Taiwan Church News
3822 Edition
May 26 ~ June 1, 2025
Weekly Topical
A Real Taiwanese! Rev John McCall, Missionary of PC(USA), Granted a Taiwan ID Card
Reported by Lin Yi-ying from Taipei
Rev John McCall, a missionary of Presbyterian Church(U.S.A.), who has been served in Taiwan for nearly 27 years, received his Taiwan ID card at the Shi-Lin District Office in Taipei City on May 23. Rev McCall says, “I am honored to receive Taiwan government’s approval today, and now I am a real Taiwanese!”
However, he expresses that he is set to go back home in US and report his ministries in Taiwan to PC(USA) on June 24. He will not come back and carry on his service in Taiwan, unless he would be called by God to carry on the missionary service here. “Granted a Taiwan ID card is only to ensure my precious opportunity to come back to serve,” he says.
Rev John McCall graduated from Duke University in the United States and planned to become a lawyer initially. Later, he was called by God to enroll in Princeton Theological Seminary to prepare for a pastoral service for the church. On March 3, 1996, he was sent to Taiwan by the PC(USA) to serve the PCT churches in Kacedas Payuan (Eastern Papuan presbytery) and Pinuyumayan Ethnic Group in Taitung respectively.
In 2009, Rev McCall returned to the United States to accompany his mother due to her old age. More than two years later, under the call of God, he returned back to Taiwan to serve as a missionary for nearly 27 years.
Rev McCall remarks that he have visited about 800 churches all over Taiwan so far and abundantly blessed by the faithful witness of many Christians which inspired him so much. “I really love Taiwan, because there are so many people who have helped me and loved me first,” Rev McCall remarks.
He is scheduled to meet the PCT brothers and sisters at Kacedas Payuan presbytery on June 3rd and 4th. After attending a farewell meeting at Presbyterian Bible College at Hsin-Chu on June 8th and 9th, he will fly back to the United States on June 24th.
“I must obey the will of God, as His ways are higher than my ways. My dear pastors, co-workers, brothers and sisters in Taiwan, please remember me in prayers,” he says.
Translated by Peter Wolfe
