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Presbyterian Heritage Sunday, May 19, 2002 Witness the Good News: Our Mission Heritage in Korea Educational efforts in Korea Embroidery class taught by Anabel Nisbet at the Mokpo Girls' school. Click for enlargement. In addition to medical and evangelistic work, Presbyterian missionaries also focused their efforts on education. When mission work began in Korea, few schools existed and those limited entrance to the sons of upper class families. In the beginning, small, often informal groups met in the missionaries' homes. By 1910, PCUS mission education facilities totaled sixty-three primary schools and four academies offering advanced courses. Even though the Japanese (who annexed Korea in 1910) placed severe restrictions on all private schools, enrollment tripled by 1916. Anabel Major Nisbet (d. 1920) and her husband, the Rev. John Samuel Nisbet (1869-1949), were typical of missionaries during this period. While Anabel's work primarily centered on education, the Rev. Nisbet served evangelical and administrative as well as educational roles. Anabel and John Nisbet, ca. 1910 (detail). Click for enlargement. "The first year we were here [Chonju 1907] we taught in a little native house over in the city about a mile from our home. In bad weather the bridge between us and the city would be swept away....This was so hard on me that Mr. Nisbet finally decided he would have to build a school house nearer home or get a new wife, and perhaps it would be cheaper to do the first. So we built with our own money a little school house." (Anabel Nisbet, 1910)   Introduction Part 1: The First Presbyterian Missionaries in Korea Part 2: The Tates and the PCUS in Korea Part 3: Educational Efforts in Korea Part 4: Ecumenical Efforts and the Korean Church   Bibliography   Heritage Sunday 2002 Main Page

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