Bill Majors

Bill Majors (born 1960) is an American Christian missionary to South Korea. He arrived in Korea at the age of 21 in 1982 and began working for Young Nak Presbyterian Church in 1988. He founded IWE in 1998 with the approval of Pastor Emeritus Rev. Kyung-Chik Han, who was the founder of Young Nak Presbyterian Church (1945) and the recipient of the 1992 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Majors, an Oklahoma native and a graduate of both Tennessee Temple University and Dallas Theological Seminary, also studied Korean at Yonsei University. In 2007, he entered the Doctor of Ministry program at Talbot Theological Seminary (Biola University) and his thesis proposal was approved on November 7, 2011.

Majors has served as a translator for Young Nak Presbyterian Church, the United States Army community in Seoul, and for five South Korean presidents at the National Prayer Breakfasts of South Korea. On May 1, 2005, he was made an Honorary Citizen of Seoul for "distinguished service" by then mayor and 17th President of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak. Majors's Korean citizenship (dual citizenship) was approved on June 29, 2012.

On July 29, 2012, Majors resigned as the lead pastor of IWE to begin a fellowship in Clinical Pastoral Education at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Majors was married in 1987 and has two daughters.