Examining the Spiritual Growth in Korean Immigrant Christians at Holy Cross International United Methodist Church Through a Set of Spiritual Formation Retreats

Yoon-Seok Choi

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Examining the Spiritual Growth in Korean Immigrant Christians at Holy Cross International United Methodist Church Through a Set of Spiritual Formation Retreats

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Yoon-Seok Choi. Examining the Spiritual Growth In Korean Immigrant Christians At Holy Cross International United Methodist Church Through a Set of Spiritual Formation Retreats. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4bc02696-398d-4a13-a013-095404d694cd.

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Y. Choi. Examining the Spiritual Growth in Korean Immigrant Christians at Holy Cross International United Methodist Church Through a Set of Spiritual Formation Retreats. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4bc02696-398d-4a13-a013-095404d694cd

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Yoon-Seok Choi. Examining the Spiritual Growth In Korean Immigrant Christians At Holy Cross International United Methodist Church Through a Set of Spiritual Formation Retreats. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4bc02696-398d-4a13-a013-095404d694cd.

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This project examines the spiritual growth of Korean immigrant Christians through a set of spiritual formation retreats. The key concept of the retreats is to cultivate well-balanced spiritual life for Korean Christians. With three retreat participants, the researcher is seeking a tangible foundation for accomplishing a deepened spiritual life. While the Korean churches strived to achieve quantitative growth in a short time, they relatively did not pay much attention to the spiritual realm in thousands of years of Christian history. Marjorie J. Thompson provides a well-balanced spiritual formation retreat tool with her book “Soul Feast.” This book is used for the main tool for the intervention. Soul Feast contains ten sessions of spiritual formation themes including the spiritual thirst followed by reading the Word, prayer, common worship, worth of Sabbath, self-emptying, brief information of spiritual direction, hospitality, and making rule of life. The researcher facilitates the retreats for the participants so that they can experience a broaden realm of spiritual practice tradition. With pre and post in-depth interviews, the research examines the differences of each individual participant’s spiritual life practices. By interpreting the results, the researcher tries to find the positive factors as well as limitations found in the intervention.

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