About Us
Taiwan Christian International Holistic Care Missionary Association is a non-profit organization legally established as a social group. Based on the Bible, we follow the commandment and mission given by Jesus Christ, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. Go and make disciples of all nations." Through international charity and public welfare services, we aim to care for the physical, mental, and spiritual health of individuals, and promote social peace and kindness.
Registered with the Ministry of the Interior (Taiwan) with registration number 1061403486, and with the corporate registration certificate number 107-certified social group, register book number 91, page number 16, registration number 1822. Our tax ID is 72940994.
Origin
Myanmar is a place with political unrest, social chaos, economic depression, rampant drug abuse, displaced refugees, and traumatized orphans. In May 2008, Typhoon Nargis devastated the Ayeyarwady, with at least 138,000 people missing or killed. Bloated bodies floated in the river, and millions people faced devastation and starvation. The sad news touched Pastor Yang and Pastor Huang, so the couple participated in short-term missions to Myanmar for several years. While their burdens of missions to Myanmar got stronger as time went on, they decided to respond to God’s calling and devoted themselves to long-term missions in Myanmar.
The pastor couple has been visited a town in the Ayeyarwady River delta in January 2015. There were 400,000 people mainly composed of Bamar. 70% of the population lived below the poverty line. 30% of children were without any opportunity to go to school. Only 10% of children could finish grade 7 or beyond. As pastors visited the poor villages, they saw adults and kids sitting in front of doors of shabby huts and showing hopeless eyes. School children there only had two bowls of steamed rice and two small dried fish for lunch. Thus, they were thin and weak due to long-term malnutrition. As to their situation, the pastors felt distressed and reluctant to know. At that moment, it seemed like a whisper from the Lord coming to them. He said "Give them something to eat." (Matt. 14:16), and then also mentioned that "To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8)
As pastors thinking about God’s words and His will, the Mayor of Wakema asked them to help people there. Then they knew clearly that this was the Burmese call and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. So, they obeyed the Lord’s authority and predestination. To fulfill the entrustment from the Christ of reaching the Burmese people in Myanmar, they prepared to establish an organization with a cross-cultural mission. In 2017, we officially obtained the approval from Ministry of the Interior, ROC (Taiwan) to establish the Taiwan Christian International Holistic Care Missionary Association, referred to as IHCMA. We are following the truth in the Bible and responding to God's call of universal mission for striving to promote Burmese local and cross-cultural mission movements.