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Pastor Kim Nam-soo has long questioned the gap between the resources invested in missionary work and the resulting fruit.
In the beginning, the problem was how to use the church's resources for missions as efficiently as possible.
Over time, it has evolved into a concern for effective and strategic mission methods.
Especially during the same period, other religions and ideologies did not engage in any noticeable large-scale missionary work.
As I witnessed this rapidly expanding phenomenon, I felt the lack of a Christian mission strategy.
These questions began to find a solution through my experience as a medical missionary in North Korea.
While conducting a medical mission in North Korea, I witnessed that North Korean children and teenagers were receiving systematic ideological education from a young age.
This experience made the pastor aware of the importance of early education for children and youth from various religions and ideologies.
This also provided important implications for Christian missionary strategies, and it became a major turning point in missionary strategies.
In this process, Pastor Kim Nam-soo analyzed the “10/40 Window” strategy introduced by Dr. Louis Bush, who was the most famous at the time.
The “10/40 Window” strategy focuses on the area between 10 and 40 degrees north latitude on Earth, primarily non-Christian areas such as Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist.
It was a strategy to strengthen missionary work. However, this strategy was mainly a geographical concept and lacked a generational strategy.
Pastor Kim Nam-soo emphasized the need for a new strategy that focuses on children and youth to improve this.
Pastor Kim Nam-su came to recognize that even within Christianity, there is a need to strengthen investment and education in children and youth.
This realization marked a major turning point in mission strategy, and the pastor insisted that children and youth should be placed at the center of mission.
He especially emphasized that evangelizing to children aged 4 to 14 will be the core of future missions.
Based on research showing that children at this age are more receptive to the gospel and more likely to maintain their faith throughout their lives,
We saw a need for focused investment and education targeting these groups.
This was the first missionary strategy to insist that the target of missionary work should be children and youth.
To concretize the missionary strategy, Pastor Namsu Kim met with Dr. Luois Bush in New York in 2008 and discussed it.
The numbers represent their age groups, the 'window' represents the passage, and the mission strategy represents the purpose of the church's existence, which is to spread the unchanging gospel to the world.
It was defined under the name “4/14 Window Movement”.
This movement recognized children and youth as the main agents of mission and aimed to pursue transformation of the church and society through them.
In 2009, the 4/14 Window Movement officially began.has been,
The inaugural Global Summit brought together mission leaders from around the world to discuss and share the need and importance of this new mission strategy.
This mission strategy is a long-term project that is continually evolving and expanding to bring about positive change for the next generation.
This movement seeks global change through the church's deep concern and investment in the next generation and the current generation.
It is becoming established as a methodology to continuously strengthen the expansion and influence of Christianity.
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