Taiwan: Church Leaders Visited Taiwan PMM Missionaries

August 20, 2007 Taipei, Taiwan

Pastor John Ash III, Taiwan Conference president, facing his retirement after 37 years of long service for Chinese people, greeted four guests at the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport in Taiwan. Dr. Jairyong Lee, President; Don Upson, Treasurer; Kwon JohngHaeng, Adventist Mission Director and Song SungSub, Media Center Manager of the Northern Asia-Pacific division (NSD) planned to visit frontline churches which have been started by the Pioneer Mission Movement(PMM) missionaries from Korea.

The Taiwan Conference rented a van for six days from July 1 to 6, 2007 to visit 14 PMM churches and several other churches in the mountain areas along the east cost of Taiwan. Each of the PMM missionaries reported on how he started his work, planted a new church, and what method of soul winning he used. Several of the PMM pastors invited newly baptized members to share their testimonies on how they became Adventists.

Mr. Lien Jung Ping, a business man who gave his testimony was a Mormon for 10 years and was a lay leader of that church. He was very happy to find present truth in the remnant church as a result of Bible study with a PMM pastor. During the visit, the visitors came across two different groups of 10 women who came to Taiwan to help with PMM evangelism. They not only purchased their air tickets on their own, but also brought all the gifts and materials to help in the evangelistic series.

One of the groups from the Midwest Korean Conference collected money to donate a van and two air conditioners for a PMM church. “I am very impressed by the work of the PMM pastors who started with nothing”, Elder Don Upson, NSD Treasurer said on his first journey to Taiwan, “now each of them have 15 to 20 attendees every Sabbath and they made the city aware of our church.”