기독교사학의 학원선교사 파송정책에 관한 연구 - 기독교대한감리회를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study aims to understand the status of missionary work at Christian schools and to analyze the “School Missionaries” policy at the Korean Methodist Church for educational missionary work and to suggest a sugges- tion based on the revised rules for implementing them. Through this, the study would like to suggest the missionary policy and direction of Korean Christian schools. The latest figures for each ministry indicate a decline in the number of church members, especially the younger generation, although the number of churches continues to grow. Many of the existing church members have moved to different religions or become anti-Christians, most of all, the younger generation is no longer going to church. Among other things, communication with the next generation has become a major problem. The church is not communicating with society, not with the young, and is just trying to stay afloat. The importance of missionary work at schools for the next generation is more important than ever. A Methodist law revision concerning school missionaries was made in 2015. School mis- sionaries are divided into "missionaries of the intern“ and "missionaries of educational missionaries," who passed the examination to be selected as mis- sionaries of the training institutions, and received confirmation from the Missionaries Selection Committee of the Ministry of Education and Missionaries of Education in Korean Methodist Church. The main contents of the revision to the "School Missionaries" management rules are changes in their intent and purpose. The revision also provided a revision to the dis- patch of missionaries to the school to efficiently conduct missionary work on the campus for the rehabilitation and development of the next generation (children, teens, and young adults), the future of the Methodist Church. Therefore, purpose of this study is to examine the present situation of Christianity reduction and the cause of decline of the next generation. Secondly, it examines the decrease of the schooling population and increase of the number of non–religions in the next generation. Third, the study will suggest the status of Methodist schools and the necessity of missionary work at private and public institutions. Finally, the study is to present a direction for the reform of the Methodist missionary management policy and the evan- gelization of private and public institution through the dispatch and manage- ment of missionaries.