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Special Contributions of FPCOC to the G.A. and

Synod of Southern California and Hawaii

by Isaiah C. Lee 李宗派 and Josephine Y. Lu 沈雲冰

e are very grateful to the grace of God and the Office of Presbytery of Los Ranchos for their guid-

ance and financial support to enable our Taiwanese Christians to establish Formosan Presbyteri-
an Church in Orange county in 1978. In reviewing the history of church development and celebrating the

40th anniversary of church growth, we would like to express our deep gratitude to many church leaders in

the Offices of Presbytery and Synod, and to remember many church pioneers for their faithful services and
contributions including the deceased pastors of Rev. Paul Hsu,許錦銘 Formosan Presbyterian Church, Los

Angeles, Rev. Wu-Dong Huang,黃武東 our first organized pastor, Rev. Ping-Shek Ko,許斌碩 FPCLA, Rev.
Meng-Lin Wu,吳夢麟 Rev. Mao-Sheng Yeh 葉茂生 FPCOC. and many devoted elders, deacons, and mem-

bers in the past forty years. Our merciful God will remember their good deeds in heaven,. In return to the
help of Presbytery and Synod, there are three elders of FPCOC, Dr. Isaiah C. Lee, Ms. Josephine Y, Lu, and

Mr. Joe Lu, who have contributed their time and talents to serve in various committees and task forces in

the Offices of Synod and General Assembly for many years.

01. During the era of 1980s, Dr. Isaiah C. Lee was recommended by the Synod of Southern California

and Hawaii Presbyterian Church to participate in the National Committee on Self -Development of
People which is a unit of our General Assembly to manage a yearly budget of about six million dol-

lars for humanity and human services. The fund comes from one Sunday Offering of our total de-

nomination churches in the United States. One half of the fund, three million dollars, were spent for
domestic grant projects to help the needy groups and communities; for examples, the migrant farm

workers in Little Rock, Kentucky, Clean-Water Project of Indian Village (Big-Foot Country) of North
California. The other half of three million dollars were spent for international grant projects in the

third world; for example, the women development project in Taipei, which was headed by Kao Lee Li

-Jen,高李麗珍 wife of Rev. Kao June Ming.高俊明 Rev. Kao , the General Secretary of Taiwanese Pres-
byterian Church, was jailed because he was advocating Self-Determination of People for the future

of Taiwan. The Women Development Project was supported by Rev. Sang Zheng-Chong,商正宗 Tai-

pei Heping Presbyterian Church, 和平長老教會 and Rev. Chen Fu-Zhu,陳福住 and Lawyer Lee Sheng-
Xiong,李勝雄 and Ms. Chang Chhian-Fei 張千惠. It has helped many women for job-training and self-

support during their husbands were jailed for advocating social-justice and self-determination in

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