second week of April we hold our spring retreat.  This is a time of rest and relaxation for our missionaries.  The weekend is only for our missionaries and a speaker from one of our home countries would come and minister to the missionaries.  This is a key moment for our missionaries.  All year long they are giving and giving.  This time they are the recipients.