PCT Launches Missionary Project To Care Amis Urban Aborigines At Yilan Area

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Taiwan Church News
3465 Edition
July 23-29, 2018
General Assembly News

PCT Launches Missionary Project To Care Amis Urban Aborigines At Yilan Area

Reported by Her Chia-hen

To respond the ascending exodus of mountain aborigines into urban cities across Taiwan, a joint co-operation covenant among PCT’s Indigenous Mission Committee(IMC), Amis Presbytery and Ma-Tai-An Presbyterian Church was signed at Autumn session of the 56th Amis Presbytery’s general assembly on July 23.

In the meantime, under the support of Ma-Tai-An Presbyterian Church, missionary Pawlo was specially commissioned and effected immediately to plant church and care for Amis youth at Yilan area of eastern Taiwan.

Rev Namoh Arang, general secretary of Amis Presbytery, lamented that there were estimated about 2,500 Amis aborigines leaving their mountain tribes and then moving into urban areas. It’s very hard to know whether these emigrating aborigines were attending local churches or not, not to mention the real pastoral concern if their Christian faith were firmly practiced, said Rev Namoh Arang.

Rev Utux Lbak, secretary of PCT’s IMC, remarked that this missionary project was not only supported by a main vertical cooperation between Amis Presbytery and IMC but also blessed by a horizontal support from the neighboring Tayal Presbytery. Just like the psalmist praised, “How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!”, Rev Utux Lbak sincerely hoped there would be more missionary joint-cooperation lying ahead in the future!

Translated by Peter Wolfe

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