台灣基督長老教會三地門教會

Invisible lane

Cultural gospel-bound church

The aboriginal faith center has a unique and attractive appearance.

The environment, scene, layout, sound, orchestra, etc. each have their own characteristics, and it is worth observing and learning from the first-class church.

``70'', for a person is almost all the years of his life, because the Bible tells us: ``The age of our life is only seventy, and the strongest possibility is eighty...'' (Psalm 90:10). For a church, ``70'' even represents God's infinite grace and blessing, because ``70'' is an extended multiple of ``7'', and the Sandimen church was established in the multiplied grace of God. Therefore, the author is very Bravely said: "This is a path of grace," and the author is fortunate to share in detail the wonderful footprints of this path to salvation grace. Looking back on today 70 years ago (1945), the Holy Spirit started work on Mr. Gui Shunyi, the former mayor of Sandimen Township. Accompanied by Elder Wu Kepeng of the Pingtung Central Committee, he visited Pastor Xu Youcai of Pingtung Church and asked: "What god should we worship in the future?" Such a question opened up the gospel appeal of the Sandimen Church and opened the door for missions in the Paiwan Central Church. That year, Pastor Xu Youcai recruited a group of young people from the Pingtung Church and brought a few bags of salt into the tribe to visit. On October 10, 1946, Pastor Su'e and Mr. Lin Qingdong were invited to join the tribe. Pastor Huang Su'e and Lin Qingdong were absent during the day to teach at night and preach the gospel at night. ,Sandimen Church Gospel’s Seed Oil Shengsheng# lasted for nearly a year, so on September 20, 1947, Sister Bao Yinzhu’s residence hall was rented and formally worshipped. This became the origin of the Sandimen Church. There are 30 people (including adults and children). During this period, many difficulties, challenges, doubts and misunderstandings were experienced, but they could not shake the unshakable faith of the believers at that time, so that the gospel was gradually spread and grown. So far, 70 years of grace have been peacefully experienced. In addition to God's leadership and protection, it is also because the senior shepherds, elders, and brothers and sisters dedicated themselves to sowing seeds with tears, and today's cheering harvest can be achieved. In this process, there have been five expansions of the church, from thatched church to today’s gospel and cultural chapel; there are also 5 households with 30 believers in the beginning, and 218 households with 360 believers (the average number of worshippers in the morning includes the Lord Daily School), the total number of believers is nearly a thousand (including catechumens), all of which are grown in the infinite grace of God, and this kind of grace growth is not only the fiery heart of the predecessors, but also because of the words of God. Only the persistence and perseverance of God, if there is no faith based on God’s Word, there would be no three churches today. In fact, the establishment of the church was originally based on the word of God. This is also the reason and goal of the theme of "rooting, inheritance and transformation" set by the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the church. The church was originally scheduled to publish the ``60th Anniversary Special Issue'' in 2005, but due to the imperfect equipment of some ministries, the ``death in the womb'' could not be published smoothly. The information, started in 2016, "Sandimen Church 70th Anniversary Commemorative Special Issue", after a year of division of labor and cooperation, finally completed the publication in early October this year. This special issue is divided into the following five outlines: First of all, in the ``preface'' part of the ``preface'' part of the special invitation of the President of the General Assembly, Pastor Chen Mingzhi and the President of the Central Committee, Zhu Wu. The prologue of the special issue of Pastor Fa Zhishan and Pastor Chen Mingguang of this association, guides everyone into the ``wonderful'' life medicine of the Sandimen Church. It details the historical story of the "rooting, inheritance, and transformation" of the Sandimen Church; details how to pass the gospel, beliefs, and generations to generations, and then take on a new look and become a new creation. In addition, share our ``Perfect Missions Ministry in Transformation'' and our ``Records of the 70th Anniversary Series of Teaching Activities'' with our ``Fellowship Ministry and Sunday School Ministry'', and finally, invite our club The nurtured pastors share the three churches in their hearts. We believe that the history of any church is ruled by God. In this historical evolution, all the stories of people, things, and things that happened in the Sandimen Church will become our memories. The pastors, elders, brothers and sisters in the history of Dimen Church are all actors who recreated the miracle of the Three Dimen Churches, and our Father God is the director of this church. Since he is an actor, he must do his best to live out his own play. His important role (duty), I believe that this play will continue to be played in God’s eternal history, as Paul said: “This does not mean that I have succeeded or been completed. I continue to run just to win the reward... ; I only concentrate on one thing: forget the back and pursue the front with all my strength.” (Philippians 3:12-13) The 70th Anniversary Thanksgiving Service of the Sandimen Church of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan is taken from Pastor Mingguang Chen Pastor Chen Mingguang at the end of the Lord 2017.10.28