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Rev. Hung-Jen Liu (劉弘仁)

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Rev. Hung-Jen Liu (劉弘仁)

Rev. Hung-Jen Liu (劉弘仁牧師) is a Taiwanese Presbyterian minister serving in the Bay Area under the PCUSA Presbytery of San Francisco (舊金山中會), listed in the TCCCNA directory of Taiwanese-American PCUSA pastors. Community reporting (2026-09-20, Leonard Hsu Jr.) assesses him as likely the same Rev. Liu Hung-jen who served as Moderator of the Changhua Presbytery (彰化中會議長) of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan in the mid-1970s — pending owner/congregation confirmation.

Identity Snapshot

  • Era: 1970s–present
  • Geography: Changhua, Taiwan → San Francisco Bay Area (Tri-Valley: Pleasanton/Dublin, CA)
  • Core roles: pastor, presbytery moderator, Taiwanese-American church leader

Name Variants

  • 劉弘仁 (Chinese)
  • Hung Jen Liu — as printed by the TCCCNA PCUSA directory (primary source for the English form; Wade-Giles-style romanization of the Mandarin reading)
  • John Hung Jen Liu — TCCCNA listing includes the English given name “John”
  • Hong Ren Liu / Hung-jen Liu / Liu Hung-jen — pinyin and Tongyromaji-influenced variants of the same Chinese name; low confidence that the subject ever published under these forms
  • Not to be confused with: 吳泓仁 Hung-Jen Wu (engineer, hung-jen-wu); Dr. Hung-Jen Liu 劉弘仁 (child psychiatrist, Taipei — different person); 劉弘威 Goodwin Liu (加州最高法院大法官 — grep collision on 劉弘~仁 in the corpus, different person); Rev. William Lew 劉靄泉 (英語部牧師 at Formosan Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys231|TAH #231]] — another 劉牧師, different person)

Ministry

  • Taiwan (PCT) — Moderator of the Changhua Presbytery (彰化中會議長), mid-1970s. On 1975-05-02 he officiated the founding and dedication (開設與獻堂感恩禮拜) of the Ren’ai Church (仁愛教會) of Xinbao village, Fangyuan, Changhua county, bringing it into the PCT. The church emerged from a split in the newly built Xinbao congregation (a cross-denominational pastoral intervention caused an ideological division); as a breakaway group it needed presbytery-level reception — which is why the Moderator himself officiated. The congregation built its own sanctuary in 1980, was elevated to full self-governing 堂會 status on 1984-08-04, and called its first settled pastor on 1984-12-30: |PCT church history.
  • United States (PCUSA) — Minister of record within the Presbytery of San Francisco (屬舊金山中會), Tri-Valley residence (Pleasanton/Dublin area). Listed in the TCCCNA PCUSA directory as Rev. John Hung Jen Liu with home phone 925-803-1608 and email jencat926@yahoo.com — no settled congregation shown (directory ◇ format = minister without pulpit / retired-supply status), alongside Bay Area peers Rev. Peter Wu (Immanuel Fremont), Rev. KokThai Lim (ATC Grace Walnut Creek), Rev. Noah Chen (First United SF): |TCCCNA directory, compiled 2009, revised 2022-09-05.
  • Guest pulpit, Southern California — Preached at the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church (ITPC, Laguna Hills): 「悔改與救恩」 2021-07-18 (video archived, YouTube MEQMXi69yg4); 「祂的星」 01/25 listed on the ITPC sermons/videos page.

Network

  • San Francisco lunch with Rev. Dr. Choan-Seng Song — recalled in the 2024-12-25 Taiwan Church News memorial by Rev. Yang-I Hsieh (謝陽一, Atlanta; founding pastor of Lan David Memorial Church, Changhua, 1967, under Song’s patronage): Hsieh phoned Song while visiting SF, and Rev. Liu Hung-jen joined the lunch. Topics: the neglected Guanziling camp (關子嶺營地) and the Tainan Theological College affair (南神事件), where Song described misunderstanding, board-room unfairness, and humiliation. Since Song left the US in 2013, the lunch predates that. Places Liu inside Song’s elder-statesman circle — and, via Hsieh, directly in the same Changhua Presbytery cohort Liu led: |TCNN memorial.
  • Photographed with the parents of Leonard Hsu Jr. (許景鴻, TAHS) at the PC(USA) Desert Springs weekend retreat (Southern California, ~400 attendees, 2026-09-19/20) — Rev. Liu wears an event lanyard; Leonard himself was not in the photo. Photo in corpus custody: knowledge/interactions/photos/2026-09-desert-springs-retreat-hsu-parents-with-rev-hung-jen-liu.jpg (publication pending owner consent). Caption (owner slugs supplied 2026-09-20/21): Rev. Liu with 許丕龍 (Ahhee Hsu) and 蔡瀛如 (Tsai Ying-ju — private page, name only in captions per owner privacy gate).

Timeline

  • mid-1970s — Moderator, Changhua Presbytery (PCT).
  • 1975-05-02 — Officiated founding & dedication of Ren’ai Church, Fangyuan (Changhua): |PCT.
  • ≤2013 — Lunch with Rev. Dr. Choan-Seng Song in San Francisco (with Rev. Yang-I Hsieh): |TCNN.
  • 2009–2022 — Listed in TCCCNA PCUSA directory as Rev. John Hung Jen Liu, Presbytery of San Francisco, Tri-Valley: |TCCCNA.
  • 2017-07-18 — 劉弘仁 listed in 總務組 roster, Taiwanese Club of Laguna Woods Village newsletter (HOLD: unconfirmed same person).
  • 2021-07-18 — Guest pulpit, Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church: 「悔改與救恩」 (YouTube MEQMXi69yg4); later 「祂的星」 (01/25).
  • 2024-12-25 — Named in TCNN Song memorial as a co-guest.
  • 2026-09-19/20 — Photographed with the parents of Leonard Hsu Jr. (TAHS) at the PC(USA) Desert Springs weekend retreat, Southern California.

Possible identity (unmerged leads)

  • A 劉弘仁 appears in the general-affairs roster (總務組) of the Taiwanese Club of Laguna Woods Village newsletter, 2017-07-18 — SoCal laymember roster; same person is plausible (near ITPC) but unconfirmed. Archived in corpus: knowledge/web-archives/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/posts/newsletter-of-taiwanese-club-laguna-woods-village.md.

NEED YOU

Please confirm or correct: birth year; seminary and ordination year (Taiwan and/or PCUSA); pastoral placements before and after emigration; whether the 1975 Changhua Presbytery moderator is indeed the same person; current church appointment. Contact via TAHS / Echopedia.

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Revision History

  • 2026-10-11 — Deepen-X10101500-7 pass: verified-saturated. Fresh ZH+EN grep across works/articles/sources/events/topics returned the identical 3-hit set (TCCCNA directory, TCNN Song memorial, PCT Ren’ai history) — all already absorbed at fact level with wikilinks; no new corpus material, no conflicts to HOLD.
  • 2026-09-20 — Page created from web pass requested by Leonard Hsu Jr. (TAHS); identity merge (Changhua moderator) recorded as operator assessment, pending confirmation.
  • 2026-09-14 — Deepening pass (vault-first corpus grep + primary-source re-fetch): Ren’ai Church founding context expanded from PCT history; TCCCNA entry recorded at fact level (email/phone, no-pulpit format, Bay Area peer list); TCNN memorial expanded (Hsieh, Song’s 2013 return constraint); Timeline section added; 3 fact-level source pages created; negative sweep result (psychiatrist homonym) logged.
  • 2026-10-10 — Deepen-X pass: full-corpus grep (works/articles/sources/events/topics) for 劉弘仁 / Hung Jen Liu hits only the 3 already-absorbed vault source pages (TCCCNA, TCNN, PCT Ren’ai). Two new grep collisions identified as DIFFERENT people and added to disambiguation: 劉弘威 Goodwin Liu (CA Supreme Court justice; works 160 + taiwanjustice article) and Rev. William Lew 劉靄泉 (英語部牧師, FPCLA 50-year history, [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys231|TAH #231]]). No new absorbable facts.

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