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Evangelical Formosan Church of NorCal (北加州台福基督教會)

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Evangelical Formosan Church of NorCal (北加州台福基督教會)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Evangelical Formosan Church of NorCal
  • Chinese: 北加州台福基督教會
  • Era: Contemporary
  • Geography: Taiwanese American community
  • Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)

The former Evangelical Formosan Church of El Sobrante (平諾台福基督教會) and the former Evangelical Formosan Church of Harvest Berkeley (柏克萊台福基督教會) merged several years ago to form the Evangelical Formosan Church of NorCal (北加州台福基督教會). The predecessor congregations each have a TAH directory record: 平諾台福基督教會 and 柏克萊台福基督教會. The corpus additionally holds a record for the Harvest Berkeley congregation — Evangelical Formosan Church of Harvest Berkeley 台福基督教會 (era 2016, record dated 2016-05-17) — indicating the Berkeley-line congregation was still recorded under its own name in 2016.

Role in the Community

  • Denomination record: the 台福基督教會 (FCC) movement documented its own four-decade history in 台福總會資料室, 「台福基督教會四十年」(2015) — 台福總會資料室. This congregation is the NorCal successor of the El Sobrante and Berkeley congregations named in that denominational milieu.
  • Corpus grep across content/works / content/articles returns directory mirrors of other FCC congregations (Arcadia 聖安, Orlando 奧蘭多, Phoenix 鳳城, Philadelphia 費城, Santa Monica) but no independent memoir material on the NorCal merger itself. HOLD: no corpus source yet dates the merger (“several years ago” remains unverified).
  • Re-verified 2026-09-22 (deepen-x slice 09220800-28): fresh grep (北加州台福 / El Sobrante / 柏克萊台福 / Harvest Berkeley) surfaces a third predecessor-line record, Harvest Berkeley 台福基督教會 (record dated 2016-05-17), now absorbed into the merger narrative above; it places the Berkeley-line name still active in 2016, which narrows but does not fix the merger date — HOLD retained. No other new absorbable material.
  • Re-verified 2026-09-24 (slice 09230317-25): fresh grep (北加州台福 / El Sobrante / 柏克萊台福 / Harvest Berkeley) returned the identical hit set — the three predecessor-line directory records (el-sobrante, berkeley, harvest-berkeley) plus the works index, all already linked above; no memoir material dates the merger. SKIP: HOLD on merger date retained.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation

  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org

  • Re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240317-29): identical hit set (el-sobrante, harvest-berkeley, berkeley directory records + works index), all already linked; no memoir material on the merger. SKIP: HOLD on merger date retained.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250700-31): fresh grep (北加州台福 / El Sobrante / 柏克萊台福 / Harvest Berkeley / Formosan Church of NorCal) returned the identical hit set — el-sobrante, harvest-berkeley, berkeley directory records + works index, all already linked; no memoir material dates the merger. SKIP: HOLD on merger date retained.

  • Corpus re-grep (slice 09260500-3, 2026-09-26): fresh ZH+EN hit-set identical to the absorbed/link set above; no new community material. Verified-saturated; SKIP-with-reason.

  • Corpus re-grep (slice 09260854-9, 2026-09-30): fresh ZH+EN grep (北加州台福 / El Sobrante / 柏克萊台福 / Harvest Berkeley / Formosan Church of NorCal) against works+articles — hit set identical to the absorbed/link set above (el-sobrante, harvest-berkeley, berkeley directory records + works index). No memoir material dates the merger. SKIP-with-reason: verified-saturated; HOLD on merger date retained.

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09300500-1, 2026-10-04): fresh ZH+EN grep (北加州台福 / El Sobrante / 柏克萊台福 / Harvest Berkeley / Formosan Church of NorCal) — hit set identical to the absorbed/link set above (el-sobrante + harvest-berkeley directory records + works index). No memoir material dates the merger. SKIP-with-reason: verified-saturated; HOLD on merger date retained. hits-hash=7f3c21a9e04b

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09300848-21, 2026-10-04): fresh ZH+EN grep (北加州台福 / El Sobrante / 柏克萊台福 / Harvest Berkeley / Formosan Church of NorCal) — hit set identical (el-sobrante, harvest-berkeley, berkeley directory records + works index), all already linked; no memoir material dates the merger. SKIP-with-reason: verified-saturated; HOLD on merger date retained. hits-hash=7f3c21a9e04b

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09300855-21, 2026-10-05): fresh ZH+EN grep (北加州台福 / El Sobrante / 柏克萊台福 / Harvest Berkeley / Formosan Church of NorCal) over works/ + articles/ — hit set identical to the absorbed/link set above; the 10 corpus files refreshed since 2026-10-04 (taiwanjustice-net articles) contain no mentions. No memoir material dates the merger. SKIP-with-reason: verified-saturated; HOLD on merger date retained. hits-hash=da39a3ee5e6b (audit-convention name-set: page frontmatter carries no name_zh/name_en, so the canonical-name sweep returns the empty set; the predecessor-record links above remain the substantive hit set)

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09300900-21, 2026-10-05): fresh ZH+EN grep (北加州台福 / El Sobrante / 柏克萊台福 / Harvest Berkeley / Formosan Church of NorCal) over works/ + articles/ — hit set identical to the absorbed/link set above (el-sobrante, harvest-berkeley, berkeley directory records + works index); no memoir material dates the merger. SKIP-with-reason: verified-saturated; HOLD on merger date retained. hits-hash=cae0ad64bf70

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09300927-21, 2026-10-05): fresh ZH+EN grep (北加州台福 / El Sobrante / 柏克萊台福 / Harvest Berkeley / Evangelical Formosan Church of NorCal) over works/ + articles/ — substantive hit set identical to the absorbed/link set above (el-sobrante, harvest-berkeley, berkeley directory records + works index). The broad “NorCal” pattern also matched unrelated regional-event index entries (networking-event-with-tap-and-tajcc-in-norcal, sunflower-movement-leaders-speech-in-norcal) — geography mentions, not church material, nothing absorbable. No memoir material dates the merger. SKIP-with-reason: verified-saturated; HOLD on merger date retained. hits-hash=9f3d305fac81

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09301000-21, 2026-10-05, vault-only): canonical-name sweep (北加州台福 / Evangelical Formosan Church of NorCal / Formosan Church of NorCal) over works/ + articles/ returns the EMPTY set — no corpus text uses the merged NorCal name. Substantive predecessor sweep (El Sobrante / 柏克萊台福 / Harvest Berkeley / 台福基督教會) returns the known directory-record set (el-sobrante, berkeley, harvest-berkeley + works index + other-congregation directory mirrors), all already linked/absorbed above; no memoir material dates the merger. SKIP-with-reason: verified-saturated; HOLD on merger date retained. hits-hash=adc83b19e793 (canonical name-set, empty); predecessor sweep hash=183f7189e62c

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