Bill's First Deputation
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Please pray and consider a partnership with Bill Majors, who is
sent out by CrossCulture Community Foundation.
Bill's first missionary deputation started
September 9, 2022 and he returned to Korea on November
16, 2022. He drove 8,000 miles, through 18 states, stayed in
53 homes, and stopped at 135 locations to meet such wonderful
people in those 68 days.
Summary of Bill’s story:
I (Bill) was raised in church and attended Christian schools operated by Baptist churches. I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior when I was eight-years-old. As a thirteen year old, I surrendered my life to be a missionary while attending a summer church camp. In college I majored in missions and met several foreign students who were studying at Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, TN. There, I became friends and roommates with Joseph Kim. Joe grew up in Korea with his missionary parents. His dad is Korean, Dr. Billy Kim and his mother is caucasian, Trudy Kim, who both met at Bob Jones University. Through Dr. Billy Kim’s introduction I was invited to a summer internship with Youth For Christ in Gwangju, Korea. I decided to graduate first before going to Gwangju.
In one week of 1982, I graduated from college, was ordained and sent out to Korea by my home church who promised to support me with $25 a month. I collected $900 in cash, and with a one-way ticket to Korea, I departed to serve the Lord in South Korea. During college I was impressed with Hudson Taylor’s testimony of living by faith written in one of his books, Spiritual Secret. I left the USA when I was twenty-one years old, single and full of zeal, but so naive about my future.
I served in YFC for six months, but felt frustrated while trying to learn Korean. I changed course and moved to Seoul to study the language at Yonsei University. Another missionary (Joe Hale) who was also in language school asked me to help him take boxes of clothes and books to an orphanage in Euijeongbu City. God used that experience to lead me into being a single, resident missionary in the children’s home for the next four years. In 1987, I married a Korean lady and we raised two daughters who are now married and living in Boston. After getting married, my ministry shifted from the orphanage to working at CBMC, Christian Business Men’s Committee (home stay program for foreigners during the 1988 Olympics in Seoul) and also to translating in Korean church worships for foreigners who were visiting or living in Korea. The number of foreigners in Korea grew rapidly through the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. In 1993, I was lead to return to the USA for seminary at Dallas Theological Seminary. While studying in Dallas I was hired as the English Ministry pastor at Korean Presbyterian Church (currently named Binnerri Church). That experience of serving as an English pastor in a Korean speaking church for 2nd generation and interracial marriages advanced my vision to focus on being a missionary/pastor to international people in Korea. In 1996, I returned to Young Nak Church in Seoul to start IWE, International Worship in English, which was focused on people from other countries. In 2004, along side a US Army chaplain, I helped start AIM, Association of International Ministries, creating monthly fellowship between English pastors and missionaries and creating annual joint worship on Good Friday and Christmas.
During the last thirty-four years, Korean churches have put me on part-time or full-time support while doing international ministries in their individual churches. However, I have learned that in the Korean culture and “at my current age” that I can be more effective under the status of a missionary/pastor taking on a broader focus to help multiple Korean churches and international ministries. Therefore I am currently on deputation raising funds as a “full-time missionary.” In 2019, a 501(c)3 was founded in 2019, CrossCulture Community Foundation, and 60% of the needed funds have been raised. FYI, CrossCulture is a term created with a double meaning of international, but also focused on the gospel (a culture demonstrated through God’s love in Jesus' life on earth and salvation at the cross).
As of 2022, a growing number, 1.6 million foreigners (of various religions) are now living in Korea. The motto in the 1988 Olympics was “The World to Seoul and Seoul to the World.” Now, the world came to Seoul and we have this opportunity to spread the gospel in Seoul and to be taken to the world. Please pray for me as a missionary/pastor in Seoul to the world.
So, I’m asking you for your prayers and support. Please partner with me.
In Christ’s love,
Bill Majors
www.CrossCulture-Community.com
