Meet Andy Chi, the new President of the Taiwan Alliance Church Union

Rev. Andy Chi is the new President of the Taiwan Alliance Church Union.
He grew up in a Christian setting, but it wasn’t until later that he and his wife,
Mary, decided to dedicate themselves entirely to God’s work.
He wants to share a little bit of his story, his journey with our Lord
and how he became President.

Rev. Andy Chi was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and grew up in Taipei. From a Christian family, Andy attended a Baptist church, where he was baptized as a youth. After graduating from high school, he spent one year working on a ship and traveling to many places around the world. After returning to Taiwan and completing his mandatory military service, in 1985 he married Mary, who had grown up attending the same church. During the years when their two sons were born and they became busy with work, Andy and Mary quit attending church or giving any priority to their faith.

While working with the family business in their Hong Kong branch, during a brief time of lonely separation from his wife and sons because of a business trip, God brought Andy to a place of repentance and returning by reminding him, “You are miserable because you have been separated from those you love for one week, but you have been distant from me for ten years.” From that moment, Andy was filled with a passion to live fully for Christ, and soon after, responded to God’s call to fulltime ministry.

Andy and Mary returned to Taiwan, after three years in Hong Kong. Following one year on staff at their home church, they both began studies at the Taiwan Alliance Theological College. Upon graduation, they returned to serve in their home church briefly, and then were called to pastor the Taiwan C&MA Deep Grace Church in the ShenKeng District of New Taipei City. They have served the church for 17 years.

Andy and Mary have two married sons and two grandsons.

On January 1, 2018, Rev. Andy Chi assumed the position of President of the Taiwan Alliance Church Union. Andy has a great love for the family of the C&MA. His desire is to see Taiwan’s C&MA churches work together, with larger, healthier churches coming alongside struggling churches and new church plants.

At a recent gathering of Taiwan pastors, Rev. Chi reminded those gathered, “In Taiwan, the C&MA may be a small denomination, but that does not mean we cannot accomplish much as we work together.”