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At a low temperature of 10 degrees Celsius, many pastors and PCT members gathered in a  thanksgiving service held for Fong-Ming Church, located at Ching-Cheng Hoya Community, Fong-Ming Redevelpment District, Yingge District, New Taipei City, in the afternoon on December 28, 2024. This is the 98th church established within the PCT Taipei presbytery and the third church planted by its mother church: Hsin-Chuang Church of Taipei presbytery.

In order to protest against a blatant news headline released by the World Council of Churches (WCC), which listed Taiwan with Hong Kong, Macau under the mainland China via social media Facebook on December 16, and reiterate the PCT’s membership in WCC should not be treated under such an oppressive one-China framework, Rev Fuyan Suda, moderator of the 69th PCT General Assembly, and Rev Chen Hsin-liang, general secretary of the PCT, immediately send an official letter of protest to Rev Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, moderator of WCC, and Rev Jerry Pillay, general secretary of WCC. The PCT officially requested WCC to correct this unfortunate and unnecessary error immediately.

A charity fair, 2024 Taipei Christmas Infinite Love, jointly organized by the Department of Information and Tourism of Taipei City Government and some Christian churches was launched in Daan Forest Park at Taipei City on December 14.

With many slogans scribbled as “No Crime for Reviving the Indigenous Mother Tongues”, “Stop Smearing the Church” and etc, a press conference was held by the PCT, citizen groups and indigenous communities at Legislative Yuan on Dec 5th. 2024.

To thank God for his blessing and guidance for decades, a thanksgiving service to dedicate a pipe organ at Fong-Shan presbyterian church of Sho-Shan presbytery was held on December 1. The first phase of the pipe organ installment was completed in 2001, and the second phase of installment was completed in October in 2024, with a total of 2006 pipes and 28 stops.