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A society co-existed with various cultures, languages, customs, and the ways of living in one country, so-called Multi-cultural Society, used to be one of the most urgent problems the western world had to face at the end of 20th century. However, at some point, the wave of changes into “multi-cultural society” hit South Korea as well. In few years, the subject of multi-culture has become one of the most important topics in our societySouth Korea has become a society where cannot survive without depending on the childbirth and the labor force of foreign workers. We cannot make the globalization we want, only with our own power and things. But we still insist on unilateral globalization, only focusing on Korean culture and stuffs. Our attitude toward solving the problems of multi-cultural families has not been able to break away from one-sided thoughts like, “how can we make them adjust to our culture more quickly?” or “what’s the most effective way to get the labor force needed from foreign workers?The ultimate purpose of programs and services for multi-cultural families should be to help marriage migrant women and their family members, so they can live a valuable life as members of our society. This means the shift of paradigm that the married migrants become ones communicating with the local communities, make their own voice, and be able to find their existence as productive members of communities. With this paradigm shift in mind, this study examined the role of church activities in enhancing social cultural adjustment abilities among married immigrant women. More than two hundred married immigrant women residing in Kyung-gi Do were surveyed. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis are used to analyze the study questions. The findings revealed that married immigrant women were more likely to participate in church activities if they were highly educated, had high Korean-language skills, experienced more economic hardships, and had higher social-cultural adjustment capacities. Based on the findings, the contribution of this study and implications for programs and practice were discussed in married immigrant women’s empowerment in church activities. In addition, Few cautions and principles that needed to be considered for the ministries with multi-cultural families were suggested. These suggestions included securing professionalism, maintaining durability, setting directionality, securing connections, promoting education within a church, and developing programs that can be actually helpful to multi-cultural families outside the church community. It was particularly emphasized that The education for multi-cultural families should be done in two ways: One is to educate the already existing members of church. The education about multi-cultural families’culture to get rid of any repulsion and stereotype, and motivate the members to get engaged into the ministry is important. The other is the education for married immigrant women outside the church. The ministry has to take responsibility over the education of Korean culture, the social welfare system, the family system, and religion not only for married immigrant women inside the church but for those outside the church.
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Missionary Work for Multi-cultural Families, Married Immigrant Women, Multi-cultural Social Welfare, Socio-cultural Adjustment
