An intense focus on "Empowering the church to be on mission" marked the 26th annual meeting of the Council of Korean Southern Baptist Churches in America. Korea-born missionaries serving in the Mideast, Ukraine, Brazil, Venezuela, Guatemala and Canada were on hand for the June 18-20 sessions in Houston, along with the presidents of the Korea Baptist Convention and the Korea Baptist Seminary and other guests from Korea….The missions focus was in keeping with the Korean Council's emphasis during the past year: to have 1,000 Korean missionaries appointed by the SBC by the year 2010. Rankin reported that 280 have been appointed to date; another 200 are in the process….Nearly 600 Korean students are studying at one of the six Southern Baptist seminaries: 350 at Southwestern, 115 at Southern, 60 at Golden Gate, 38 at New Orleans, 20 at Southeastern and 10 at Midwestern. [View Full Article]
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