Taiwan Justice Action Church officially joins PCT

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October 11~17, 2010

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Taiwan Justice Action Church officially joins PCT



Reported by Sam Lee

Written by Lydia Ma

 

Taiwan Justice Action Church (TJAC) was welcomed as an official 
member of PCT on 

October 10, 2010. This church is the first “roadside church” in 
Taiwan with a vision to live out 

Christ’s gospel of love and justice through action.

 

TJAC was founded earlier this year as an extension of Urban Rural 
Mission (URM) when many 

URM members were inspired to follow Jesus’ example as an itinerant 
preacher of the gospel. 

Its founding members envisioned a church by the roadside and without 
a roof.

 

With this in mind, a few people began meeting at 228 Peace Memorial 
Park in Taipei and the 

church later began holding services and meetings at the park every 
week. Taipei Presbytery 

decided to sponsor this new church soon afterward. October 10 marked 
the day when TJAC 

officially became a PCT church.

 

Since its inception, TJAC has managed to attract about 50 people 
every week to its weekly 

outdoor services and about 70% of them are either Christian-seekers 
or non-Christians. They 

have slowly been introduced to the gospel and to Christianity.

 

A typical Sunday service at TJAC begins with a short fitness 
exercise. Seminars on various 

topics usually follow Sunday worship services. Because meetings are 
held outdoors, they also 

attract the attention of many a passerby.

 

In an interesting and newsworthy twist, the church’s Sunday service 
on October 10, 2010, which 

coincided with Double Ten National Day this year and was originally 
scheduled to be held at 

228 Peace Memorial Park in Taipei as usual, was relocated when the 
government closed the 

park to the public on that day.

 

Despite this inconvenience which served as a blunt reminder to many 
that Taiwan still had a 

long way to go in terms of justice and national sovereignty, more 
than 300 people gathered to 

attend Sunday service on that day.

 

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