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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
Red church with a dark tiled roof and a cross at dusk

Our church교회 소개

Fourteen families and a borrowed sanctuary열네 가정과 빌린 예배당

Saemaeul means 'new village'. That's what the founders hoped to build on this hill, and it's still the plan.'새마을'은 새로운 마을이라는 뜻입니다. 설립자들이 이 언덕 위에 세우고 싶었던 것이고, 지금도 그 계획은 같습니다.

Our history교회 연혁

Forty-three years on the Palisades팰리세이즈 언덕에서 43년

The building has changed and the lunch menu has grown. Dawn prayer has not missed a scheduled morning since the first one.건물은 바뀌었고 점심 메뉴는 늘었습니다. 새벽기도는 첫날부터 지금까지 정해진 아침을 한 번도 거른 적이 없습니다.

  1. 1983

    Sunday afternoons at Grace Lutheran그레이스 루터교회에서 주일 오후 예배

    Fourteen families rent a Lutheran sanctuary on Center Avenue for 2 PM services, and the first dawn prayer meets in a member's living room.열네 가정이 센터 애비뉴의 루터교회를 빌려 오후 2시에 예배드리고, 첫 새벽기도는 교인 가정 거실에서 모입니다.

  2. 1989

    The English Ministry beginsEM 시작

    Eleven teenagers ask for a service in English. The session says yes, and they meet in the church kitchen.열한 명의 청소년이 영어 예배를 요청합니다. 당회가 허락하고, 교회 주방에서 모이기 시작합니다.

  3. 1997

    A building of our own예배당 구입

    The congregation buys a 1920s Methodist church on Anderson Avenue, raising the down payment through bazaars and a decade of envelopes.앤더슨 애비뉴의 1920년대 감리교회 건물을 구입합니다. 계약금은 바자회와 10년 동안의 헌금으로 마련했습니다.

    A building of our own
  4. 2004

    Korean School opens한국학교 개교

    Twenty-two children on the first Saturday. Half of them are not from church families.첫 토요일, 스물두 명의 어린이. 그중 절반은 교인 가정이 아니었습니다.

  5. 2015

    The first EM elder첫 EM 장로 장립

    A member of that first teenage English class is ordained to the session, which now governs in both languages.첫 영어 예배 청소년 중 한 명이 장로로 장립되고, 당회는 이제 두 언어로 회의합니다.

  6. 2026

    Kimjang for 200 households200가정을 위한 김장

    The December kimchi day grows from church families to the seniors in two Fort Lee apartment buildings.12월 김장이 교인 가정을 넘어 포트리 시니어 아파트 두 곳까지 확대됩니다.

What we believe신앙고백

Presbyterian, in plain words쉬운 말로 하는 장로교 신앙

We hold to the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Apostles' Creed. Here is the short version.우리는 웨스트민스터 신앙고백과 사도신경을 따릅니다. 간단히 정리하면 이렇습니다.

  1. I

    God is in charge하나님의 주권

    God made the world, keeps it, and is working out his good purposes in it, including in our immigrations, our jobs and our families.하나님은 세상을 지으시고 붙드시며, 우리의 이민과 직장과 가정 안에서도 선한 뜻을 이루어 가십니다.

    Romans 8:28

  2. II

    Saved by grace은혜로 받는 구원

    We are made right with God through faith in Jesus Christ, who died and rose again. Not by effort, attendance or reputation.죽으시고 다시 사신 예수 그리스도를 믿음으로 하나님과 화목하게 됩니다. 노력이나 출석이나 평판으로가 아닙니다.

    Ephesians 2:8–9

  3. III

    Scripture first성경 중심

    The Bible is God's word and the final authority for what we believe and how we live. We read it together every morning at dawn.성경은 하나님의 말씀이며 신앙과 삶의 최종 권위입니다. 우리는 매일 새벽 함께 성경을 읽습니다.

    2 Timothy 3:16

  4. IV

    Led by elders장로 정치

    The church is governed by a session of elders elected by the congregation, together with the pastors, accountable to the presbytery.교회는 교인들이 선출한 장로들과 목회자로 이루어진 당회가 다스리며, 노회 앞에 책임을 집니다.

    Acts 14:23

  5. V

    One body한 몸

    First and second generation, Korean and English, belong to one church with one membership roll and one table.1세와 2세, 한국어와 영어 회중은 하나의 교적부와 하나의 식탁을 가진 한 교회입니다.

    1 Corinthians 12:12

Pastors and session교역자와 당회

Who leads the church섬기는 분들

Write to any of us directly. Elders answer their own email.누구에게나 직접 연락하셔도 됩니다.

Pastors

  • Rev. Baek Hyun-woo백현우 목사Senior pastor since 2011담임목사 (2011–)

    pastor@example.org(555) 014-6621

  • Pastor Joel Nam남요엘 목사English MinistryEM 담당

    em@example.org(555) 014-6622

  • Pastor Ruth Kang-Whitley강루스 전도사Children and youth교육 담당

    kids@example.org

Session

  • Elder Choi Byung-ho최병호 장로Clerk of session당회 서기

    session@example.org

  • Elder Andrew Shin신앤드류 장로First EM elder, ordained 2015첫 EM 장로 (2015)

    session@example.org

  • Elder Hwang Kyung-ae황경애 장로Finance and the Korean School board재정 · 한국학교 이사

    finance@example.org

Office

  • Han Ji-eun한지은 교장Korean School principal한국학교 교장

    school@example.org(555) 014-6625

  • Mrs. Jung Eun-hee정은희 간사Church office, Tue–Fri교회 사무실 (화–금)

    office@example.org(555) 014-6620

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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