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History of Young Nak Church and English Ministry

Young Nak is celebrating 30 years of God's Blessings. Our God has been merciful and graceful with us. He has watched us and nurtured us to go from a handful of excited individuals to the size of church that we have today. This is God's grace in action.

English Ministry is celebrating a fifteen years of existence this year. In January of 1992, the English speaking adults separated from the youths to form the official adults English Ministry. This was approved by the Youngnak Church session with the selection of five leaders, officially titled, "deacons" to lead the adult English Ministry with Rev. Minho Song as pastor.

1977 Nov 13				Young Nak Presbyterian Church of Toronto begins with eighty adults and children at Don Way United Church. Rev. Jae Kwang Kim is called to be the pastor.
Dec				Young Nak moves to Don Mills United Church at Pape and O'Connor.
1979 Dec				Young Nak files for and becomes an active member of the Presbytery of Canada in the Korean Presbyterian Church in America (KPCA) denomination.
1987 Nov				Rev. Suk Hwan Lee joins the Young Nak pastoral staff as associate pastor.
1988 Jul				Minho Song joins the Young Nak pastoral staff in charge of English-speaking ministry. He is ordained at Youngnak on April 1990.
1989 Nov				Rev. JK Kim retires and Rev. Suk Hwan Lee is called to become senior pastor of Youngnak.
1991 May				Young Nak purchases and moves into 185 Bartley Drive (17,000 sq.ft.).
1992 Jan				Adult English Ministry begins with Rev. Minho Song as pastor. Five deacons are appointed for EM by the Young Nak session and the EM Board begins.
1995 May				Peter Yi relieves the education responsibilities from Rev. Song when he joins the Youngnak pastoral staff in charge of education and youth. He is ordained at Young Nak on Sept 1996.
1997 May				Young Nak purchases and moves to 650 McNicoll Ave, our present location. Building project to improve the church begins.
Nov				With impetus from Rev. Song and the English Ministry, Young Nak officially adopts the Kyrgyz people of Central Asia as the church mission focus.
1998 Aug				The first short-term missions team to Kyrgyzstan is sent — from EM. This will become an annual event for EM.
1999 Jan				Rev. Kyu Young Choi joins the Young Nak pastoral staff in charge of Korean college &young adults.
Jun				Young Nak finishes the building project with 1,200 seat sanctuary and 65,000 sq. ft. indoor space for gym and classrooms.
Nov				Young Nak commissions the Chois and the McIsaacs (financial partnership with EM) to the Kyrgyz people at Kyrgyzstan.
2000 Jan 1				Rev. Hyun Yong Lee joins the Young Nak pastoral staff as associate pastor of missions and visitation.
May				Pastor Minho Song concludes his ministry at Youngnak EM.
Jun 4				Pastor Song’s commissioning service. He heads to the Philippines with the family that night.
Jun				Rev. Jin Oh Bae joins the Young Nak pastoral staff in charge of EM.
2003 July 31				Jin Oh Bae resigns as pastor of EM to be succeeded by Rev. Peter K. Yi August 1 2003.
Sep 1				Albert Chung joins Young Nak as pastor of English Education and Youth.
Oct				Young Nak English Ministry begins its second Sunday worship service.
2004 March 20				Rev. Suk Hwan Lee succumbs to a sudden blood infection and is called home to the Lord.
Oct				Rev. Minho Song is installed as senior pastor of Young Nak Presbyterian Church.
2006 Dec 12				Ten EM deacons are ordained.