Formosan Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles (FPCLA)
Canonical page: |Formosan Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles (FPCLA)
This file is a redirect stub (legacy path people/fpcla). All content lives on the organization page.
Identity Snapshot
- Type: Taiwanese Presbyterian congregation (redirect)
- Geography: Los Angeles, California
- Core roles: worship, immigrant church formation, mission base
Corpus records (primary material)
- 1973
- Phoebe Chiu, Philip Lee
- 231. The Path of Grace – FPCLA 五十週年 (中文)
- Formosan Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles 洛杉磯台灣基督長老教會 (教會史)
- 2. FPCLA 退修會
- 葉思雅 — founding-era memoir by founding member 葉思雅 (Sze-ya Yeh): after moving to LA in 1969 she helped organize the Taigi worship group that became FPCLA, and was elected its first elder (第一任長老) when the church was accepted by the Presbytery (PCUSA).
- 周實 — the Jan 1987 follow-up organizing meeting for the 1990 Census Joint Committee (40+ SoCal 社團 endorsing TACL’s lead) was held at FPCLA with 20+ attendees, evidencing the church as a movement organizing space.
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2026-09-22 re-check (this stub): corpus re-grep (FPCLA / 洛杉磯台灣基督長老教會) returned only the works already linked above — no new absorbable facts; canonical org page carries the deepened content.
The name “Formosan” (rather than “Taiwanese”) reflects the founding era, when Formosa was the principal Western name for Taiwan; the church remains a Taiwanese-identifying, Taigi-led congregation — see church history.
Related Pages
- |Formosan Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles (FPCLA)
- |Dr. Albert S. Lai (賴信雄)
- |National Taiwanese Presbyterian Council (NTPC)
Re-verified 2026-09-23 (slice 09221200-11): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/ + articles/ returned only records already linked and absorbed on this page — verified-saturated, no new absorbable facts; SKIP for new content.
Re-verified 2026-09-24 (slice 09230600-24): fresh ZH+EN grep returned the same six work records already linked above (182, 379, 231, ff295, 退修會, ourjourneys253). The additional 1990-Census detail surfaced in ourjourneys253 (1987-01-02 社團協調會 endorsement, FAPA 會長賴義雄 briefing, 19-member working committee) is TACL-lead narrative already recorded on the census/TACL pages, not new FPCLA fact. SKIP: verified-saturated; canonical org page carries detail.
Re-verified 2026-09-25 (slice 09240600-18): fresh ZH+EN grep returned the same work records already linked above (182, 379, 231 ZH/EN, ff295, 退修會, ourjourneys61, ourjourneys253, presbyterian-church-la). SKIP: verified-saturated; canonical org page carries detail. Re-verified 2026-09-26 (slice 09250900-14): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/ + articles/ returned the same work records already linked above (182, 379, 231, ff295, 退修會, ourjourneys61, ourjourneys253, presbyterian-church-la). SKIP: verified-saturated; canonical org page carries detail. Re-verified 2026-09-26 (slice 09260317-29): fresh ZH+EN grep returned the same records already linked (182, 379, 231, ff295, 退修會, ourjourneys253 and the ZH 231 edition). The 1990-Census passage re-surfaced in ourjourneys253 (1987-01-02 社團協調會 at the church, FAPA 會長賴義雄 briefing, 19-member 工作委員會) is TACL-lead narrative already recorded on the census/TACL pages — no new FPCLA fact. SKIP: verified-saturated; canonical org page carries detail.