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Taiwan Church News
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3026 Edition
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February 22~28, 2010
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Taiwan Church News
3026 Edition
February 22~28, 2010
This week in
Taiwan Church News:
Editorial: Learning civics through understanding our nation’s history
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Presbytery helps single Christians
find a mate
As many as 66
Christians attended a quasi-group blind date, which included fun
self-introductions and bingo games especially designed to help participants
get to know one another. This meeting eventually resulted in 14 successful
matches.
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Church promotes speed-reading
through the Bible with meal vouchers
The church is
making Bible-reading a group contest so that members can encourage one
another to persevere. It is also offering meal vouchers as an incentive or
prize so that members will be more motivated to read their Bibles.
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Amid hesitation, Morakot victims
move into permanent housing units
The permanent
housing units and chapel in Pinlin Village
were funded and built by Tzu-Chi Buddhist Foundation. But construction
plans and house rules were decided without any consultation with residents
who would eventually live there, causing much controversy.
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Historical PCT church gets government support for audio-visual tourist
guide
The purpose of this film is to allow everyone who tours the church to
understand the history and beauty behind the building’s design. The
church’s building was built 113 years ago when Taiwan was still a Japanese
colony.
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Chinese human rights activists
offer Taiwan
a clearheaded view
Underneath
all the talks and promises, could ECFA result in a repeat of the 228
Incident? Taiwan Church News examines China’s freedom of religion,
freedom of the press, and freedom of information in recent years.
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Taiwan Church News
3024~3025 Edition
February 8~21, 2010
This week in
Taiwan Church News:
Editorial: Remembering our
Aborigine brethren during Lunar New Year
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Taiwanese NGOs support human rights
advocacy groups in China
February 4,
2010, marked a full year since the disappearance of Chinese human rights
lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group and several Taiwanese NGOs met up
on February 3 and urged Beijing
to respect human rights and free Gao and others
in similar situations.
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Cute red envelopes raise funds for
charities in time for Lunar New Year
Printed on the surface of these red
envelopes is a colorful and cute tiger and buyers have 6 different designs
to choose from. Designers came up with this idea to raise funds for
financially strapped social service organizations when donors decreased
contributions in the wake of a worldwide financial crisis and Typhoon
Morakot.
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Morakot victims fundraise for Haiti earthquake victims
The outpour of generosity and
compassion exceeded expectations. Some villagers, worried that their NT$100
donations wouldn’t be enough, were eager to do more. For most of them
though, NT$100 is approximately 80% of their wage for one whole workday.
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Teens explore theology, deepen
their faith through lively seminar
Chang Jung
Christian University’s
School of Theology held its first “Teens
Exploring Theology Day” recently. This lively and interactive seminar was
especially designed to attract junior and senior high school students and
pique their interest in theology.
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Teens visit Yi-Kuang Church,
see first-hand cost of democracy
Younger
generations in Taiwan
must remember the price people paid to make democracy possible in Taiwan.
Stories such as the Lin Family Massacre must never be forgotten.
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Taiwan Church News
3023 Edition
February 1~7, 2010
This
week in Taiwan Church News:
Editorial: Love isn’t merely a
handout to appease our consciences
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Taiwan’s first
street-based church set to begin on February
28
Justice-in-Action Church began when a bunch of Urban Rural Mission
(URM) lecturers and students got together and envisioned creating a place
where all social activists could meet and work together.
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Taiwanese churches rally in support
of Haiti
victims
Taipei’s
East Gate Presbyterian Church’s pastor, Rev. Lu Jun-yi,
is urging church members to consider fewer delicacies during Lunar New Year
banquets and donating red envelopes so that money can be saved toward
supporting Haiti
rescue efforts instead.
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ECFA, risky US beef, lack of food
self-sufficiency highlight Taiwan’s
food crisis
As Taiwanese people shop for Lunar New
Year items, food safety looms on the back of everybody’s mind, especially with
so many recent examples for tainted imported products in various
industries.
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Old missionaries’ legacies inspire future church
leaders and missionaries
A winter camp
for children was held in Tainan to nurture tomorrow’s church leaders and
instill in them a firm Christian foundation and Barclay’s spirit of service
and evangelism through film and lively activities to draw children’s
attention to the legacy of old missionaries.
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Church nurtures moral character,
faith through rite of passage ceremony
A rite of
passage ceremony was held for 12-year-olds for the purpose of conveying the
importance of faith and maturity in a person’s adult life. The ceremony
included skits and songs and every 12- year-old was given one fresh lily as
a token to celebrate this journey into adulthood.
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Important reminder: Please
note the next issue of Taiwan
Church News will be a
joint edition and it will be sent a few days later than usual because of
Lunar New Year holidays. Taiwan
Church Press offices will also be closed from February 15~18, 2010.
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Taiwan Church News
3022 Edition
January 25~31, 2010
This
week in Taiwan Church News
Editorial: Before you cast the
first stone…
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Young
Aborigines offered golden opportunity to study at Mackay College
Aborigine students in junior high school whose
test scores meet entrance requirements for Mackay Medicine, Nursing, and Management College’s five-year program will be
eligible for a full scholarship and a monthly stipend.
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New policy threatens Aborigine
autonomy and survival
For Aborigines in Taiwan, the recently passed
Local Government Act represented, yet again, a breach of trust by the Ma
administration and an about-face on campaign promises made to Aborigines.
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Local
church’s character education camp draws more than 500 students
With so many families having fewer children
nowadays, many Sunday schools or kindergartens are closing due to dwindling
enrollments. This trend has prompted churches to change their approach to
children’s ministries and reach out to children in their communities
through Saturday day camps.
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Mackay
Hospital offers healthy cooking tips ahead of Chinese New Year
For those hesitating on whether to order take out
food because it might be too oily and unhealthy, Mackay Memorial
Hospital is offering
New Year recipes that contain only 888 calories per individual serving –
free of charge.
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Mustard Seed Mission plans banquet
for Morakot victims ahead of Chinese New Year
Most of the residents in Shenmutsun
are single parent families or seniors who live alone, and more than half of
the residents are unemployed. The village remains a danger zone even after
last year’s Typhoon Morakot because of mudslides.
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Taiwan Church News
3021 Edition
January 18~24, 2010
This
week in Taiwan Church News
Editorial: Internet technology –
someone’s savior and someone else’s nemesis
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PCT head addresses Taiwanese elites
residing in US during vacation
All members
from Taiwanese Pen Society are Taiwanese professionals residing in the US. When
Andrew Chang addressed these people, most of them non-Christians, he
touched on disciplines such as spirituality and humanities.
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PCT and Catholic Church in Taiwan find
ecumenism in joint prayer
Archbishop
John Hung said that with more interaction, Catholics and Protestants would get
to know each other, opening the way for more opportunities to cooperate and
pray for unity.
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PCT focuses on women ministers on
eve of 60th anniversary
According to PCT
statistics, there are currently 358 women ministers within PCT in contrast
to 1,043 men ministers. In other words, the ratio of men pastors and women
pastors is 3 to 1.
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Mini-church with lofty goals shares
the gospel through social services
A mini-church
with no more than 10 people meeting regularly every Sunday has made a
commitment to God that it will build a national social services network to
help disadvantaged people.
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Diary of a Woman Minister –
reflection #1
“Diary of a
Woman Minister” is a column consisting of reflections from women ministers
in PCT written by various ministers. This column is one of the many
projects aimed at celebrating the 50th anniversary of the
ordination of women ministers in PCT. Taiwan Church News will run this
column throughout 2010.
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Taiwan Church News
3020 Edition
January 11~17, 2010
This
week in Taiwan Church News
Editorial: Building partnerships
and sharing God’s blessings
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Aborigine church proclaims Christ
through community clean-up
It’s harder for
villagers to darken a church door, therefore, the church is going the extra
mile in reaching out to the community. The ultimate purpose of sweeping a
main artery is to share the gospel through community service.
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Youth help others and experience
transformation through outreach ministries
According to
Wang, kids living in the city enjoy a good, material life but often feel dissatisfied.
Short-term missions can help them put things into perspective when they
realize how many kids in other parts of the world lack material resources
and yet are able to live happily.
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Language and financial barriers
prevent Aborigines from settling into city churches
According to
data gathered by PCT, it has lost more than 14,000 Aborigine members from
1995 to 2005. Many young Aborigines say that city churches can do more to
help Aborigines because urban migration is a trend that will likely
continue.
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Taiwan Church News
3019 Edition
January 4~10, 2010
This
week in Taiwan Church News
Editorial: Identify with the community; promote cultural dialogue
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PCT welcomes 2010, proclaims Christ at Fengchia Night Market
Themed “Jesus
is powerful”, the concert lasted six hours and included many fun
activities. Programs during the concert included Christian rock music,
dance routines, instrumental and choral performances, and a few
performances by renowned local artists.
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Church sows gospel seeds in schools
through Christmas play
Christmas season is a great
opportunity to preach the gospel to children, especially when churches are
invited into the schoolyard. One local church has been equipping its member
for some time to prepare them for such an occasion.
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Kindergarteners lead the way in
sharing the gospel
If you happen to stop by Huatan Market in Changhua on
the first week of every month, don’t be surprised to see a few
kindergarteners handing out gospel tracts to people on a morning shopping
errand.
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NETV confirms exit from cable
television; fights massive deficit
NETV has confirmed that all of its programs
will cease to run on cable television altogether by January 31 at the
latest. With a deficit of over NT$140 million, temporary furlough will also
be imposed until February.
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Taiwan Church News
3018 Edition
December 28, 2009~January 3, 2010
This
week in Taiwan Church News:
Editorial: Making 2010 the year of civic movements
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Looking back: 2009 news in review
From Rev. Rainer Schmidt’s
visit to reopening imports of “risky” U.S. beef, 2009 was quite an
eventful year. Check out what made the headlines of Taiwan Church News last
year.
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More than 700 inmates in Taiwan baptized during
Christmas 2009
Prison Fellowship Taiwan
alone baptized more than 700 inmates on that day across Taiwan when the number of
inmates baptized in each region was totaled. The most renowned inmate
baptized on that day was Huang Ling-chi, who made headlines last year when
he threw his daughter into a pot of boiling water.
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