Our Story

Retag Foundation was not formed from an abstract idea, but from lived experiences in real ministry contexts across different seasons of life.

In 2017, while exploring the possibility of studying at a seminary in the United States, our founder reached out to the school during a time of personal financial difficulty. The seminary happened to be hosting a “Student’s Day” event and, after learning about the situation, graciously offered to cover the airfare and hotel expenses so he could attend without burden.

This unexpected act of generosity left a deep and lasting impression. It revealed how timely, practical support can profoundly strengthen those who are preparing for or already engaged in ministry. That moment planted an important question: What if ministry workers everywhere could receive this kind of care when they need it most?

Later, while serving in a developing country through a government-operated overseas cooperation program, he witnessed another defining reality. Government-supported volunteers and missionaries were working side by side toward similar goals. Yet, the difference in their living conditions and support systems was striking. Missionaries, despite their commitment and calling, often lived with far fewer resources and significantly greater personal burdens.

It became clear that many ministry workers were carrying unnecessary practical hardships that limited their ability to fully focus on their calling.

During various ministry engagements, he also encountered numerous children of pastors and missionaries. Behind their quiet resilience were very real challenges — frequent relocations, financial instability, cultural displacement, and limited access to stable support systems. These young people, growing up in ministry families, were often overlooked despite bearing the indirect weight of their parents’ calling. This deepened the conviction that supporting ministry workers must also include caring for their families.

On another occasion, while searching for housing options, he learned of a missionary who had returned to his home country for medical checkups but had no place to stay temporarily. Although another mission organization was eventually able to help, the situation highlighted a simple yet urgent need: there should be safe and welcoming places of rest for missionaries when they return home physically exhausted and in need of care.

These moments were not isolated events. Together, they formed a clear picture of a gap in how the global church supports those who serve.

Retag Foundation was established to respond to that gap.

Retag exists to reconnect churches, families, and mission fields by providing practical care, financial support, prayer networks, digital community, and places of rest — so that pastors, seminary students, missionaries, and their families can devote themselves fully to their calling without avoidable burdens.

This is the heart behind Retag Foundation.

To reconnect churches, families, and mission fields by supporting those who serve through practical care, financial assistance, prayer networks, and digital community.

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Our Mission

Leadership

Aelic CHOI

aelic@retagfund.org |

Executive Director

What We believe

The Belgic Confession of Faith is the oldest of the historic doctrinal standards of the Reformed tradition and stands as one of the most faithful summaries of biblical Christianity. The name “Belgic” derives from the Latin Confessio Belgica, referring to the Low Countries of the sixteenth century, encompassing what are today the Netherlands and Belgium.

The principal author of this confession was Guido de Brès, a minister of the Reformed churches, who composed it in 1561 during a period of intense persecution under Roman Catholic rule. The confession was written not as an act of rebellion, but as a clear testimony that those who held the Reformed faith were committed to obedience to lawful civil authorities while remaining steadfastly loyal to the truth of the Holy Scriptures. In 1562, a copy of the confession was sent to King Philip II of Spain, accompanied by a declaration that its adherents were prepared to suffer persecution—even death—rather than deny the gospel it proclaimed.

RETAG FOUNDATION receives the Belgic Confession of Faith in its historic form, affirming it as a faithful and enduring expression of Reformed, evangelical, and biblical doctrine, written within a specific historical context yet grounded in the timeless authority of the Word of God.