Vibrant churches and pastors

▲"Pastor Grandfather" Lin Xiongjian (right) of Zisunman (Church) receives the commendation of a model father from the Taoyuan County Government.

God once predicted through Pastor Joseph God that Taiwan’s Zhongli Truth Church would become a church “famous for serving children and teenagers.” At that time, there were only ten teenagers in the church. In 2008, Senior Pastor Lin Xiongjian and Mrs. Yang Ruojun responded to God’s call to enter Generation Y and pioneered the design of church hardware to meet the evangelistic needs of children and adolescents. In 2010, they started the after-school accompaniment class and enthusiastically launched children’s evangelism work. He also challenged well-equipped college students and young national elites to serve as group leaders and devote themselves to practicing pastoral care. Today, the church has about 1,500 members, with an average age of 16. They are full of energy and potential. (Please read the article "Bringing up the young and passing on love" in issue 33 of this magazine for details)

Pastor Lin Xiongjian and Mrs. Ruojun devoted all their efforts to pastoring and decided not to have physical descendants, but to treat the children of the church as their own and cherish them in every possible way. They built a "life companionship project" to help nearly 100,000 children grow in academics and character in the past ten years, allowing love to continue to spread. In August 2014, the Taoyuan County Government praised Pastor Lin Xiongjian as a model father. The media rushed to report on this childless man who has children and grandchildren in the church."Grandpa Pastor".