Introduction:
Hello, I am Eric. I have lived in Taiwan for the past several years and particularly came here to join God’s work amongst the Taiwanese. Mission Taiwan is not a mission organization or church; actually, I serve The US Navigators and partner and assist with the local church in Taiwan through The Taiwan Navigators… right now in Changhua. The first couple of years in Taiwan I taught English at a few different private English language schools. Currently, I am focusing my attention on Mandarin language acquisition in preparation for continuing ministry with Chinese speakers. All together language study will be a 2-5 year start and a life-time of refinement.
The Mission Taiwan website is a resource to help connect people around the world with things happening in Taiwan, especially what God is doing here in Central Taiwan. I hope to help link people to prayer and other needs in Taiwan. As well as share requests from others around the island. (Another website that actively shares island wide news is the TMF website or the others listed in the links panel.) Please contact me with any news or requests you might hope to share and I will try to keep updating weekly.
The Navigators:
Early Navigator History
Navigators Calling, Core Values, and Vision
Eric:
My parents shared with me the story of Jesus at a young age. They taught me about His miracles and life as God and man. They also shared with me about His death and His resurrection. At a young age, I held an elementary understanding of the truth of believing in Jesus as my personal savior, but I was also able to observe how they lived their lives according to their belief in God and Bible to gain a better understanding. It took me until I was in college to experience what it meant to follow Jesus fully in my life, to want Him to be Lord in my life. When I was younger, I had my parents to help me along with my beliefs, but as I have developed a life away from my parents, I better realized the meaning and need of having a relationship with Jesus. I needed to make choices about what I believed and lived for because it was going to affect my entire life. It has been a growing process ever since that will continue for the rest of my life.
I am very thankful to my parents’ commitment to Jesus Christ. As I follow Jesus now, it is not always easy and I have not always lived a perfect life as if a magic spell was placed on me. On the contrary, life is often more challenging in some ways (living against the grain of the world). A life with Christ is not what I can do on my own, just like my salvation was not what I did for myself but what Jesus did for me on the cross. Instead it is a life where I am meeting Him in a relationship. I still live a life that is filled with ups and downs, but with a heart that is focusing and depending on Jesus using the Bible as my road map to living life.
As I live, I hope I will love those around me in what ever I do, in such a way that encourages them to also live a life with Christ that glorifies God in His amazing holiness! Now as I live in Taiwan, I pray God will continue to reveal himself to the Taiwanese in an awesome way so many more people will come to personally know Him and also worship Him as the true God through a relationship with Jesus. I also desire to see God use my life to raise up new young men to be leaders for the faith in Taiwan. Men who will eventually become husbands and fathers; neighbors; co-workers, employees, and managers; teachers, businessman and politicians; writers and artists; and pastors and missionaries. Men who have an active daily growing relationship with God and are willing to live each day taking up the cross to follow him!
(Updated March 15, 2010)
