World Mission Challenge 2009

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The following is a brief bio of the visiting missionaries:
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.

[media:20090615163718340 width:0 height:0 border:1 align:auto link:1 alt:0]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.”

Prior to their appointment in 1991, Choon served as an associate pastor of the Hanmee Presbyterian Church in Itasca, Illinois. He earned his undergraduate degrees from Indiana University in Indianapolis and then worked for Indiana University Hospital as a supervisor of the respiratory therapy department. He earned his master’s of divinity from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a minister member of Chicago Presbytery. Yen Hee is a graduate of Seoul Nursing College. She has worked in four hospitals in the United States as well as in Ewha University Hospital in Seoul. She is a member of Hanmee Presbyterian Church in Itasca.