Tavadran Presbyterian Church 台灣基督長老教會達瓦蘭教會 - Majia Township

One of the three major churches here

Enjoy Aboriginal meals

People are kind and simple, and Pastor Li treats people with kindness.

a building with a distinctive appearance

The architectural design is very beautiful and worth visiting. Creative ideas from local artists

Very special church; with stone slabs as the design appeal, aboriginal style, a good place for Taishe tribes, you can also stay! Pastor, fellow workers, very kind

History of Tribal Missions in Davalan Church 1. History of the Davalan Church In February 1952, Brother Lu Wang, a member of the Sandimen Presbyterian Church (now the land donor of the Yuquan Church), began to enter the tribe. The gospel, the preacher of the German Presbyterian Church Zheng Xinghui (a pastor born in the Sandimen Church) also joined Brother Lu Wang’s mission in August Join the ranks to promote the sacred mission of "evangelism". Lu Wang and Zheng Xinghui often went into the village to preach the gospel. By 1955, A small number of villagers in the Davalan tribe have already believed in the Lord. At that time, the Kaohsiung Central Committee’s Mountain Ministry formally stationed the Kopinghai Missionary as a full-time pastoralist, and started Start the party. On January 15, 1956, the believers selected the church site that was listed as a taboo site as the site for the construction of the church. The efforts of the believers were completed on October 29 of the same year and the dedication ceremony of the thatched church was held. In 1965, the number of believers increased and the chapel had to be expanded. In that year, the members and the conference decided to build a reinforced concrete chapel and pastor's hall. In an environment with inconvenient transportation, young believers led by elders use walking way to the water gate to buy steel bars, bricks, and cement materials. All believers will carry the materials to Taishe Village by backing. After three years of construction, this book was held on June 8, 1968 The second dedication ceremony will be held. In 2000, when the church chapel was old and unusable, the members and the meeting decided to build a four-story steel frame The church was forced to suspend work due to the August 8 floods. 2. A brief history of the Davalan Church of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan after the August 8 Flood In 2010, the August 8 Flood Reconstruction Committee allocated an area of ​​200 square meters at No. 13, Lane 25, Heping Road as the fourth building of the church. This church is composed of our believers Sakuliu. Brother Bavavalon was responsible for designing the blueprint, all the believers participated in the construction, and produced The unique artistic creations of the indigenous people are displayed inside and outside the church. Contributed by World Vision, fundraising by the General Conference and various churches, and the construction schedule It was completed in four years, and the third dedication ceremony was held on December 6, 2014. The new chapel facilities include: an auditorium that can accommodate 300 people. The reading room has one Sunday school classroom, one accompanying classroom, and Two affair offices, meeting rooms, pastor's hall, church kitchen, public toilets, cultural plaza, archery range (multifunctional use), stone plates House rooms, vegetable gardens, etc. Among them, the church’s multifunctional archery range consists of five households (Xu Zengchangde, Yang Shiping, Chen Dongmei, Xu Zhusheng, Chen Gui Son) Church members voluntarily give up their farming rights and donate them to the church for archery field, vegetable garden and multi-purpose use. (The text is taken from the Paiwan Central Committee 55 Yearbook)