Good news, a new beginning! Guangfu Dental Clinic 光復牙醫診所 at No. 8, Dunhou Road, Guangfu, Hualien is open! The mud’s gone, everywhere’s freshly painted, there’s new furniture, dental chairs, an X-ray machine, computer equipment, and a very happy Dr. Kuo … Continue reading 花蓮光復洪災後重生！After the Mud: New Beginnings at Guangfu, Hualien, Taiwan ❤️
The train from Hualien, packed to the limits, pulls into Guangfu Station. It’s Sunday, September 28, and Taiwan has a 3-day holiday weekend for Teacher’s Day, Confucius’ Birthday. It’s the smell that gets us first. Then the dust. It’s everywhere, … Continue reading 花蓮光復洪災 Guangfu, Hualien, Taiwan: Inundated with Mud, Overflowing with Compassion ❤️
Another week, another typhoon, such was October 2024. Taiwan started the month with Typhoon Krathon – which caused major damage in Taiwan’s extreme north and south but left the rest of the country relatively unscathed – and we’ve now finished … Continue reading Typhoon Kong-Rey 🌀 October 31, 2024
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!
July 2024 was quite an eventful month for us in Taiwan ~ and was marked at the end of the month by the arrival of Typhoon Gaemi🌀 ~ from which Taiwan is still recovering. The worst typhoon to hit Taiwan … Continue reading Welcoming Katherine & the Lovely Cooper Family from the UK to Taiwan! 🌍❤️🌏
“We haven’t come to show off, but to share our talents with you and to bring glory to God!” So said Gloria at their first concert, and that theme continued throughout the week, as they shared with us their amazing … Continue reading Taiwan Concert Tour 2023🎺🎹🎼: Welcoming Bill & Cynthia Lawing & Gloria Cook!
And what a great day it was! Rev. Chen Ming-You 陳銘佑 was ordained priest by the Rt. Rev. Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang, Bishop of Taiwan, at St. John’s Cathedral, Taipei on Friday August 6, 2021, the day the church celebrates the … Continue reading 陳銘佑會吏按立會長聖職典禮 Congratulations to Rev. Chen Ming-You 陳銘佑 on his Ordination as Priest!
Yes, huge congratulations to Taiwan on their biggest haul ever: 12 Olympic medals! To be selected for the Olympics is a huge achievement, and to get a medal, any medal, is an extra ~ and all deserve praise and encouragement. … Continue reading Congratulations on 10 (now 12!) Olympic Medals🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉Update from Taiwan 😷
Ah, Wulai. Think hot springs, cherry blossom and Atayal indigenous culture. And mountain scenery. And views… And, sadly, in the last few years, think typhoons too. Wulai has had more than its fair share of bad news. Most recently, “in August 2015, Wulai was devastated by Typhoon Soudelor, wiping out several hotels and destroying hot springs in the region. The course of the Nanshi River that passes through the district changed and the riverbank was eroded heavily by surging water. Heavy landslides were attributed to the overdevelopment of the mountain areas around the river which damaged the soil and watershed … Continue reading Escaping Taipei’s Heat up in Wulai 烏來!
Catherine Lee 