Mar
24
2016
For part of my training as a Bible Translation Adviser, I was invited to attend the United Bible Societies (UBS) 2016 Global Bible Translation Research and Development workshop in Antalya, Turkey, March 6-12.
This was the first time in my...
Jan
20
2016
Dear Readers,
Let me draw your attention to this happy news from the Moderator and the General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT) entitled: "May Taiwan become a country blessed by God".
http://english.pct.org.tw/preview.aspx?IssueID=133
Note also the appeal to partner churches...
Nov
30
2015
Sunday November 29, 2015. Ping-tung, Taiwan.
The Drekay Bible translation team asked me to preach today at Laladhengane / Mei-yuan美園 / Beautiful Garden Presbyterian Church. My friend and coworker Rev Pelenge (陳松得牧師 General Secretary of the Drekay Presbytery) translated my...
Nov
14
2015
Tainan, Taiwan – Sunday, October 25, 2015 – Dressed in their traditional colours, indigenous people by the hundreds walked joyfully into the stadium at Chang-rung High School carrying baskets of millet, fruit and vegetables as thank offerings to God and...
May
04
2015
Dedication and Thanksgiving Worship Service
Eight versions of the book of Proverbs were dedicated on April 9, 2015 during a multilingual worship service at the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan's General Assembly meeting at Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei. Each version...
Apr
30
2015
15,000 Presbyterians gathered together on 復活節 Easter Sunday April 5, 2015 to praise our risen Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We filled the Lin-kou sports stadium with the sounds of a symphonic orchestra, a combined church choir of 400...
Feb
18
2015
On Easter Sunday April 5, 2015, the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT) will celebrate the 150th anniversary of modern Christian mission work in Taiwan. Soon after English Presbyterians arrived in the south (1865) and Canadian Presbyterian George Leslie Mackay...
May
05
2014
Today I heard the news that my dear friend and co-worker Elder Liau Tet-thiam passed away. He died peacefully on April 30, 2014 at the age of 95. We knew each other for 30 years.
When I first met Elder...
Apr
16
2014
The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan invites our prayers for its 1250 churches over this Easter weekend, then April 22-25 when the PCT will hold its 59th annual General Assembly meeting. One of the main events will be to inaugurate...
Apr
16
2014
On Thursday April 10, the several hundred university students who had taken over Taiwan's Legislative Yuan and occupied it for 24 days left the building peacefully. (For more details please see: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/04/11/2003587763)
One of their principal demands was partly achieved...
