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Presbytery Greetings to
Garden Grove Formosan 40th Anniversary
April 21, 2018
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We are composed of ten thousand Pres-
hat a wonderful afternoon byterian members and two hundred Pres-
W join you in celebrating byterian pastors. All of us worship and
to
your 40th year together as a congrega- serve Christ through forty-five chartered
tion! Congratulations to all of you— congregations and twelve new church
both to those of you who started the developments and mission programs.
church and are still here after 40 years,
and to those of you who have brought You may have figured out that I like
fresh life into the congregation in each numbers! But there is one more number I
of its decades since then. would like to share with you about the
Presbytery of Los Ranchos this after-
Some of you already know what I am noon. That number is eight.
about to say. Elder Hu, for instance, in
addition to his service to Formosan Every weekend, Christians in our Pres-
Presbyterian Church, is an active and bytery worship God in eight different
faithful friend of the Presbytery of Los languages:
Ranchos. What I say will not be a sur- 1. Swahili,
prise to him. But for those of you who 2. And also Korean,
find “Presbytery” a strange word, this is 3. And Spanish—no surprise in
for you.
Southern California.
The Presbytery of Los Ranchos is the 4. But also: Indonesian,
regional body of the Presbyterian 5. And Vietnamese,
Church (USA) in Orange County, Long
Beach, and southern Los Angeles coun- 6. And Arabic,
ty. We reach from San Clemente in the 7. And English, of course,
south to Boyle Heights in the north and 8.…and Taiwanese.
from the Pacific Ocean in the west to
the Santa Ana Mountains in the east.
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