Resources from 2018
The Resource Library is where you will find the latest resources from across our publications.
I’m Off to Fix Something
This tendency towards fixing (be it personal or societal) can often be a cultural clash point. We look around and see so much that we don’t understand and the “why” questions start bubbling to the surface. Is our motivation to fix what we perceive as broken, or to learn how the society is organized and the thinking behind it?
Plastic China
A Film Review
A glimpse of how two families live their lives recycling plastic waste in China.
ZGBriefs | August 2, 2018
How a Chinese cook helped establish Yosemite and the National Park Service (July 22, 2018, NBC News) “Hundreds of Chinese go to Yosemite. ... Imagine what the experience would be for them if they knew that Chinese worked on these roads over a hundred years ago.”
China’s New Approach to Religion
Implications for the Church
What are the new challenges facing Christians in China?
The Struggles of the Chinese Rural Church
The pastor of a rural congregation shares the challenges his church faces.
The Three Cultures of a Third Culture Kid
TCKs do not grow up in any one culture, but in between them, under the influence of multiple cultures.
ZGBriefs | July 26, 2018
Airlines comply with demand from China that Taiwan not be referred to as a sovereign nation (July 25, 2018, The Los Angeles Times)
U.S. airlines have begun to comply with a Chinese demand that Taiwan be referred to as a part of China.
An Effective Bridge
Today the question foreign organizations are asking (or should be asking) is how to serve with the church in China.
The Testimony of a Pastor’s Wife
A pastor shares his grandmother’s moving testimony as a shimu, pastor’s wife, in a time of war and hardship, and how she impacted his call to ministry.