SEND International of Taiwan and its
Ministries
While the aboriginee of Taiwan have a Christian tradition, SEND mainly
works among the poorly or unreached Hanchinese in Taiwans cities. This
Taiwanese usually have a strong sense for family tradition and a
high respect for its partly animistic religious beliefs (this includes
ancestor
worship, folk-buddhism, taoism, folk religion, islam and christianity).
Since 1985 Taiwan worldwide ranks on top with the highest density of temples
per km/square and over 340 different gods to whom temples are dedicated.
Taiwanese keep up high the Confucian teaching like to work hard and
to study a lot. SEND
missionaries work in their own established churches, but also with
partner churches and a large church association. SEND is assisting this
association, Chung Cheng Tang, which keeps an aggressive churchplanting
strategy in planting churches among the almost unreached Hakka minority
still concentrating on the northern part of the island. In other churchplants
other parts of the Hanchinese and in Puli, the most southern churchplant
of SEND also aboriginees are reached with the gospel.
Besides, missionaries are teaching at Taocheng Theological Seminary,
Taipeh, developping the countries small missions movement and assisting
the national church with short term teams in their evangelistic outreach
efforts. SEND helps with English bible teaching. In some cases even
German
Bible studies have opened doors for more effective mission work. SEND's
ministry
includes evangelism, churchplanting, cell group leadership training,
Theological training and English teaching, disaster relief assistance through
local churches (Puli 921 earthquke) as well as teaching at the American
International School (Morrison Academy, Taichung,Yangmei and soon Chiayi).
Statistics:
1. Religion: Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese Folk religion, Christian, Islam,
Secular
2. Evangelical 5,3% (2,31% is a number from 1980! there was a
time of growth from 1994-1996, please look at the statistics of The
Year 2000 Movement www.ccea.org.tw
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