Fruits on the Vine

 

The evangelists have bravely followed Jesus after they heard the call from the Lord.  Their formation as evangelists includes three years at Fu Jen Thologate with internships at existing Evangelism Centers.  Then they are ready to build Christian communities.  Here are some:

1. Taipei Evangelism Center

•  Evangelist Jr-Syung Hsu serves at Banchio St. John Parish, Sulin Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, and Linkou St. Joseph Parish leading catechumen classes, which first requires a lot of ground work in the parishes.  He also supervises the internships for students in the Formation Center, as well as promoting the new evangelizing "cell communities" program at Sulin Parish.

•  Evangelist Jr-Li Ying serves at Hsintien Our Lady of Chinese Parish, Young Adult Friendship Center, Linkou Parish, and Lotung Holy Mary Hospital.  Besides leading catechumen classes, she also leads the Catechumen Class Internship Program for students in the Formation Center.  The catechumen classes in Our Lady of Chinese Parish started in 2008 and eleven classes has been offered since.  At the Young Adult Friendship Center, four catechumen classes have been offered in the past 2 years.  One Evangelism Prayer Group started lately upon the request of the newly baptized from those catechumen classes, and the newly baptized young adults are bringing their non-Catholic friends to the Prayer Group.

2. Taichung Evangelism Center

•  Evangelist Hweiming Huang completed her successful mission at Taipei Luchou Parish and Taichung Nantun St. John Vianney Parish.  She continues her ministry at Queen of Peace parish in her hometown Lukang and also started the new mission at Taichung Immaculate Conception Parish and a Convalescing Home in May.

3. KaoHseung and Pingtung Evangelism Centers

•  Five evangelists: Yumei Huang, Haiyin Wang, Huiping Gu, Huahua Chen, and Lianhaw Chou are working at the two centers.  Yumei, Huahua and Haiyin were sponsored by the Diocese of Kaohsiung when they studied in the Formation Center.  After their graduation, the Diocese assigned them to our Kaohsiung and Pingtung Evangelism Centers and to minister together with our Evangelists Huiping and Lianhaw.  Because the Dioceses cover a large graphic area, the ministries of the five evangelists are spread graphically too.  Currently they are jointly serving thirteen parishes, hospitals and high schools in Kaohsiung area and five parishes in Pingtung area.

   

4.       Shinchu Evangelism Center

• Evangelist Sywen Lwo started after-school and Community Center programs at Kuan-si Parish, local residents responded to her creativity and enthusiasm.  Her ministry is currently expanded to four parishes (Kuan-si, Pinglin, Shiguang, and Hsinpu),  GuangHwa Development Center、Blue Sky Juvenile Reformatory; and she is leading/overseeing a total of eight catechumen classes (around 68 catechumens) and nine after-school and Community Center programs (around 80 people).  Because these after-school and Community Center programs are into the second year, she added 20 minutes of Catholicism Introduction at the beginning of each class; some of the participants joined the catechumen class.

•  Evangelist Zhepu Chang serves in the Chubei area.  After his work for one year resulted in 15 people being baptized at Chirstmas 2011 – four from Chubei Parish and eleven from Hsinpu Zonta Nursing Home.  He is leading six individual catechumen classes with nine catechumens and three group catechumen classes with 34 catechumens.  In addition, he also leads one Evangelism Prayer Group (three parishioners) which prepares parishioners to participate parish evangelism ministry.