Mission life: THE KUKMIN DAILY

“Speed the day when we can walk over the barbed wire fence carrying the cross”

2015-08-26 16:35

It’s 7:30 p.m. on August 24, at Zoe Hall in the Korea Christian Building, Jongno-gu, Seoul, and this is the “69th Monday Prayer Meeting for Peaceful Reunification,” sponsored by the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK; Hwang Yong-Dae, moderator). Three women walk to the front of the hall carrying barbed wire, a plow and a cross; they place them below the pulpit and pray for peace on the Korean peninsula. As their performance ends, the 30 some worshippers pray earnestly that the South-North Korean military confrontation will be resolved through dialogue.

Since March last year, the PROK General Assembly has held the Monday Prayer Meeting for Peaceful Reunification following the pattern of St. Nicholas Church in the former East Germany. The various PROK organizations, including its committees, its 24 presbyteries and its schools, take turns leading the event each week. On this day it was the turn of the Peaceful Reunification Committee of the PROK National Church Women’s Association.

Though tensions have been alleviated by the high-level South-North agreement on the 25th, the PROK General Assembly has decided to continue the “Monday Prayer Meeting for Peaceful Reunification,” along with the “Prayer Movement for South-North Peace” with its three minutes of prayer every midday. The 70th Monday Prayer Meeting for Peaceful Reunification will take place at 7 p.m. on the 31st at the same venue.

Reporter Yang Minkyeong (grieg@kmib.co.kr), with Marion Kim (marionkkim@icloud.com)
Photo by senior reporter Kang Min Seok


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