Free of charge hospital
for those who are in need
Holy Family Welfare Hospital
With our staff, volunteers, and benefactors, we seek to create miracles everyday for our brothers and sisters in need.
Free of charge hospital
for those who are in need
Holy Family Welfare Hospital
We surveyed the local community to start a hospital for those in need; we found that many of our neighbors lived in poverty and illness without medical care.
Nov. 1st 1989 | Initiated research for conversion |
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May 30th 1990 | Closure of regular hospital |
July 23rd 1990 | Commencement of free care |
Founding mission
Holy Family Welfare Hospital is a medical welfare institution that serves the purpose of the Little Servants of the Holy Family. We provide medical care for those who are in poverty and in need; through this we become one family under the love of God.Operating Principle
1. We serve those who are sick and living in povertyWe serve | Those defined by law to be under the poverty line, the homeless, foreign workers |
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We provide medical care in |
Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Opthalmology (eye), Dentistry, Ear Nose and Throat, etc (search homepage for more options) |
We are open |
Tues – Sat 9:00 to 16:30 (closed on Sunday, Mondays, and National Holidays) |
Food Kitchen
We provide a free warm lunch twice a week (Tuesdays and Saturdays) for the homeless and senior citizens living alone since April of 1998.“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.“
Foundation of the Little Servants of the Holy Family
The Little Servants of the Holy Family was founded on Dec 25th of 1943 by a member the Foreign Missionary of
Paris,
Father Pierre Singer (1910-1992), becoming the first local Catholic order in Seoul.
At the time of foundation, Korea was deeply under the influence of the Second Great War; Father Singer
witnessed
numerous orphans, injured soldiers, and the elderly with whom nobody to provide care. Father Singer
established the
order to give care to the poor. Members of the Little Servants of the Holy Family are dispatched to the
poor, and we
perform the mission of our Lord through compassion.
Founder of the Little Servants of the Holy Family
(pierre Singer,1910-1992)
Born : Sept 13th, 1910
Entered the Foreign Missionary of Paris in 1928
Ordained as priest on July 7th, 1935
Dispatched to Korea on July 7th, 1935
Foundation of the Little Servants of the Holy Family: Dec. 25th, 1943
Father Singer lived as a follower of Jesus our Lord, giving love to those who are poor and in need. Father Singer passed away on the 26th of Feb. 1992; we at the Holy Family Welfare Hospital follow his spiritual journey to give ourselves wholly to those we seek to serve.
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