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Rev. Ben M.C. Hsieh (謝敏川牧師)

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Rev. Ben M.C. Hsieh (謝敏川牧師)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Rev. Ben M.C. Hsieh
  • Chinese: 謝敏川牧師
  • Era: 1935
  • Geography: Taichung, Taiwan
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. Reverend of Taiwanese/American Fellowship Presbyterian Church of New Jersey (紐澤西台美團契長老教會牧師)1986-2005

Education

  • Tainan Theological Seminary — 1960 — M.Div.
  • Rutgers University, NJ — 1976 — M.S., Sociology

Employment

  • TAFPC, NJ — Pastor — (1986-2005) — Community — Taiwan Christian Church Council of North America — President

Family

  • Wife: 吳芳肅

Role in the Community

  • TAFPC NJ 第二任牧師 (1986–2005): Installed as the second pastor of 紐澤西台美團契長老教會 on 1986-11-02, serving 19 years; the congregation rented First Reformed Church as its meeting place on 1989-07-16 (New Brunswick as members’ residential center), moved to New Brunswick Presbyterian Church on 2002-08-26 as growth continued, and he retired in 2005 after 19 years of pastoring and 45 years of service to the church — the session installed him as 榮譽牧師 (honorary pastor); his successor 董俊蘭牧師（董俊蘭）was installed as third pastor on 2007-01-21 (TAFPC founding memoir).
  • Church planting mentor: In 1995 the memoir author borrowed 10 Bibles and a hymnal from TAFPC and opened his Pennsylvania home as a ~12-member Bible study; under 謝敏川’s guidance this ran two mission/planting experiments, including a month-long collaboration attempt with Woodside Presbyterian Church bringing Pennsylvania seekers to worship there. Believers subsequently baptized in the Pennsylvania area through this effort: 杜智惠、洪國輝、蔡宗元、莊榮輝母親、藍錫坤、陳姿容、Kelly Lan、Jerry Lan、Edward Chiang, with 許資敏 confirmed in the faith (per the memoir author’s account of the plant under 謝敏川’s direction). He preached at the plant’s inaugural thanksgiving service on Easter 1999-04-04 at Slackwood church (250+ attendees; 陳東亮 read scripture, 李智惠 sang, 蔡其芳 offered the gifts, Rev. 蔡清波 blessed, Rev. Floyd Fletcher welcomed) (NJ church-planting memoir).
  • Published writer: Author of 牧野溪流 (2009-06, religion) ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/186-e7-89-a7-e9-87-8e-e6-ba-aa-e6-b5-81-e8-ac-9d-e6-95-8f-e5-b7-9d-2009-06-e5-ae|TAH #186]]).
  • Interim supply pastors (from the founding memoir): in the vacancy before his 1986 installation, 張德香、黃武東（黃武東）、王成章（王成章）牧師 guest-pastored TAFPC, per the same memoir that records his installation (TAFPC founding memoir).
  • TAH encyclopedia records: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/144-rev-m-c-ben-hsieh|TAH #144]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-888-ben-m-c-hsieh|TAH #888]].
  • Church-layer mention network (from the same two memoirs): the TAFPC founding and church-planting memoirs additionally name 董俊蘭牧師（董俊蘭）, 劉照男, 林茂清, 蔡其芳（蔡其芳）, 陳東亮, 李智惠 and Paul C. Tsai alongside 謝敏川 in the NJ/Southern-PA 長老教會 circle of the 1980s–2000s（[[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys14|Our Journeys #14]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys43|Our Journeys #43]]）。

Corpus re-scan 2026-09-22 (slice 22): all works hits (#144, #888, #14, #43, 牧野溪流 #186) already absorbed; no new corpus material — this pass only added the mention-network line above.

Sources

Corpus re-scan 2026-09-23 (deepen-x slice 09221200-2): fresh grep 謝敏川/Hsieh — hit set identical to prior pass (index, #144, #888, #14, #43, #186); verified-saturated.

Corpus re-scan 2026-09-24 (deepen-x slice 09230600-4): fresh grep 謝敏川/Hsieh across works/ + articles/ — hit set identical (index, #144, #888, #14, #43, #186); verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.

Corpus re-scan 2026-09-25 (deepen-x slice 09240600-8): fresh grep 謝敏川/Hsieh across works/ + articles/ — hit set identical (#144, #888, OJ14, OJ43, 牧野溪流 #186); verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.

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