This paper explores central Asia's contextualization mission strategy focused on national approach to culture of homogeneity and heterogeneity. This article attempts Central Asian society's common character and differences from the historic origin and each people's cultural diversity in Central Asia. Central Asia and the entire region contextualization of this article suggesting strategies to derive basically the most basic issues of the specification that can be raised. This article explores examining particularly Central Asia’s historical-cultural common homogeneity and individuality. Chapter II examines Central Asia's history-culture and mission : mission strategy of common homogeneity. Chapter III reviews Central Asia’s mission strategy after independence : factor elements of commonality and individuality. Chapter IV analyzes Contextualization mission strategy focused on national origin and mutual confrontation. As Uzbekistan and Tajikistan develop a stronger sense of their own independence, each country is establishing a new concept of view in explaining their national origin of its own history, which is then inserted into the state ideology. Moreover, because the historical paths of the two states overlap, they interpret the same historical events, from a nationalist perspective, in diametrically opposite ways. Contemporary Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are the territories with the strongest historical links in Central Asia. Since the acquisition of independence they have been marked by similar features of state and nation building.The aim of this article is to present a general overview of the contextualization mission strategy in Central Asia in examining common character and heterogeneous features of the Central people's surroundings after independence and the different aspects of a nation's most basic historical, traditional, understanding including national origin and political system. In exploring Central Asia's mission strategy. it need to be conducted study not only common aspects and heterogeneous nature in Central Asia to identify the distinctive aspects of the Central Asia mission strategy. This article's specification of mission strategy lies in the individual culture and ethnic-based access to a variety of strategies to be drawn to emphasize that what was done. Central Asia is a mission target area.
The study focuses developing an effective mission strategy in a Social Network Service culture to reach the net generation in Korea. It asks these important questions: “What are the barrier for the Korean churches in evangelism to the net generation?” “How can Korean churches change their SNS culture in mission for the unchurched net generation?” In order to answer these questions, data was collected through questionnaires and interviews with members of the net generation in Korea. Both the characteristics of the net generation, and those of the emerging SNS culture in Korea, were analyzed.The effective strategies of Korea church mission was an important issues in this study of how best to reach for Christ the net generation in SNS culture. I think that experience of mission in the Korean context led N-generation to the strategy that the Korean churches need a mission approach using SNS culture. This evangelism is a challenge for Korean churches seeking to reach the net generation. Korean churches need to be develop the mission strategies using SNS appropriate for the Internet culture of the net generation. Such SNS must be part of an effective mission toward the net generation who embrace a SNS culture.
This paper explores central Asia's area studies and mission strategy focused on culture and islam's identity. This articles attempts significance of the area studies in taking pursuit of mission strategy in Central Asia. By researching Central Asia's historical surroundings, cultural identity, islam’s ideas after break up Soviet Union, it enables us to take out the essence of the mission’s methods in this areas. This article explores examining particularly Central Asia's historical meaning of the Mongolian tradition and the origin of the Central Asia's peoples, study the ideas of the religious essence, above all Islam's fundamentalism and the religiopolitical strategies as a politics of discourse focused on the concept in Central Asia. The history of Central Asia has been about empires and tribes. The concept of nation to denote a triangular relationship among territory, ethnocultural identity, and political authority is very recent in this region. The causeandeffect links between geopolitics and national identification in Central Asia were revealed by religion and national identity. By this conception, we must design mission strategy. The process of religious identity and national identity and Central Asia’s geopolitics have been connected each other, and I emphasized strong significance on the connection of domestic political surroundings and mission strategy. The leap from culture to politics is made by portraying the nation at one moment as a cultural community, and at another, as a political community. Nationalists can build up the nation from different political events and economic surroundings to be fot their country have special culture identity. Chapter II examines cultural mapping as the essence in Central Asia's study. Chapter III reviews islam's identity in Central Asia. Chapter IV analyzes politics factor focused on international relations between the west, USA and the Russia government. The aim of this article is to present a general overview of the mission strategy in examining culture and the ideological concept of the newly governments in Central Asia dealing with the process of the Nation building and State building in this areas.
This article is to focus on the approach and application in practical strategy for Rwanda's culture and society. The understanding of Rwanda has so rapidly changed from their history. The missionaries did not understand about Rwanda situation. Also Korean church is not interested in Africa culture and mission. This situation has some important mission fields as the Rwanda church and Christian are being considered. The practical alternatives for Rwanda mission are very significant sphere of Africa mission. This paper is analyzed understand and practices for Rwanda mission through field experience and reference books. The Korea church should be realized the missional direction toward the Africa culture. This article explains social, political, economic, and religious understanding as well as their musics, worldview, and language. For this Rwanda mission practice and method, I want to recommend several suggestions to Korea church. Firstly, we can be recognized mission of passion of Gospel. We should be understood that the church must practice important vocation for Africa mission. Secondly, We should be changed paradigm shift about Rwanda mission. We can use materially, financially, culturally practical resources in the Korea church toward Rwanda mission. We can develop contact point for Rwanda strategy and plan in various missional direction.
This article aims to analyze and apply to the Great Revival Movement of Pyugyang 1907 by using the revitalization movement model of Anthony Wallace with the complement of the innovation model of Homer Barnet. Socio-cultural change is the result of any transformation of customs, values, and ways of thinks or behaviors in a society. The religious meaning of this change is the worldview change in a society as a form of religious conversion. Wallace defines revitalization movement as “a deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture.” In the process of revitalization there are three factors presented: (1) the perception of the culture as a system; (2) dissatisfaction with that system; and (3) an organized effort to change that system. The process of revitalization movement shares a common structure, consisting of the following five stages: (1) steady state; (2) period of increased individual stress; (3) period of cultural distortion; (4) period of revitalization(in this period there are six functions: formulation of a code, communication, organization, adaptation, cultural transformation, and routinization); and (5) new steady state. Anthony Wallace’s anthropological model of revitalization movement, in combination with Homer G. Barnet’s model of innovation can provide a useful framework for examining and understanding of the Great Revival Movement of Pyengyang 1907. He defines an innovation as “any thought, behavior, or thing that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms.” The emphasis in this model is on the reorganization of ideas rather than on quantitative variation. Culture change takes place not when there is just more or less of the same thing, but when idea, a behavior pattern or a material object is qualitatively different from existing forms. He has contributed to the understanding of culture change as he suggested the theory focusing on the innovator’s behavior pattern. As an outsider the role of the missionary is important, but the change agent is the indigenous leadership, the one who mainly influences on the decision on the reception of the socio-cultural change. The change by the outsider(or missionaries) may be destructive so that the cross-cultural witness should attempt to contextualize the gospel through a careful examination of the local culture, because they are the persons who use to bring sociocultural changes as well as individual change. In the end of the Chosen Dynasty, people had experienced a religious vacuum. The reasons were because Korean traditional religions, Buddhism and Confucianism, has lost their ability to provide people mental framework. This religious vacuum caused people to desire for fervently seeking a new religion. Also the Tonghak revolution and Chinese-Russian war and following the assassination of the queen Min drove people into fear and frustration. The year 1884 was one of the darkest eras in the Chosen history because there was no sign to resolve the current situation. Endemic disease spread all around the country accelerated the crisis and fear felt by the people. So people were trying to seek some solution to resolve the crisis. The stress level of people became increased, in fact, facing the crisis the colonial Japan began to occupy the country with power. In this circumstances there was a candle ignited for a revival by American Methodist missionary Hardie from Wonsan in 1903 August. In his confession we can find a transforming code for overcoming the national crisis and desperate situation, which was radical and super cultural. The revival movement started from Wonsan became spread to Kangwon province, Seoul, Gaesung, Pyugyang, and all around the country. Finally this movement exploded at Changdaehyun church in 1907 January. At that time, there were around 1,000 men for bible studying meeting and missionaries gathered for noon prayer meeting. Then how can the code as a spiritual awakening be interpreted and communicated by the Korean believers? The revival movement as a renovative code was interpreted and communicated as means of salvation, and it was diffused to beyond Pyungyang. The leaders of the movement included Korean church leaders such as Kil Sunju, Chun Kyeeun, and Chung Chuhsoo as well as foreign missionaries. They had lead revival meetings with a clear motivation to breakthrough the desperate situation in faith, which were combined with the prayer meetings of the missionaries. In fact, the Korean church leaders were involved in the revival movement with a strong desire to find a clue of overcoming the crisis, while the missionaries started the revivals with repentance and reflect of their mission works. But these two different motives were directly connected to the Great Revival, and they were finding a new code and goal culture. The Great Revival movement had played an important role to rapidly grow churches and to encourage evangelism among Korean churches through making young people to commit their lives for ministry, and to develop church structure. A turning point made by the Great Revival movement was the organization of the church structure, the unity of denominations, and missionary endeavor such as working together for medical and educational mission works. The Great Revival was really successful, and it had influenced on the development of the church structure, theology, and church growth. It can be evaluated that not only did it include repentance and awakening in a spiritual dimension, but it was closely related to socio-cultural transformation. So it is a crucial factor to examine the socio-cultural and political dimensions of the Great Revival movement. From a missiological perspective, socio-cultural change must include a transforming factor of the gospel. Any socio-cultural change in Christianity is not merely the change of individual's mind and behavior, but should be extended to social and cultural movements. During socio-cultural changes, the role of the church is to provide a valid biblical framework in order for people to change their worldview to biblical one and to suggest an alternative theological agenda for a relevant contextual theology to overcome the gospel reductionism and syncretism. To some extent, critical evaluation to the Great Revival movement might be something that it had done in an American form of Christian faith. In this reason, from the beginning the Korean Christianity had difficulties to indigenize and contextualize the gospel, difficulty that it was to transplant the gospel message into the Korean soil. In this respect it is suggested a problem that the movement has hardly contributed to the contextualize the gospel for the Korean church. Though there are both positive and negative aspects to the Great Revival movement, it must be the crucial event that the Korean church today reexamines and rediscovers as the event that has a huge contribution for the formation of Korean believers’ faith pattern in the critical time when the country lost her national right and identity. The challenge the Korean church are facing is that the church has to attempt to discover a new code and ideal culture that can inspire in believers’ mind and diagnose the today’s crisis through the Bible and the church history.
This study focuses developing an effective mission strategy in a cyber culture to reach the new generation in Korea. It asks these important questions: "What are the barrier for the Korean churches in evangelism to the new generation?" "How can Korean churches change their Cyber culture in mission for the unchurched new generation?" In order to answer these questions, data was collected through questionnaires and interviews with members of the new generation in Korea. Both the characteristics of the new generation, and those of the emerging Cyber culture in Korea, were analyzed. Concerns for effective strategies of Korea church mission was an important issues in this study of how best to reach for Christ the Korean new generation. The writer's experience of mission in the Korean context led him to the strategy that the Korean churches need a multimedia mission approach using Cyber culture. Multimedia mission is a challenge for Korean churches seeking to reach the new generation. Korean churches need to be develop the mission strategies using multimedia appropriate for the Cyber culture of the new generation. Such multimedia must be part of an effective mission toward the new generation who embrace a Cyber culture.
The internet is "an information flea market" in which people can easily access online magazines, world information and discussion groups. Electronic mail is fast becoming an essential tool for communication. However, it does not only deal with information and communication. A new vocabulary is showing up, such as, the world of cyberspace "and electronic community" which indicate the occurrence of a new type of life and perception called, the virtual world. Virtual means "almost as good as real" or even better than real. Virtua l reality creates an electronic environment-cyberspace that engages the senses so vividly that it feels reaL" Many people in the coming age will live in this space. This cyberspace is different from mass communication in that "it allows one the opportunity to speak as though to one person, yet reach millions."