2010 is the year that is blessed and praised because it is the centennial since 1910 Edinburgh World Missionary Conference was held. To celebrate the conference, the academic research and the opening of the festival in Edinburgh will start on June 2nd, 2010 until the 6th. In Korea, it will be held this year on June 22th until the 25th. Promoter groups are being held to prepare for the Korea Conference. The main character for 1910 Edinburgh World Missionary Conference was John R. Mott(lS65-1955). As a Methodist layman, the chairman of Student Volunteer Movement(SVM), and of YMCA, he traveled the world twice to observe the flow and the direction of the current world missions. In particular, in January until April 1907, Mott experienced Pyengyang Revival Movement when he vis￢ited Pyengyang Jangdaehyeon Church in Korea. Afterwards he held the first World Missionary Conference with the slogan, "The Evangelization of the World in this Generation" in Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 14th, 1910 until the 23rd. Out of the delegates who attended the conference, one thousand-two hundred registered with excitement, and 160 missions or missionary society attended with great response. Thankfully, fifteen Korean representatives attended and reported more about the early Korean churches. The leading figures were Samuel A. Moffett, Horace G. Underwood, James Gale etc.
Before the conference was held in Edinburgh, missionary conferences were held intermittently throughout different areas, but never got the attention as the world conference. The first Missionary Conference was held by Alexander Duff in 1854 in New York, afterwards it was held in liverpool in 1860, London in 1888, and with a greater size it was held in New York in 1910. However, in 1910, Edinburgh World Missionary Conference can also be called a "How Mission" conference as well. To achieve the world evangelization, eight subject committee constructed the question, "How should a church carry out a mission effectively?" John Mott and the delegates came down with the conclusion that cooperation and unity is the key necessities for the world evangelization. First of all, this article observes the historical background of 1910 Edinburgh World Missionary Conference, the subject of the conference, the arrangements and operations of the conference. Furthermore, this paper has a purpose to evaluate the eight subjects on Edinburgh World Missionary Conference, to introduce the elements of the positive impact and the adjustments, and to propose the desired direction for the 21st century Korea missions.