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Rev. James I. Cheng (鄭義勇牧師)

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Rev. James I. Cheng (鄭義勇牧師)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Rev. James I. Cheng
  • Chinese: 鄭義勇牧師
  • Era: 1937
  • Geography: Chiayi, Taiwan
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. Convener of the program group of the Taiwanese American Conference-East Coast (美東台灣人夏令會節目組召集人)

Education

  • Tainan Theological College & Seminary (台南神學院) — 1963 — B. Th.
  • Yale Divinity School — 1967 — M. Div. — 1968 — S.T.M.

Employment

  • National Capital Presbytery, Presbyterian Church (USA) — Honorary Retired Minister — New Orleans Chinese Presbyterian Church (紐奧良華人長老會) — Pastor — Taiwanese Presbyterian Church of Washington (華府台灣基督長老教會) — Pastor — (2006-2009) — Taiwanese United Church in Toronto (多倫多台灣聯合教會) — Pastor — Community — FAPA/Pennsylvania Chapter — Founding President — Taiwanese American Conference-East Coast (美東台灣人夏令會) — Convener of the Program Group

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

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Timeline

  • 1937 — Born in Chiayi, Taiwan
  • 1963 — B. Th., Tainan Theological College & Seminary (台南神學院)
  • 1967 — M. Div., Yale Divinity School; 1968 — S.T.M.
  • Pastor, New Orleans Chinese Presbyterian Church (紐奧良華人長老會)
  • Pastor, Taiwanese United Church in Toronto (多倫多台灣聯合教會)
  • Pastor, Taiwanese Presbyterian Church of Washington (華府台灣基督長老教會), 2006–2009
  • Founding President, FAPA/Pennsylvania Chapter
  • Convener of the Program Group, Taiwanese American Conference-East Coast (美東台灣人夏令會節目組召集人)
  • Honorary Retired Minister, National Capital Presbytery, Presbyterian Church (USA)

Network

  • |PCT — TAH Who’s Who

Deepen — 2026-09-10 (vault-only pass)

Absorbed from this page’s own cited TAH tables; no new external facts:

  • Trained at Tainan Theological College & Seminary (B.Th., 1963) and Yale Divinity School (M.Div. 1967, S.T.M. 1968); his Yale years connect to the affiliated vault page |Yale Taiwanese Student Association.
  • Pastoral ministry spanned three cities: New Orleans (紐奧良華人長老會), Toronto (多倫多台灣聯合教會), and the Washington DC area (華府台灣基督長老教會, 2006–2009); honorary retired minister, National Capital Presbytery, PC(USA).
  • Founding President, FAPA/Pennsylvania Chapter — the vault documents other FAPA chapters such as |FAPA Los Angeles and |FAPA Orange County; also Convener of the Program Group, 美東台灣人夏令會.
  • Ordained ministry rooted in the |Presbyterian Church in Taiwan tradition.

Deepen — 2026-09-14 (vault-only pass)

Re-checked this page’s cited TAH records; no new external facts, two additional existing-page links:

  • His Yale Divinity School years (M.Div. 1967, S.T.M. 1968) are additionally contextualized by the vault’s |Taiwanese American Society at Yale, which documents the same Yale Taiwanese community alongside the |Yale Taiwanese Student Association.
  • His FAPA/Pennsylvania Chapter founding sits within the same FAPA chapter structure recorded in the vault at |FAPA Los Angeles and |FAPA Orange County.
  • His 美東台灣人夏令會 convener role has no East-Coast conference page in the vault (only the west-coast counterpart |TAC-WC exists); his source record is [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1691-james-i-cheng||TAH Who’s Who #1691]] and his denominational root is |PCT — cross-link pass DEEPEN-X09140107-4, no new pages created.

Deepen — 2026-10-10 (corpus pass)

Fresh ZH grep (鄭義勇) across works/articles/sources/events/topics found four substantive memoir mentions — community-record material, not press-kit:

  • Yale seminary circle (1960s): 徐頌鵬’s memoir of the first 美東台灣人夏令會 recalls knowing 鄭義勇 among the Yale Divinity School Taiwanese students/pastors — the group that, though not directly involved in the 1970 founding, made “非常大的貢獻” to later East-Coast conferences as invited main speakers (2016).
  • TAC-EC preacher (1977 era): 張啟典’s account of the 1977 TAC/EC lists 鄭義勇 among the preachers (吳明雄、鄭義勇、郭榮敏、王成章、林興隆) at a conference that then balanced religious and hometown-association programming (2018).
  • 45th TAC-EC (2014): 翁進治’s 備忘錄 records that the final-day Sunday worship was presided over by 鄭義勇牧師 (2016).
  • 1977 Midwest conference — attribution nuance: 【自覺與認同】 states the 1977-07-22~24 Midwest Taiwanese Summer Institute (Grand Rapids, MI; theme 「海外台灣基督徒的使命」) was “由鄭義勇等主持”; the 中西部夏令會簡史 author adds that, as Midwest Taiwanese understand it, this was a Taiwanese-Christians retreat rather than the mainstream conference. HOLD: book attribution vs. community recollection — recorded, not merged. (2021)
  • Name-collision note: work 37. James Cheng 鄭乃榮 links this page as a subject, but its text contains no mention of 鄭義勇 — the “James Cheng” there is 鄭乃榮. HOLD: the subject link appears to be a name collision; not treated as evidence.

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