| Choon and Yen Hee Lim
P.O. Box 11-40
Hualien, Taiwan 970
Email: Choon and Yen Hee Lim
Choon and Yen Hee Lim were appointed mission co-workers in 1991.
Their current assignment is with the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan’s
Aboriginal College Ministry, a work which Choon initiated for
the PCT in September 1999. Until then there were no outreach ministries
to students in the Hualien area. Now, Choon works in Hualien at
two universities and four colleges with the campus ministries
that he founded between 1999 and 2002.
Yen Hee a registered nurse, works at Bethesda in Hualien, a handicapped
children’s center and in a mobile clinic of the Mennonite
Christian Hospital, traveling with the medical staff to remote
mountain villages.
Prior to their assignment in Taiwan, the Lims served at the request
of the Presbyterian Church of Korea on the medical ship “Salvation.”
Choon was a director of the Island Medical Mission in Korea and
Yen Hee was a nurse in that medical ministry. When their term
with the “Salvation” ended in 1997 the Lims began
two years of language study (Mandarin) in preparation for their
work in Taiwan.
“It took a lot of love and forgiveness,” says Choon,
referring to the difficulties he encountered while founding six
campus ministries in a few short years while working out of his
home. Once several student groups had been formed, Choon brought
them together to work with each other in the Hualien Aboriginal
Campus Ministry (HACM). On July 1, 2003, HACM moved to a new mission
center. Among the many programs housed in the new mission center
is a Gospel Coffee House that many non-Christian students come
to for the free coffee, cakes, and good conversation.
After the HACM was established, Choon began to invest more time
working with the pastors of the Ami tribe. He organized a Bible
study in 2004 for which he used “See Through the Scriptures,”
which he translated into Mandarin. Choon has worked with all 13
aboriginal peoples, but he has focused especially on his work
with the Ami and Taroko tribes.
Only 3 percent of the population
in Taiwan is Christian. Choon sees the college students he ministers
to as the hope of Christianity on the island. “The Holy
Spirit wants to equip the Taiwanese people with the Word of God,”
Choon writes. “I believe that if the Holy Spirit touches
our hearts, all we have to do is to obey. I pray that the Spirit
continually moves the students and the college workers so that
the Kingdom of God may be established on Taiwan, as we Christians
obey Jesus Christ’s command.”
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