Here is a list of some of the kinds of activities open to foreigners in various registered Chinese churches:
- Participation in regular prayer meetings
- English teaching
- Vacation Bible School programs
- Instrumental and choral instruction
- Instrumental and choral performance during worship services
- Performing at Christmas and Easter outreach services
- Training children’s Sunday School teachers
- Arranging retreats for local pastors and young people
- Marriage and family seminars
- Speaking at young people’s retreats
- Financial support
- Preaching
- Participating in church clothing drives (for poor believers)
- Volunteering at church clinics, orphanages, and retirement homes
- Taking blood pressures at church volunteer service days
- Joining church work teams on cleaning days
- Introducing new books to be sold at church bookstores
Andrew T. Kaiser
Andrew T. Kaiser, author of Voices from the Past: Historical Reflections on Christian Missions in China, The Rushing on of the Purposes of God: Christian Missions in Shanxi since 1876, and Encountering China: The Evolution of Timothy Richard’s Missionary Thought (1870–1891) has been living and working in Shanxi with his …View Full Bio