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THE ANNUAL PULI REPORT OF 2000 (by A.R. Haudenschild)
The main goals of 2000 was to help the church
- to use the Puli Earthquake Relief Funds to equip the church with means to help
- overseeing of reparation at the church building after the earthquake with funds from SEND
- to introduce a functioning model of a cell group within the home groups
- to teach and to write down a cell group handbook for the leaders in Chinese
- to introduce Christian Christmas Music for the evangelistic Christmas Night program
- to begin with a cell group using Fukien Chinese as their conversational language.
- to build an evangelistic team

With the exception of the the evangelistic team we have reached the goals. Lucy and Isidro Co have  helped with a visitation ministry from August to October on several week days. In September the  Grace University students with their evangelistic efforts helped to meet the need for proclaiming the  gospel to the unreached in Puli and had an impact in changing the direction of the working dynamics  in the Canaan cell group in a very positive way. The Canaan cell group as a result of the earthquake  went through difficult months with a tuff working schedule for the many teachers in the group.  Therefore the introduction of the "cell group model" only begun as late as
August 2000. Among  those who were benefiting from SENDs Relief Fund entrusted to the church for distribution we had around 35% responding to the gospel positively.

2. Assignment in the Sending Function Committee (Year 2000)
Goals:
- to increase SENDs popularity among churches in Taiwan (web site, program, meetings)
- to add the numbers of mission friends
- to have a short term trip to Eastern Russia for evangelistic work among Chinese (Blagovescensk)
- to have a mission prayer meeting established in Taichung
- to find national church leaders willing to help creating a mission council
(- to fast improve ways of recruiting Chinese for mission with a personal multilingual web site)

In all of this goals was progress. The popularity of SEND Taiwan's SFC was increased at the TMF
Conference in July, Taichung, where we had a sending mission exhibition, at TAICCOM 2000 (29-31 October), a evening about mission with the church's teens and the beginning of a mission  prayer group in Puli by November 28. In addition I was in charge of editing the text of SFC's web  site in Mandarin as well as in Hakka.There was considerable progress in both Chinese languages to the point that the Mandarin part almost was launched by the end of the year 2000. Also I wrote a letter to the mission department of the Presbyterian Church Taiwan responding to Pastor Hsueh's  offer of cooperation with SEND's SFC in terms of training and sending of
missionaries to SENDs missions fields. The Year 2000 Movement in an interview with James Shia expressed willingness of cooperation with SEND Taiwan's SFC especially regarding training, end sending of missionaries. Finally the Defentang hearing about the planned mission prayer in Taichung decided to start with a mission
prayer in Puli too. The SFC was invited to help to have this meeting running.A team needs to be build who continues to keep it running.

3.TMF Representative in the Year 2000 (special TMF Report follows later)
Goals:
-To represent SEND's interest within TMF
-To prepare and lead the TMF summer conference well
-To find a suitable successor for TMF chairmanship
-To improve the working structure within the TMF Executive Committee
-To help TMF to become an associate member of Evangelical Fellowship of Asia
-To increase awareness for the urgent need of mission education within the national churches
-To have an agreement with the Chinese Christian Evangelistic Association for Cooperation

All of this goals were met. The conference closed with  NT$ 47,511.-  in the black, compared with the fact, that the budget was almost double as much as two years ago, this is an astonishing result. On the first two evenings Chinese nationals were free of charge. At this evenings translation into Mandarin was provided. The conference committee prepared a special program for  almost 60 teens in conjunction with Jack Elwoods team.  Besides, I wrote a working manual for the conference preparatory committee for further use. TMF has sent in the application papers to FE for associate membership and is waiting for their response soon. According to a personal email of Francis Sunderaraj, the general secretary of EFA, the acceptance of this request will not be a problem. All of this encouraging results can not hide the fact, that TMF's place and philosophy needs to be understood anew in Taiwan's missionary context from a new generation of missionaries who mostly only have a faint idea about TMF's history and therefore can not identify themselves  with its vision. Currently I am serving in TMF as SENDs Rep as the TMF-Liason for Evangelical Fellowship of Asia, EFA and the Chinese Christian
Evangelical Association, CCEA (formerly called "The Year 2000 Movement")

4. Building of Relationships in Community in the Year 2000 (Rita)
Goals:
- To finish  the Montessori kid's training education course (3-6 yr.)
- To have a place for Jonathan to build relationships with Chinese of his age
- To develop friendships with educators for children and parents in Puli
- To contribute with Christian values and idea to build the newly founded Study Tree Kindergarten

- To teach kid's German as a means to help the kindergarten and to have Jonathan there for free
- To have an ideal environmental setup for Jonathan with his asthma where he can grow up.

All of these goal could be reached. Particularly the German teaching part was welcomed. The other teachers were encouraged by the superintendent several times to learn from Ritas style of teaching kids German. At the occasion of  St. Claus (Dec 6) and Christmas we were welcomed to educate the kindergarten (kids, parents, teachers) about the Christian background of these days. We had a lot of fun with all of them by playing and telling stories of Santa Claus and the Jesus babe.

5.Chairmanship of Language and Orientation Committee
To this area a special report will follow as soon as needed.
6. Care taking of House on Canaan (belongs to the Ev.Sisterhood of Mary)
Goals:
- to complete the extensive reparation work at the living house, garden house, chapel, book office.
- to seek for ways to change the garden into a safer place (the trees were too high and dangerous)

Both goals were met. At the moment the whole garden is changed into a beautiful park of recreation.
In order to reach the above mentioned goals a lot ofDIY working and managing time went into that. That's why it should be noticed.
Finally we are thankful to the LORD for all strength and enthusiasm he gave us to do the job.

Puli 10. January 2001

Respectfully submitted ,
Alain Haudenschild