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Living Legacy

Living Legacy | The Mustard Seed Mission - Illustrated v2
SINCE 1952  ·  TAIWAN

Living Legacy

A seed becomes a tree.
The tree keeps growing.

A growing mustard tree connects a Hualien vocational workshop, a Wanli coastal retreat, and children, young people, and mentors.

A story still unfolding

Some legacies live in the present tense.

In 1952, The Mustard Seed Mission began as a small act of faith — a seed planted for Taiwan’s most vulnerable children and families. Founder Lillian Dickson believed that faith should look like action: a roof over a child’s head, a trade in a young person’s hands, a quiet place to rest and be renewed.

More than seventy years later, that seed has grown into a tree — and the tree is still growing. Some parts of MSM’s history aren’t kept behind glass. They’re places you can still visit, work you can still see, and communities still being served today.

Seven decades, still growing

A Timeline That’s Still Being Written

1952

A Seed Is Planted

Taiwan

The Mustard Seed Mission begins serving vulnerable children and families, guided by founder Lillian Dickson’s belief that care should be practical, personal, and enduring.

1963

Skills That Create Opportunity

Beipu, Hualien

Lillian Dickson establishes a vocational training center for Indigenous youth — one of MSM’s earliest commitments to dignity through meaningful work.

1965

A Place to Rest and Grow

Wanli, New Taipei City

A mountainside conference ground opens facing the Pacific Ocean, inspired by the founder’s hope that children and teenagers could enjoy a carefree life in nature.

TODAY

The Legacy Continues

Still open. Still serving.

Both sites remain active — living expressions of a vision that continues to create space, opportunity, and connection across generations.

Living proof

Where the Legacy Lives Today

Two places. Two enduring expressions of the same belief: people deserve room to rest, learn, and grow.

Illustrated Lillian Dickson Conference Ground with a yellow-roof retreat, green hillside, children, and the Pacific Ocean.

SINCE 1965 · WANLI, NEW TAIPEI CITY

Lillian Dickson
Conference Ground

Facing the Pacific Ocean and Keelung Island from the mountains of Wanli, this ground was built on our founder’s hope: a space where children and teenagers could enjoy a carefree life in nature. Today it still hosts summer camps, retreats, and quiet space for renewal — body, mind, and spirit.

Summer campsRetreatsCoastal nature
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Illustrated Beipu Vocational Training Center with a mountain workshop, mentor and young baker, bread, tools, and a bicycle.

SINCE 1963 · BEIPU, HUALIEN COUNTY

Vocational
Training Center

In 1963, founder Lillian Dickson opened a vocational training center in Beipu — one of MSM’s earliest commitments to dignity through meaningful work. Today, across more than three hectares, it runs as a working social enterprise: a bakery workshop, a craft studio, a bike station, and venue space, with all proceeds reinvested in MSM’s mission.

Bakery workshopCraft studioBike station
WORKING HOLIDAY

Youth and seniors can join a working holiday here — trading a few days of hands-on work for mountain views, ocean air, and a different pace of life.

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“This is what a living legacy looks like — not a monument to what The Mustard Seed Mission once did, but proof of what it’s still doing.”

Every trade taught, every child hosted, every guest welcomed carries the founder’s vision another year forward.

1952STILL GROWING
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