MISSION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

TO BE A NEW CREATION: MISSION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION,


A REFORMED MINISTRY FOR TAIWANESE RURAL MISSION

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A Project Report

Presented to

The Faculty of

Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Louisville, Kentucky

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In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements for the Degree

Doctor of Ministry

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by

Hau-Sheng Chng

May 2006

The Doctor of Ministry project of Hau-Sheng Chng is approved.

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Dr. Dianne Reistroffer (Date Signed)

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Dr. David Sawyer (Date Signed)

Dedication

Isaiah 3:19

Behold I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

In many ways this study and project are like my confession and spiritual pilgrimage. In 1988 Hsin-Hui, my wife and colleague, and I were appointed together to serve Tek-Tung Presbyterian Church by the committee of Presbyterian Church in Taiwan. Tek-Tung was a very small, poor, and broken rural church in 1988. Now it is totally different. Though it is still a small church with only one hundred members, now it is an active church with many exciting ministries.

First, I would like to dedicate this project to my Heavenly Father and pray for God’s Kingdom to come to Taiwan. God let me know that God never gives up on us in our weakness or gives up on our little churches. As a servant of God I am grateful for all things God has done in my life, the congregation and the community. God let me see how little things can make big differences.

I want to dedicate this project to my parents, Kong-Lee Chuang and Ai-Shi Liu, who nurtured my life and spirituality. Their love and full support made me commit myself into ministry.

I also want dedicate this project to my wife Hsin-Hui. She is my faithful colleague. I could not have finished my study and realized all these projects at the same time without her full support. Actually, she is the key person who carried out most of these projects. Her love enabled her commit to serve Tek-Tung Church alone while I studied at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary from 1997 to 1999.