Taiwan Church News 3317 Edition September 21 - 27, 2015 Headline News Over 6000 PCT Members Participated In Taiwan Coast CleanupReported by Tseng Wang-yu, Simon Lin and Lin Yi-ying To celebrate PCT 150, PCT Church and Society Committee and her counterpart in each presbytery or district held an event of "Taiwan Coast Cleanup" in the afternoon on 20 September. Over 6,000 PCT members had simultaneously participated into this significant environmental event, across the island's 18 counties and cities, at 40 sites of coasts, river banks, ecological parks and wetlands. In advance of this event, PCT Church and Society Committee had already set up a facebook website, "PCT Volunteer Group for Taiwan Coast Cleanup" to proceed some basic education trainings. And it's very good that this event had a very nice ending. Over 1,300 people attended the An-ping coast site at Tainan, and this was the most populous site of this PCT event. At the site of Taipei, the event of coast cleanup was held at Shallow Water Bay in Sanzhi county. Rev. Lyim Hung-tiong, PCT General Secretary, Rev. Lin Wei-lian, Secretary of PCT Church and Society Committee, and about 400 PCT members were invited to cleanup about 170 kgs of waste. At Taichung, PCT's Taichung presbytery worked together with "Green River Workshop" and "Taiwan Sunflower Girls' Baseball Team" to cleanup the wastes stuck in the green river. It was estimated about 200 people attending this activity. 20 students and pastors of PCT's Taichung College Center even dressed up in a so-called "frog suit" working hard to collect the wastes from Taichung's green river. PCT Coast cleanup actions went to many locations around Taiwan island, including Kaohsiung Chi-zin Beach, Ywa-lien Seven Stars Lake, Taitung Sugihara Beach, Hsin-chu Shian-san Wetland, Changhwa Fu-bao Wetland, Yi-lang Lizhejiang Beach and etc., people can see these pictures of activities on the facebook webiste of PCT. In additions of these activities, Pinuyumayan district also composed the song for coast cleanup, East Amis presbytery held assembly and a memorial missionary guide of Dr. James Laidlaw Maxwell was also held to honor this special environmental event. Translated by Peter Wolfe |