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The purpose of this research is to look into the first female elder of Gwangju and the "mother of Gwangju" Sosimdang Ah-ra Jo's life and spirituality, process of spirituality formation, social welfare practice fields and content, and the meaning of social welfare practice. Ah-ra Jo's spirituality can be represented by love, justice, honesty, vocation, and leading by example and her life was based on trying to live like Jesus and practicing sharing and serving. Her spirituality and love was learned from her devout Christian father who shared with poor neighbors and vocation and justice from Florence E Root, Elisabeth Shepping and non-possession and honesty from Heung-jong Choi, Young-heum Baek, Joon-mook Lee, In-se Chung, and from the YWCA activities she learned to lead by example. For specific social welfare practice, Seongbin Yeosa was for socially isolated war orphans, Honam Yeosuk a night school for poor girls who couldn't attend middle school, and Gyemyung Yeosa for prostitute relief center, Byulbit Institute to teach Hangeul, family legal counseling center to protect rights for those who have been legally violated and had nowhere to appeal, and establishing the guiding condition indictment delay system to improve the reality of adolescents who are stigmatized for trivial crimes. Ah-ra Jo's social welfare practice excludes the private management of social welfare institutions and establishes thorough publicness, client-based welfare practice rather than provider-based to enhance the pride of clients, the combination of social publicness and social service professionalism to obtain efficiency and professionalism of institution management, and has been evaluated that the facility-based protection has been elevated to a rights movement based on the clients.