wfn.org | WCRC elects Taiwanese youth Lu Yueh-wen as VP

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>3045 Edition

>July 5~July 11, 2010

>WCRC elects Taiwanese youth Lu Yueh-wen as VP

>Reported by Sam Lee

>Written by Lydia Ma

Besides making a splash in sports news recently, Taiwanese youth  grabbed 
headlines in

church news as well when Lu Yueh-wen was elected as one of the  vice-presidents 
of the newly

formed World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC). WCRC appointed  1 president

and 4 vice-presidents at its Uniting General Council held in Grand  Rapids, 
Michigan.

PCT General Secretary Andrew Chang used this occasion to encourage  PCT youth to

become active participants in ecumenical events and put their  talents to good 
use on the

>international stage.

Chang encouraged Lu, a youth from Seven Stars Presbytery’s  East Gate Church, 
to accept

this great and important responsibility. He said he was confident  PCT youth 
possessed many

necessary skills needed to excel on the international stage.

Change returned from WCRC on June 29 and reported with excitement  on several

achievements witnessed during his trip. Not only was a Taiwanese  elected to 
become a vice-

president, WCRC also passed a motion to write to the United  Nations in support 
of Taiwan’s

participation at international organizations and Taiwan’s  existence as an 
independent country.

Commenting on WCRC passing a motion that’d pave the way for  its Executive 
Committee to

write to the UN, Chang said the passing of this motion was nothing  short of a 
“miracle”,

because the same motion had failed to pass 7 years ago at  WARC’s general 
assembly, and

>Taiwan was even cast as a troublemaker then.

However, after Chang became PCT General Secretary in 2005, PCT  changed its 
strategy

concerning ecumenical exchanges. In the past few years, it has  focused instead 
on inviting

various church leaders to Taiwan and being good hosts during such  visits so 
that those who

come to Taiwan may realize how vastly it differs from China and  support PCT 
efforts once they

>understand Taiwan better.

WCRC’s motion is proof that efforts in the past few years  were not only 
worthwhile, but the

change in strategy was also the right decision. Chang also thanked  Taiwanese 
churches

abroad for their efforts in making all of these accomplishments  possible.

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