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Aborigines were the first people to live in Taiwan. Some Chinese people started coming to Taiwan in the 500's. Still the big settlement didn't start until the 1600's. Dutch traders filled the ports of Taiwan from 1624 to 1661. A Chinese Ming dynasty official named Koxinga ran them out. Koxinga wanted to use Taiwan as a attack base against Manchus. Taiwan is the seat of the Nationalist Chinese government and since 1949 has claimed to have jurisdiction over the People's Republic of China on the mainland. Of course, the People's Republic claims that Taiwan should be under their rule, but both agree that Taiwan is part of China. Taiwan's population is around 21 million. Almost all the people living in Taiwan are Chinese. They moved to Taiwan mostly during the 1800's. Two million more arrived when communists took over the mainland in 1949. Three-fourths of people in Taiwan live in cities and towns. In Taiwan, they speak Mandarin Chinese.
Since 1980, Bill Wilson and Metro Ministries have pioneered the human wasteland of forgotten inner-cities. Their mission is to find and rescue the children left behind in this battleground of drugs, violence and abuse. This was a struggle that could only be won with the power of God. With enormous faith and persistence, Bill began Sunday Schools and the Won-By-One Children's Sponsorship Program, a unique way to partner Christians with an inner city child.  |
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