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새Saemaeul
Register as a new family새가족 등록
Home홈Worship예배Dawn prayer새벽기도New family새가족Next generation다음세대Our church교회 소개
새Saemaeul
Home홈Worship예배Dawn prayer새벽기도New family새가족Next generation다음세대Our church교회 소개

1460 Anderson Ave, Fort Lee, NJ 07024

(555) 014-6620

office@example.org

Register as a new family새가족 등록

새벽기도 · Livestream새벽기도 · 실시간 중계

Pray with us at 5:30, from a pew or from your kitchen.새벽 5시 30분, 본당에서든 부엌에서든 함께 기도해요.

We stream the first thirty minutes every morning, Tuesday to Saturday. After the message the camera stays on the cross while the room prays.화요일부터 토요일까지 매일 처음 30분을 중계합니다. 말씀이 끝나면 카메라는 십자가를 비추고 모두 함께 기도합니다.

In this service

Earlier mornings지난 새벽기도

Also on YouTube, KakaoTalk

Sun glowing through morning fog and trees

Next live · Live · 86 watching

Now 묵도와 종 · Silent prayer and bell0:00

Thursday dawn prayer: Psalm 63목요 새벽기도회: 시편 63편

Rev. Baek Hyun-woo백현우 담임목사

Why so early?왜 새벽인가요?

A Korean habit, a hundred and twenty years old120년 된 한국 교회의 습관

Korean Presbyterians have prayed before sunrise since 1906, when an elder in Pyongyang named Gil Seon-ju began meeting a few friends in the church before work. The habit crossed the ocean with every family that founded a church here, ours included.한국 장로교회는 1906년 평양에서 길선주 장로가 출근 전 몇몇 교인과 교회에 모여 기도하기 시작한 이래로 해 뜨기 전에 기도해 왔습니다. 이 습관은 이곳에 교회를 세운 모든 가정과 함께 바다를 건넜고, 우리 교회도 그렇습니다.

Nobody is required to come. Most of us come when something is heavy: an exam, a diagnosis, a son who stopped calling. You don't have to say what it is. The room is quiet, the coffee is hot, and the door opens at 5:10.꼭 와야 하는 자리는 아닙니다. 대부분 마음이 무거울 때 옵니다. 시험, 진단, 연락이 끊긴 자녀. 무슨 일인지 말하지 않아도 됩니다. 본당은 조용하고, 커피는 따뜻하고, 문은 5시 10분에 열립니다.

"O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee." Psalm 63:1, KJV"하나님이여 주는 나의 하나님이시라 내가 간절히 주를 찾되" 시편 63:1

The sanctuary본당

When you can come and pray기도하러 오실 수 있는 시간

Outside dawn prayer, the sanctuary stays open for anyone who wants to sit and pray. Use the side door on Palisade Terrace.새벽기도 외에도 본당은 기도하고 싶은 분들께 열려 있습니다. 팰리세이드 테라스 쪽 옆문을 이용하세요.

Open for prayer지금 기도 가능Closed now지금은 닫혀 있음

Closes at닫는 시간 Opens여는 시간

today오늘tomorrow내일

Need someone to pray with you right now? Call the church phone after 5 AM and it rings through to the pastor on duty.지금 함께 기도할 사람이 필요하신가요? 새벽 5시 이후 교회로 전화하시면 당직 목사님께 연결됩니다.

When you can come and pray
Monday월요일Today오늘Closed닫힘Staff day off교역자 휴무
Tuesday화요일Today오늘5:10 AM – 7:00 AM9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday수요일Today오늘5:10 AM – 7:00 AM9:00 AM – 9:30 PMWednesday worship at 8 PM오후 8시 수요 예배
Thursday목요일Today오늘5:10 AM – 7:00 AM9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Friday금요일Today오늘5:10 AM – 7:00 AM9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday토요일Today오늘5:40 AM – 8:00 AMDawn prayer starts at 6:00 on Saturdays토요일 새벽기도는 6시
Sunday주일Today오늘7:30 AM – 2:00 PMBetween services예배 사이

Special mornings특별 새벽기도

  • Mon–Sat, Nov 16–2111월 16–21일Special dawn prayer week특별 새벽기도 주간 Every morning at 5:30, including Monday, with guest preachers.월요일 포함 매일 5시 30분, 초청 강사.
  • Fri, Jan 11월 1일New Year's morning신년 새벽 예배 Midnight service, then dawn prayer at 6:00.자정 예배 후 오전 6시 새벽기도.
Hand lighting a candle in a dark church

Prayer requests기도 요청

Tell us what to pray for tomorrow morning내일 새벽에 함께 기도할 제목을 알려주세요

Write in Korean or English. You don't need to give your name.한국어나 영어로 쓰세요. 이름은 쓰지 않으셔도 됩니다.

Who may see this?누가 볼 수 있나요?

Demo form. Nothing is sent or stored.데모 양식입니다. 전송되거나 저장되지 않습니다.

Thank you감사합니다, .

Your request will be prayed for at 5:30 tomorrow morning.내일 새벽 5시 30분에 함께 기도하겠습니다.

What happens next그다음에는

  • Prayed for at dawn새벽에 기도합니다By the people you chose, starting the next morning.선택하신 분들이 다음 날 새벽부터 기도합니다.
  • Deleted after 30 days30일 후 삭제Requests are never filed or forwarded.기도 제목은 보관하거나 전달하지 않습니다.
  • A call only if you ask원하실 때만 연락In Korean or English, whichever you wrote in.작성하신 언어로 연락드립니다.

In danger right now? Call 911. For crisis support any time, call or text 988; Korean interpreters are available.지금 위급하신가요? 911에 전화하세요. 위기 상담은 언제든 988로 전화나 문자하세요. 한국어 통역이 가능합니다.

새Saemaeul

A Presbyterian congregation on the Palisades since 1983. Korean and English worship every Sunday, dawn prayer five mornings a week, and lunch for everyone at 12:30.1983년부터 팰리세이즈 언덕 위에 있는 장로교회입니다. 주일마다 한국어와 영어로 예배하고, 주 5일 새벽기도를 드리며, 12시 30분에는 모두 함께 점심을 먹습니다.

Find us오시는 길

  • 1460 Anderson Ave, Fort Lee, NJ 07024
  • (555) 014-6620
  • office@example.org
  • Sun 8:00 · 9:30 EM · 11:00주일 8:00 · 9:30 EM · 11:00
  • Wed 8:00 PM수요일 오후 8:00
  • Dawn prayer Tue–Sat 5:30 AM새벽기도 화–토 오전 5:30
  • Home홈
  • Worship예배
  • Dawn prayer새벽기도
  • New family새가족
  • Next generation다음세대
  • Our church교회 소개
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Design notes

Why Saemaeul looks the way it does

A site for a Korean-American Presbyterian church where the parents worship in Korean, their children in English, and everyone eats lunch together afterwards. Every important line exists in both languages, and the home page greets both congregations at once instead of making one of them click a flag.

Built for
First-generation Korean families and grandparents, second-generation young adults in the English Ministry, spouses who don't speak Korean, and Korean families new to Bergen County looking for a church and a Saturday school.
Navigation
Tabbed app bar. Pages behave like tabs in an app: a sticky segmented bar under a compact header.
Pages
Home, Worship, Dawn prayer, New family, Next generation, Our church
Hero
a mirrored bilingual opener: the same welcome written in two languages, each with its own service times, shown together on purpose so both congregations are greeted first. Variants: a = two columns that face each other across a centre rule, with a wide photo beneath; b = one headline set large with its translation directly beneath like an interlinear text, a shared timetable and a portrait photo; c = a full-height photo beside a printed-programme column where each language has a hanging label; a short action form as the hero: the one thing most visitors came to do (request a ride, ask for help, register a child) can be done before they scroll, with reassurance beside it. Variants: a = headline, reassurance and a photo on the left with the form as a raised card on the right; b = a tall photo carrying the headline, with the form and reassurance on a plain panel beside it; c = headline beside a photo, then the form laid out as one horizontal booking bar; livestream-first: the opening screen is the stream itself, with a live or next-stream badge and countdown, a play control, the service chapters and a route to past services, for churches whose online congregation is as real as the room. Variants: a = headline above a large screen with the chapter list in a side panel; b = a full-width cinematic screen with the headline over it and chapters running beneath as a strip; c = headline and a chapter timeline in a left column beside the screen

Typography

Gowun Batang is a Korean book face with brush-stroke terminals, and its Latin letters were drawn in the same hand, so an English headline and its Korean translation can sit on consecutive lines without looking like two websites. IBM Plex Sans KR handles the reading text in both scripts at the same weight. Line spacing is set generously at 1.72 because Hangul blocks are taller and denser than Latin lowercase.

Color

The green is celadon, the glaze on Goryeo pottery, taken darker so it passes contrast as a text color. The persimmon accent comes from dancheong, the painted eaves of Korean temples and palaces, used sparingly for times and live badges. The page color is a pale green-gray rather than a cream so it reads as paper without falling into the usual beige.

Layout and navigation

A tabbed app bar fits a congregation that already lives inside KakaoTalk and banking apps: six tabs, always visible, no menu to open. The language switch sits beside the logo, and every heading, button and table label changes with it. Pages are named for what people actually do here, such as Dawn prayer, New family and Next generation.

The hero

The opening sets one sentence large in English with its Korean translation directly beneath, the way a bilingual hymnal prints its verses. It says the true thing about this church in one breath: parents pray in Korean, children sing in English, and lunch is shared. Both service times sit in one timetable underneath so nobody has to switch language to find their hour.

Calls to action

The tab bar's button is "Register as a new family" (새가족 등록), because in Korean churches registration is the real next step and the welcome team acts on it the same week. Dawn prayer gets its own action, with a livestream, because many members pray along from their kitchens before driving into the city. Korean School enrollment is the third, and it is often what brings a family through the door the first time.

Photography

Photos favour hands, Bibles, tables, early light and the building over posed crowd shots. Portraits on the welcome team are Korean-American faces, and Mrs. Yoon's portrait appears both with her quote on the home page and on the team list, so she is recognisably the same person. The dawn prayer page opens on fog and first light instead of a worship stage: at 5:30 the room is half-dark and nobody is performing.

Accessibility

Each language is marked with its own lang attribute so screen readers switch pronunciation correctly. Body text is 17px with contrast above 4.5:1 in both themes. The interpretation headsets, step-free side entrance and large-print hymnals are mentioned where people plan their visit, not on a separate page.

Type system

  • DisplayGowun BatangA brush-informed Korean book face whose Latin was drawn alongside the Hangul, so a headline and its translation share one voice.
  • TextIBM Plex Sans KRPlex carries matching Hangul and Latin at the same color, and the extra leading gives Korean syllable blocks room to breathe.

Colour and contrast

Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.

Light theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa14.53:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa16.07:1AAA
Secondary textAa5.78:1AA
LinksAa6.91:1AA
Button textAa7.88:1AAA
Accent label textAa5.35:1AA
Text on dark bandsAa14.53:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa7.75:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa7.88:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa5.25:1AA

Dark theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa15.43:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa13.76:1AAA
Secondary textAa6.85:1AA
LinksAa9.52:1AAA
Button textAa9.77:1AAA
Accent label textAa8.63:1AAA
Text on dark bandsAa16.34:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa8.22:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa9.77:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa5.79:1AA

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