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This study reconstructs female-headed single-parent families from the perspective of the educational-pastoral responsibility of Korean churches. Rather than conducting a new empirical survey, it integrates the 2024 Survey on Single-Parent Families, Korean practical-theological and Christian-counseling research, biblical-theological exegesis, and discussions on adult educational ministry and pastoral care. The study interprets the current situation of female-headed single-parent families in Korea not as a single problem of insufficient income, but as a complex burden involving unstable employment, childrearing and educational expenses, unpaid child support, legal vulnerability, housing and time poverty, relational isolation, and invisibility within the church. It critiques the deficit model that regards these families as failed or abnormal and argues that they should be understood as households that bear childrearing, livelihood, and faith formation within weakened social support systems. The study then examines the biblical foundation for caring for widows and orphans in Deuteronomy, Kings, Luke, Acts, James, and the Pastoral Epistles. Although ancient widows and contemporary female-headed single-parent families cannot be simply equated, Scripture consistently testifies to God’s justice and compassion toward households whose protective networks have been weakened and to the responsibility of the covenant community toward them. Finally, this article proposes an integrated educational-pastoral model composed of six stages: Recognition, Gateway, Community, Care, Service, and Multiplication. This model includes the reform of preaching language, confidential pathways into care, intergenerational mentoring, connections to counseling, welfare, and legal resources, the faith formation of children, and service according to gifts. Ultimately, the purpose of this study is not to fix female-headed single-parent families as recipients of aid, but to lead them toward belonging, restoration, formation, and service within the body of Christ, so that the church may be built up together with vulnerable families rather than marginalizing them.

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I. Introduction
II. Methodological Orientation and Research Problem
III. Revising Pastoral Categories: Family, Singleness, Women, and Care
IV. Current Situations in Korea
1. The 2024 Survey as the Primary Social Reference Point
2. Income, Employment, and the Poverty of Sufficiency
3. Childrearing and Education Costs
4. Child Support and Legal Vulnerability
5. Social Support, Stigma, and the Church
V. Reinterpreting the Problems: From a Deficit Model to a Complex-Burden Model
1. Economic Burden as Structural Pressure
2. Role Overload as Time Poverty and Care Concentration
3. Loneliness as Relational Invisibility
4. Children’s Needs as Faith-Formation Needs
5. Public Pastoral Care and the Limits of Privatized Compassion
VI. Biblical-Theological Foundation: Widows, Orphans, and the Household of God
1. Old Testament: Widows and Orphans as a Test of Covenant Justice
2. New Testament: Jesus, Widows, and the Organized Care of the Church
3. Analogy without Reduction
VII. The Ecclesial Problem: Present in the Church, Invisible in Ministry
VIII. Integrating Single-Adult Ministry and Women’s Ministry without Reducing Either
1. Single-Adult Ministry: Life-Stage and Life-Situation Together
2. Women’s Ministry: From Fellowship Program to Adult Formation Platform
IX. An Educational-Pastoral Model for Korean Churches
1. Recognition: Change the Church’s Language
2. Gateway: Create Safe and Confidential Entry Points
3. Community: Combine Peer Support and Intergenerational Mentoring
4. Care: Integrate Pastoral, Counseling, Legal, Welfare, and Child-Faith Support
5. Service: Move from Recipients to Co-Workers without Exploitation
6. Multiplication: From Program to Reproducible Ministry Culture
X. A Twelve-Week Cohort Curriculum
XI. Conclusion
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• Moon, Jin Hyoung [ Baekseok University ]

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표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  신학과 실천 [Theology and Praxis]

• 간기

  연5회

• pISSN

  1229-7917

• 수록기간

  1997~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 230 DDC 230