An Exciting 3M Campaign for the Future of Korean American Ministry

The NKPC held its 32nd Annual Assembly in June of 2003 in Hawaii where the first group of Korean immigrants landed in the soil of North America. Approximately half of the first 102 immigrants who came to this strange land were Christians looking for a new dream. They worked for ten long hours with tears and sweat as laborers in the sugar plantation with a meager daily wage of 69 cents a day. They contributed one-third of their wage for the Independence Movement of their homeland from the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula, one-third for a school and a church to educate their children and to worship God and the remaining one-third for their living expenses. They sacrificed heavily for the future of the Korean descendants in the new world. Since the chartering of the first Korean congregation in 1903 (the same year they came to Hawaii), the Korean churches have become the center of Korean community for worship, fellowship, Korean language teaching and Korean culture. The first Korean Presbyterian church was organized in Los Angeles in 1906. [Read more]