The first four missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived in Taiwan by boat from Hong Kong on June 2, 1956. During the next 30 years, thousands of people in Taiwan joined the Church. It is these members that we refer to as Taiwan Pioneers.

Many of these early converts eventually emigrated to the United States and Canada. This group began gathering informally at family events beginning in the 1990s. In 2000 they held their first formal reunion in southern California to which they invited the returned missionaries who served in Taiwan during those pioneering years. They have been holding regular reunions since 2000 as the "Taiwan Overseas LDS Member-Missionary Reunion Committee" (台灣海外後期聖徒及返鄉傳教士團聚委員會).

Sister Yao Lien Hill (姚濂), who joined the Church in Taichung in the 1960s, later served a full-time mission in Taiwan, and who now lives in Burbank, California, has been particularly instrumental in organizing these reunions.

In 2006 nearly 100 members of this group of members and missionaries traveled to Taiwan to participate in festivities surrounding the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first missionaries to Taiwan. Among them group were two of the four original missionaries, Melvin Fish and Weldon Kitchen (錢文長).

In 2010 the Taiwan Overseas LDS Member-Missionary Reunion Committee will hold their reunion on July 8 - 11 in Oakland, California. Registration forms are available on this website.