| John Cho
Sibum Hanyong Apt 313-703
Seohyun-Dong Bundang-gu Sungnam-Si
Kyunggi-do
Seoul
South Korea
jcworldwide@yahoo.com
John is on a leave of absence.
John Cho is in ministry with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
and their partners in the Philippines, the United Church of Christ
in the Philippines (UCCP) and Silliman University. He is a professor
of church history and mission at the Divinity School of Silliman
University. The university is the Protestant university in the
Philippines and is locatedi n Dumaguete, the capital of the Negros
Oriental Province. The Philippines consists of more than 7,000
islands of various sizes. It is typically tropical, hot and humid
year-round. With a population of approximately 75 million, it
has more than sixty different ethnic groups and eighty different
dialects. Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion (80%).
Prior to moving to the Philippines, John was an interim pastor
at the Korean Church of Bloomington-Normal in Illinois. He has
also served in pastorates as the education minister of the Dayton
Korean Baptist Church in Dayton, Ohio, the education minister
of the Korean Presbyterian Church of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada,
a Presbyterian chaplain at the University of Alberta, associate
pastor at New York Bethany Presbyterian Church, and worked as
a missionary with North Korean defectors in South Korea and Filipino
migrant workers in South Korea. John also served as the coordinator
of Sunday School at the Dayton Korean United Methodist Church
in Dayton, Ohio, and as youth pastor for the Han-Gil Presbyterian
Church of New York, New York.
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