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2025-2026 Bill 4479 Text of Previous Version (May. 01, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4479

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A house RESOLUTION

to CELEBRATE THE JOYOUS OCCASION OF THE FIFTIETH 
ANNIVERSARY OF THE Korean Community Presbyterian Church in Columbia AND TO 
CONGRATULATE AND HONOR Pastor Kim Jong-Hyun AND THE CONGREGATION FOR THEIR 
YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE Korean community in the Midlands.

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives is pleased to learn that the Korean Community 
Presbyterian Church (KCPC) of Columbia will hold a celebration of its fiftieth 
anniversary on July 20, 2025; and

Whereas, led by Elders 
Cho Ui-hyeok and Choi Young-ho, the church was founded by twenty people at the 
Campus Presbyterian Church Student Center on Green Street at the University of 
South Carolina. Reverend Kim Soon-kwon served as a temporary preacher, and late 
in 1975, the church began meeting at First Presbyterian Church on Marion Street 
in Columbia; and

Whereas, KCPC was 
founded to show God's grace and love toward the world, which was displayed by 
sending His Son Jesus Christ through His earthly ministry, death on the cross, 
and resurrection. The church exists to proclaim the good news of His love to 
all people in Jesus Christ, with the power and help of the Holy Spirit and the 
provision of God's grace through baptism and the Lord's Supper; and

Whereas, KCPC serves 
the local Korean community, functioning as a spiritual and cultural hub, 
offering services in Korean and English, and hosting events like the South 
Carolina Korean Festival, first held at the church location in 2005; and

Whereas, the church was 
registered with the state government as a nonprofit organization as the Korean 
Community Church in 1976, and in 1977, Pastor Kim Seon-bae was inaugurated and 
served until 1981. In 1978, the church joined the Presbyterian Church USA Konggari 
Presbytery and was renamed the Columbia Korean United Presbyterian Church 
(KCPC) and was organized as a church. Late in 1979, Wednesday services were 
begun; and

Whereas, in 1980, KCPC 
acquired an American church and relocated to Richland Street and opened a Korean 
school. That year a women's missionary society was organized, and the education 
center was remodeled. In 1981, the Young Adults' Association donated a van to 
the church; and

Whereas, the church opened 
an infirmary with doctors and nurses from this church in 1982, and an Andre 
Society (American) was organized the following year. On March 11, 1984, an 
inaugural service for the Sumter Korean-American Presbyterian Church was held, 
and later that year, the publication of Nagne magazine commemorated the ninth 
anniversary of the founding of the church. In 1987, the Korean Service Society 
was opened as an affiliate to the church; and

Whereas, the current 
minister, Pastor Kim Jong-Hyun earned a Master of Divinity from Presbyterian 
Theological Seminary, a Master of Theology from Duke Divinity School, and a 
Doctor of Ministry from Columbia Theological Seminary. He learned and served as 
a pastor at Dongan Church, Noeunwi Sungeui Church, Raleigh Presbyterian Church, 
Hanwit Sarang Church, and Grace Church. He was assigned to serve as pastor of KCPC 
in Columbia in March of 2022; and

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives commends the Korean Community Presbyterian 
Church in Columbia for a half century of ministry in and service to the 
community, and the members extend warmest congratulations on the occasion of 
the church's historic anniversary. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House 
of Representatives:

That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, celebrate 
the joyous occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Korean Community 
Presbyterian Church in Columbia and congratulate and honor Pastor Kim Jong-Hyun 
and the congregation for their years of dedicated service to the Korean community 
in the Midlands.

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