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ILC General Secretary visits Korea and Taiwan

by | Apr 23, 2026

ILC General Secretary Dr. Klaus Detlev Schulz meets with LCK President Jong Ho Won and other Korean church leaders.

ASIA – In February, Rev. Dr. Klaus Detlev Schulz, General Secretary of the International Lutheran Council (ILC), visited with church leadership in Korea and Taiwan to discuss regional issues.

Dr. Schulz poses with LCK pastors who attended his lecture on Theological Anthropology and Sin.

During meetings with the Lutheran Church in Korea (LCK), Dr. Schulz and LCK President Jong Ho Won discussed the need to strengthen theological education for Lutherans in Asia, among other issues. The LCK noted its plans to launch a new certificate program in early 2017 to offer pastors in the region further training in Lutheran theology. The LCK will pay for all of its own pastors to take part in the program, and is hopeful other churches in the region will also participate.

During his time in Korea, Dr. Schulz also lectured on Theological Anthropology and Sin, a topic he explored in depth in a 2023 book of the same name published as part of the Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics series.

Dr. Schulz meets with CELC President Andrew Miao and other representatives of the church in Taiwan.

Dr. Schulz also visited Taiwan in February, during which time he met with President Andrew Miao and other leaders of the China Evangelical Lutheran Church (CELC). While in Taiwan, Dr. Schulz visited the CELC’s seminary and the Asia Region office of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod to discuss regional needs.

The International Lutheran Council is a global association of confessional Lutheran church bodies dedicated to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, grounded in the authority of Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions.

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Hong Kong’s Lutherans reelect President Yung

by | Jul 30, 2018

LCHKS President Allan Yung speaks at a 2014 event marking 65 years of Lutheran ministry in Hong Kong.

HONG KONG – The Lutheran Church Hong Kong Synod (LCHKS) held its General Conference on April 28, 2018, at which time Rev. Dr. Allan Yung was reelected as President.

This will be Dr. Yung’s eighth term as president. He has served the LCHKS as President since 1997.

A major subject of discussion during the 2018 General Conference were recent decisions by The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) to relocate its Asia region headquarters from Hong Kong to Taiwan, and to sell three Hong Kong properties. The LCMS announced in February its decision to relocate in order to “reduce costs and increase the church’s effectiveness in reaching the lost,” noting that Hong Kong is among the most expensive places in the world to work and live.

The move to Taiwan was also intended to “encourage and build up the LCMS partner church in that republic, the China Evangelical Lutheran Church (CELC),” the announcement notes. CELC President Andrew Miao welcomed the transition to Taiwan, saying he looked forward “to better and increased cooperation and partnership with the LCMS in the work of the Gospel here.”

At the time the relocation was announced, LCMS Director Charles Ferry pledged that LCMS support for the Lutheran Church Hong Kong Synod would remain unchanged. “We remain committed to supporting our partners in the Lutheran Church Hong Kong Synod,” he said. “Our church partners in Hong Kong and surrounding communities will notice no interruption in our work together.”

During their recent convention, the LCHKS recognized the LCMS’ legal right to sell properties it owns in Hong Kong, but expressed a desire for greater consultation in the future, especially since the LCMS owns several properties that are utilized by LCHKS congregations. To that end, the convention resolved unanimously to pray for the LCMS; to work for a greater relationship between the two synods founded in “Christian love cooperation, and mutual respect;” and to direct the LCHKS’ Executive Council to seek the legal transfer of LCMS properties used by LCHKS congregations from the LCMS to the LCHKS.

The Lutheran Church Hong Kong Synod was born out of LCMS missions, which first began in China more than a century ago. Both churches are members of the International Lutheran Council, a global association of confessional Lutheran church bodies.

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