Ms. Evangeline Y. J. Dai and Professor Annie Y. P. Tsai were ordained as deacons by the Rt. Rev. Lennon Y. R. Chang, Bishop of Taiwan at St. James’ Church, Taichung, at 10:30 am on Saturday, June 6, 2026. The … Continue reading Two New Deacons for the Taiwan Episcopal Church: Congratulations to Rev. Evangeline Y. J. Dai 戴佑真會吏 & Rev. Annie Y. P. Tsai 蔡亞平會吏!
Taiwan’s Lantern Festival is just the best ~ I love it! It’s one of my favourite festivals every year. There’s so much colour everywhere, and this year I was especially delighted to welcome my good friends from the UK, Nicky … Continue reading Welcoming Nicky & Harriet to Taiwan! 🏮🐴🧋☀️
Seventy years! Yes, 70 years of sharing the good news of Christ on this green and beautiful island that we call home, but that the world knows mainly for its earthquakes, typhoons, semiconductors and troubled relationships with its much larger … Continue reading The Taiwan Episcopal Church Celebrates 70 Years!
St. Peter’s Church, Chiayi has much to celebrate this year ~ and in hosting the Taiwan Episcopal Church 2024 Diocesan Convention, we all gathered to celebrate their 60th anniversary and to mark their new status as a parish, with their … Continue reading Taiwan Episcopal Church Diocesan Convention ’24 台灣聖公會第64屆教區年議會😎
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!
On September 2, 2019, I received a very special message, and it made my day! The message said, “Hello Catherine! I am going to get married on December 14, 2019! Our wedding will be held in St. Peter’s Church (Chiayi). … Continue reading Congratulations to Isaac Chen Wei-Chieh 陳瑋杰 and his beautiful bride 羅雅馨!
#AdventWord #focus ‘Imagine the lenses in your glasses get accidentally switched – everything is out of FOCUS; blurry. Today, be still and take time to FOCUS. You will see what you have never seen’. Visit to the Taiwan Episcopal Church 台灣聖公會 of Bishop John A. Pinckney from Taiwan’s Companion Diocese, the Episcopal Diocese of Upper S. Carolina (EDUSC), October 1965. St. Peter’s Church, Chiayi 台灣聖公會嘉義聖彼得堂, through Ms. An-Veng Loh’s ministry, developed an amazing Christian Education program. Continue reading Advent Word 2017, Day 7 ‘focus’
Yes, honest, I love CMS! And all those associated with CMS ~ the mission partners, CMS staff, UK Link Churches and of course all those who welcome us to serve in their dioceses, churches, organizations and communities! CMS stands for Church Mission Society ~ I joined in September 1989, served in Tanzania for 7 years, and then in January 1999 arrived in Taiwan and I’ve been here ever since, first at St. James’ Church, Taichung for 7 years, and since early 2007 based here at St. John’s University, on Taiwan’s NW coast. My last formal CMS-UK visitors came in November … Continue reading I love CMS! A Great Big Welcome to Taiwan for Raj Patel, CMS Regional Manager for Asia ~ all the way from Oxford ~ YES!
A very special day yesterday at the beautiful St. Peter’s Church for the wedding of a very lovely couple, Michael and Hany Lee! The newly-restored church looked stunning, and of course it was a real church family event ~ St. Peter’s excels at being a really close church family! Michael’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee are devoted members of St. Peter’s, his father is on the church committee, and his mother is chair of St. Peter’s ECW (Episcopal Church Women). So together with Rev. Simon Tsou and all their friends in the church, they planned and organized all the wedding themselves, … Continue reading Congratulations to Michael, Hany, the Lee family and all at St. Peter’s Church, Chiayi!
Catherine Lee 