This story goes back to the early 1960s, when Presbyterian congregations in Yuantou and Chichou rural districts of Changhua county happened to hear about Brazil's life of plenty and its liberal immigration policy, and bearing in mind Taiwan's limited land, high population density and poor prospects for farmers, they decided without hesitation.
這也要追溯到民國五○年代初期。彰化二林鎮原斗里與溪州鄉長老會教友們，在偶然的機會中聽說巴西物阜民豐，而且開放移民，於是原本就覺得台灣地狹人稠、農業前景不大的教友們不免心動。