Burnaby Taiwanese Presbyterian Church
Worshipping in the Greater Vancouver Area
Burnaby Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, Burnaby, British Columbia
Telling the Story
The vision for Burnaby Taiwanese Presbyterian Church started in February of 2004, when Rev. Chin-Chai (Peter) Wang and the elders of Vancouver Taiwanese Presbyterian
Church proposed to the congregation to start another church service to reach the growing Taiwanese community in the Burnaby area as a fitting way to celebrate their upcoming 20th anniversary.
On Sunday, September 17, 2006 BTPC’s first service was held in Brentwood Presbyterian Church in Burnaby, BC. By the end of 2007 average Sunday worship attendance had reached 85 people and church membership had grown from the original 25 to 60 people. On Sunday, January 6, 2008, BTPC was officially constituted by the Westminster Presbytery, which had assigned the Rev. Bruce Cairnie as our Interim Moderator.
Presently, BTPC is led by the session of five elders and eleven deacons who assist the elders. BTPC is the only Taiwanese Church in Burnaby and the north-east Greater
Vancouver area. Sermons are in Taiwanese and a hot, home-made Taiwanese lunch is served after the service. We intentionally reach out to other Taiwanese through various programs: church choir, pastoral visitations, Sunday school, Bible studies, and fellowships of different age groups. In the years to come, our desire is to reach out
with the Gospels of Christ to even more Taiwanese in Burnaby and the north-east Greater Vancouver area.
In the years to come, our desire is to reach out with the Gospels of Christ to even more Taiwanese in Burnaby and the north-east Greater Vancouver area.
A pastoral search committee has been established to find a new minister. We are grateful for Rev. Cairnie's tremendous assistance to us in our pastoral search committee and various church meetings. Because we currently share the church building with Brentwood Presbyterian Church (BPC) and a Montessori kindergarten, most of our daytime gatherings: Bible study, reading club and fellowship must be held elsewhere - in family homes and in a rented space at Como Lake United Church in Coquitlam. The
shortage of activity space on weekdays the search for a minister, and the deterioration of the human rights, justice, and democracy in our homeland of Taiwan are the three main concerns facing us at present. We covet your prayers as we face these three challenges in the coming years.
—The Reverend Morgan Wong, Interim Moderator