• Rev. Murray Garvin and Louise Gamble are retired missionaries of the PCC serving now as volunteer missionaries. Garvin teaches English at Yushan Theological College and Seminary, which trains most aboriginal ministers for the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan. Gamble teaches religious education for the pastoral care department of the Tam-Kang High School in Tamsui.
• Rev. Sidney Chang is a retired minister of the PCC working as a volunteer in the General Assembly office of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan in Taipei. Chang maintains the PCT’s website and translates material for the web from English to Chinese and vice versa.
• Rev. Dr. Michael Tai, a retired PCC minister working as an associate missionary, is dean of the College of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences and teaches medical ethics at Chung Shan Medical University in Taichung City.
TAIWAN INFO
Location: Eastern Asia
Size: 35,980 square km
Capital: Taipei
Climate: Tropical and marine, with persistent cloudiness year-round and rainy season from June to August.
Total Population: 23 million
Hakka Population: About 3 million.
The Hakka people are the descendants of Chinese Hakka people (a subset of the Han people) who fled the Chinese mainland.
Many are farmers in the mountain foothills, although they can be found throughout the social strata in any number of occupations.
Ethnic Groups: 84% Taiwanese (including Hakka), 14% Chinese, 2% indigenous
Life expectancy: 77.96 years
Birth rate: 8.99 births/1,000 population
Infant mortality rate: 5.35 deaths/1,000 live births
Religions: 93% Buddhist and Taoist, 4.5% Christian, 2.5% other.
Courtesy of the CIA World Factbook
