Missionary Introduction

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  • Marie Adeline Wooders

  • Academic background : University of Minnesota Nursing School
  • Background and affiliation : United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.(UP)
  • Period of mission work in Korea : 1963∼1964.
  • Period of mission work at Dongsan Hospital : 1963∼1964.
1. Marie Adeline Wooders worked as a nursing missionary at Dongsan Christian Hospital

Marie Adeline Wooders was born on May 15, 1898. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1933 with a degree in nursing and was the principal of the nursing school at Bergen Hackensack Hospital in New Jersey, where she was an excellent educator of nurses.

Wooders retired after serving as the head of a nursing department at a large hospital in Detroit after completing her nursing school's principal, and later visited Korea as a nursing missionary under a dispatch from the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

She served the hospital and nursing school as a nurse at Dongsan Christian Hospital, and especially gave advice on all programs on nursing school operation and education. Wooders was able to build a seven-story nursing school building with a $600,000 donation from the 4th Presbyterian Church in Chicago to meet the needs of the nursing school building. To this end, the 4th Presbyterian Church in Chicago raised missionary expenses by selling used clothes at the church every Saturday for two years.

Wooders was called by God on March 20, 1989, at the age of 91.

Marie Wooders at the graduation ceremony of the 30th Dongsan Christian Hospital Nursing School

Marie Wooders, who worked at Dongsan Christian Hospital