Hanil University,
like many other theological schools that expanded into liberal
arts universities, was showing increasing signs of secularization.
Over the past several years small groups of faculty and students
gathered to pray for a renewed spiritual focus on campus. “These
groups seldom included more than two or three persons, yet they
continued to be faithful,” write mission co-workers Drs.
Daniel and Carol Chou Adams. “Within the last two years,
their prayers have been answered.”
Worship has again become central at the university, beginning
with daily early morning prayer, daily chapel services, afternoon
chapel services for faculty and staff, weekly chapel services
for international students, and numerous student prayer and
Bible study groups that meet each week. Formerly small prayer
meetings now draw between fifty and sixty students from all
undergraduate departments and graduate schools.
An immediate benefit of this new focus has been a strengthened
sense of community among members of the faculty and staff. Worshiping
together has increased cooperation between departments and renewed
dedication to making Hanil a truly Christian university.
Another Home is a ministry to teenaged girls who have run
away from homes or orphanages. Many of them are survivors of
domestic or societal violence and abuse. The home was started
by the Women Ministers Association of the Presbyterian Church
of Korea in 1999. “All of those with wounded hearts gather
in Another Home to start new lives, overcoming suffering and
healing their own hurts,” writes Grace Moon of the Presbyterian
Church of Korea. |
