Paiwan Presbytery promotes “One-leads-One” through discipleship and indigenous urban churches

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Paiwan Presbytery promotes “One-leads-One” through discipleship and indigenous 
urban churches

Reported by Sam Lee

Written by Lydia Ma

Paiwan Presbytery held a mission research forum on January 3-4, 2012 to help 
its local churches promote “One-leads-One, New Doubling Movement”. Based on the 
theme of “Mission Overhaul!”, presbytery officials stressed on the importance 
of discipleship training as the foundation for church growth at this forum and 
introduced the PCT General Assembly’s new discipleship teaching materials. 
Their hope is that these materials would strengthen and help local churches in 
evangelistic ministries and urban church planting ministries.

The slogan for the presbytery’s “One-leads-One” movement is “Ari ari ari! Vaiki 
a dingdu!”, which is translated as “Let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s 
evangelize together!” Paiwan Presbytery’s goal for 2015 is to have at least 72 
churches, 15,000 members, 7,500 regular Sunday service attendees, and send at 
least one missionary overseas.

Paiwan Presbytery General Secretary E’leng said that Paiwan Presbytery had 
10,622 members as of 2010, with 4,923 people attending Sunday services 
regularly. Geographically speaking, Majia Village had the most number of 
members while the Hengchun Peninsula had the least number of members. 
Furthermore, an increase in Paiwan indigenous churches is expected in urban 
areas for the next few years.

E’leng went on to underscore that the most important aspect of “One-leads-One” 
is to leave a Christian legacy for the next generation. He added that the 
training courses would serve as a way to equip people to share the gospel with 
others and from these new Christians, a new generation of missionaries, 
Christian entrepreneurs, and Christian scholars would arise and exert a 
positive influence on society.

According to Rev. Lavuras from Liangshan Presbyterian Church, who shared his 
experiences in leading small groups and training disciples at this forum, 
training must begin at home where each member receives God’s word. Using his 
congregation as example, he said he divided 160 families into 11 small groups 
and trained new leaders through small group meetings. About 40 people from 
these small groups are now able to lead and counsel other people in their own 
groups.  

In order to provide systematic training to its members, PCT General Assembly 
New Doubling Movement Center recently published a series of teaching materials 
for discipleship training. The series consists of 32 books published in 
collaboration with Taiwan Church Press. Some topics in these books include 
“spiritual devotion”, “proclaiming the gospel”, “establishing relationships”, 
and more. These books also contain life-application materials for each stage of 
a person’s spiritual life, progressing from non-Christian, Christian seeker, 
Christian believer, to Christian disciple.

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