台灣教會公報新聞網

Facing the global challenges of climate change and sea-level rise, yet with a resolve to forge the resilience of homeland security, the Church and Society Committee of the Chiayi Presbytery held the 2026 Thanksgiving Service, entitled as ”Haomei Beach Trees-Planting and Preservation”, at Haomei Beach in Budai Township in the afternoon on May 24.

In recent years, Taiwan society has experienced kinds of natural disasters, like typhoons, earthquakes and other emergency events with devastating impacts. In order to improve the capability of emergency response within church communities, the Church and Society Committee of Kaohsiung Presbytery had established a five-year project long before. And this year the project enters into its fourth anniversary. In addition to carry on cooperating with Kaohsiung Red Cross to open training camp for "primary first-aid rescue”, another training camp for "advanced first-aid rescue" has also been added this year.

Considering the different responsibility between elders and deacons in church service, an "on-the-job training of counseling for church leaders" held by Mission Ministry Committee of Ngudradrekai (Rukai) Presbytery was divided into two sessions for Elders and Deacons respectively.

A total amount of 68 ambulances and first-aid automobiles jointly raised by Taiwan’s civil society successfully arrived in Ukraine on April 23. These vehicles were distributed to Ukrainian cities, like Lviv, Kharkiv and Kupyansk, for front-line rescue and medical supports.

The Argonomics Development Center of Tayal Presbytery held a "Tayal Bamboo-Fragrance-Coffee Roasting Workshop" in Fu-hsing District, Taoyuan City on April 25. Elder Lesa Ciru, director of Argronomics Development Center, said that this workshop aims to combine rich resources of bamboo forests in Tayal indigenous reserve with the emerging coffee industry. Through the setup of the creative “journey of tribal experience", the workshop encourages Tayal people to establish an agronomics industry with indigenous cultural characteristics in order to attract young people to come back and build up a vibrant Tayal hometown.