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Taiwan Video 3: Knowing Taiwan

Wednesday September 23, 2009   ~   1 Comments

owmap-l.gifWe have been here in Taiwan for about half the week and we have seen some remarkable settings, fruitful ministry, and spiritually hungry people.

Be sure to check out the posts thus far:

Taiwan Video 1: Meeting and Learning from Pastor Chen

Taiwan Video 2: Ancestor Worship and Taiwanese Christians

As we talk to pastors, local leaders, and just everyday people, we regularly hear two things:

1. Taiwan is a difficult field. Operation World explains:

Taiwan remains the only major Han Chinese population in the world where the spiritual breakthrough has yet to come. During the 1990s the influence of Buddhism grew markedly with a large increase in adherents (800,000 in 1983 to 4.9m in 1995). Many of their outreach techniques have been adapted from Christians. Ancestor worship is one of the major barriers to faith in Christ. Added to this is the materialism stimulated by the rapid rise of living standards. Pray that every obstacle to the reception of the gospel may be broken down.


2. The heart religion is primarily animism and ancestor worship.

Take a look at this video to better understand the situation in Taiwan.

Please pray for the people of Taiwan so that the name and fame of Jesus might be more widely known here.

Posted on September 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM   ~   1 Comments

Tagged with: missions, Taiwan, upstream, video

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1 Comments

By Ana on September 25, 2009 10:54 AM

I really appreaciate the video posted. I would love ot hear more about the ideas, tactics, methods, etc. the organization has found successful for reaching the popuplation there. My church works a lot with international students and a big majority are from China and needless to say we find this to also be an obstacle here as well.

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