A warm welcome to our lovely visitors from ECW National Episcopal Church Women! From May 9-19, 2025, we were very honoured to welcome Lisa Bortner, National ECW President, and Virginia (Ginny) Guzman-Walsh, Province VIII ECW Vice-President & Representative on the … Continue reading Welcoming the Wonderful ECW (Episcopal Church Women) to Taiwan!
Congratulations to the Taiwan Episcopal Church and to Christ Church, Chungli on becoming a parish, and on achieving this upgrade in status in only 13 years! Thanks be to Almighty God! We celebrated at a Thanksgiving Service at Christ Church … Continue reading Big Celebration Day! 中壢基督堂成立牧區 Christ Church, Chungli Becomes a Parish!✝️
Welcome to the newest church in the Diocese of Taiwan, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Linkou! ✝️ Set in a new high-rise residential area in Linkou, on Taiwan’s NW coast, not far from the freeway that links Taipei City to Taoyuan … Continue reading Church-Planting News! Opening of St. Thomas Church, Linkou ✝️ 台灣聖公會林口聖多馬堂
The latest edition of our diocesan Friendship Magazine, June 2022, is just published online, and the printed version will be coming out soon. I’m the editor of this publication, so please read ~ and pray for us! It contains news of all our 15 churches, photos, updates, and articles. We really appreciate all your support. Thank you! It’s published under Friendship Magazines in the English section of the diocesan website: https://episcopalchurch.org.tw/ and also here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18uNKbrMb29LkohavgYF0NbvHBkmVzsEz/view Blog posts always look better with a photo – so this is from Advent Church last Sunday, red for Pentecost! Happy Pentecost to you all … Continue reading Diocese of Taiwan New Friendship Magazine Just Published!
Today was THE day! Christ Church, Chungli finally has a real home to call its own! Yes, after 7 years of using rented buildings for worship and outreach, Christ Church now has its own building. Today we all gathered for … Continue reading Consecration of the new Christ Church, Chungli (Zhongli), Taoyuan 聖公會基督堂祝聖新堂感恩禮拜!
A whole year of 60th anniversary celebrations at St. John’s Cathedral, Taipei was brought to a very fine and very fitting end yesterday afternoon ~ with a special thanksgiving concert, with choirs and music groups from Good Shepherd Church, St. James’ Church, Christ Church, and of course St. John’s Cathedral. There was St. John’s Cathedral Choir…. Good Shepherd Choir…. St. James’ Church Choir….. And Christ Church…. We had short 3-minute speeches (well, 3 minutes was the allocated time, which caused much laughter – as some definitely went on just a bit longer!) from former deans and clergy in charge of … Continue reading St. John’s Cathedral, Taipei 60th Anniversary Thanksgiving Concert!
Yes, baby Tien-Ai 天愛 has arrived safely in the world, thanks be to God! She was born on August 4 in Taipei, so she’s 4 weeks old today ~ YES! She’s the gorgeous brand-new baby daughter and first child of Rev. Joseph Jui-En Ho 何睿恩牧師 and his beautiful wife, Angel (Pei-Yin)! Until July 31, Joseph was vicar of Christ Church, Chungli, Taoyuan. On August 1 he started as vicar of St. Mark’s Church, Pingtung, which is the opposite end of Taiwan from here. That’s quite a big change all in one week ~ a new baby and a new church! Joseph … Continue reading Congratulations 何睿恩牧師 Joseph and 何師母 Angel on the birth of baby 何天愛!
And they’ve brought the sun with them too ~ ah, at last, the weather is great! The Diocese of Taiwan has had a companion link with the Diocese of Osaka since 2004, and so there’s been regular church group visits to and fro for different occasions. Since their last visit, for our 60th anniversary celebration in April 2014, the Diocese of Osaka has a new bishop, Bishop Andrew Haruhisa Iso. So Bishop Iso has brought a group to Taiwan this week, primarily to attend the opening service and first session of our annual diocesan convention, which starts tomorrow. Sadly our … Continue reading From the Diocese of Osaka, Japan ~ a big welcome to Taiwan!
Catherine Lee 