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2008-10-21 issue:

Taiwan group celebrates 60 years of medicine

by Mennonite Mission Network

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HUALIEN, Taiwan—Taiwan believers and former mission workers celebrated the 60th anniversary of Mennonite medical ministry in Taiwan on Sept. 19 at the Mennonite Christian Hospital in Hualien.

A 35-bed hospital built in Hualien in 1954 under the leadership of Dr. Roland Brown has evolved into a 500-bed regional teaching hospital with more than 900 employees. The Taiwan medical work by Mennonites began in 1948 when Mennonite Central Committee sent workers from Kaifeng, China, at the invitation of the Taiwan Presbyterian Church. Mobile clinics, eye clinics and distribution of relief goods were carried out around the island among the aboriginal groups, most of who lived in the mountainous areas. By 1956, MCC transferred the medical ministry to the Board of Missions of the General Conference Mennonite Church, a predecessor agency of Mennonite Mission Network and Mennonite Church Canada Witness.