The Buckhannon Presbyterian Church will be hosting Peacemaker Moon-Sook Lee, Saturday, September 27 in the Church basement at 6 p.m. There will be a light catered dinner followed by a 20-30 minute presentation by Moon-Sook Lee and an informal discussion on Peacemaking. Open to the public and RSVP is requested to Joe Reed, 472-2146 or jbreed1@frontier.com
On Sunday September 29, Moon-Sook Lee will be in the pulpit of the Buckhannon Presbyterian Church at 10 a.m. Moon-Sook Lee is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK). She has been an active ecumenical advocate for gender justice (including the full participation of women in church and society and the eradication of sexual violence and sex-trafficking), ecological justice, and peace and reconciliation on the Korean peninsula. She has organized multiple relief campaigns as well as national and international conferences focusing on the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.
Moon-Sook Lee is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK). She has served as the Executive Secretary of the Asian Church Women’s Conference (ACWC) since 2011. Prior to that, she was the Director of the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK), and General Secretary of the Korea Church Women United (KCWU).
She has been an active ecumenical advocate for gender justice (including the full participation of women in church and society and the eradication of sexual violence and sex-trafficking), ecological justice, and peace and reconciliation on the Korean peninsula. She has organized multiple relief campaigns as well as national and international conferences focusing on the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.
She has served as moderator of the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Reconciliation and Cooperation, as co-representative of the Women’s Division, South Korean Committee of the Joint Committee for Implementation of the June 15 Agreement (inter-Korean Summit 2000), and executive member of the Preparatory Committee for the Women’s Six-Country Talks, for which she visited the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Congress several times. She has served as a member of a civic lobbying group and as one of the ‘peace treaty’ campaigners of the National Council of Churches-Korea, sharing women’s civic and Christian perspectives and appealing for a peaceful resolution of the conflict on the Korean Peninsula.
