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>      Taiwan Church News

>3006 Edition

>October 5~11, 2009

Taiwan pastors prepare to sow gospel seeds at Schmidt’s  evangelical rallies

>Reported by Lin Yi-ying

>Written by Lydia Ma

In preparation for Paralympics champion and Christian pastor  Rainer Schmidt’s

tour of Taiwan in mid-October, PCT affiliated network New Eyes  Television

(NETV) will air a series of commercials promoting Schmidt’s  events beginning

>October 1.

NETV has invited 20 pastors to air commercials lasting 40 to 45  seconds each

to promote Schmidt’s upcoming tour. These pastors will do one  commercial

each which will later be aired on NETV. Pastors will appeal to  Christians during

this commercial and urge them to participate in evangelism by  inviting at least

>one friend to the rally.

Schmidt’s first rally will be held on October 16 at Tam Kang  High School in

Taipei and sponsoring organizations will include PCT, Tam Kang  High School,

Chang Jung Christian University, Tunghai University, Eden Social  Welfare

Foundation, Taipei Table Tennis Association, and other  non-Christian

>organizations.

As a Christian media, NETV is helping in the promotion of  Schmidt’s rallies by

inviting well-known retired and current pastors to air commercials  in Taiwanese,

Hakka, Mandarin and other languages. Each pastor will first share  one verse

from the Bible and then invite Christians and non-Christians to  attend the rally

>and bring their friends along.

Rainer Schmidt was born on February 18, 1965, in Germany. He did  not have

either arms and one of his legs was shorter than the other, which  required him to

wear prosthetics. Schmidt was also colorblind from birth and was  considered an

>infant with multiple disabilities.

Despite these limitations, he took up table tennis at the age of  12 and began

training professionally in 1978. He joined Germany’s national  Paralympics team

in 1983 and participated in seven Paralympics where he won four  gold medals

and 3 silver medals. He also competed in world and European  tournaments in

both individual and group competitions and medaled numerous times.

In 2008, Schmidt decided to gradually retire from competitive  table tennis and

become a coach, full-time pastor and counselor. He is also a  writer in his spare

>time.

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