The Challenges of Localization (4)
...local income. They, too, sense the increasing limitations of outside finances, while at the same time recognize the increased financial strength of the local Christian community. In most cases, Chinese...
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7 Trends for Foreign Christians in China
...some roles in the past were simply not open to local Christians—or there were no local Christians available to fill them—foreign Christians today have the opportunity to introduce local counterparts...
A Government Mouthpiece Reports on a Missionary Movement
...cover living expenses by collecting money from local believers and through remittances by their sending church. Churches typically offer classes on local language, culture and customs before missionaries are sent...
Hold to the Tension
...the local culture: hurt feelings, damaging impressions, failed plans, lost opportunities . Cross-cultural work that does not make it a priority to engage with the local culture on its own...
Advance and Retreat
...do business with them. For Han missionaries, business provides an identity and a good opportunity to build relationships with local people, assuming you are indeed doing business there and doing...
Thinking about What China Thinks
...hampered). Some of the general ideas make sense to local politicians, but these are not the concepts that they themselves employ in their own conversations. Provincial officials, university academics, local...
Medical Work as Whole Person Transformation
...has changed significantly over the years. Local health systems have improved, and Westerners have seen the value of integrating their work into the community and of training local health workers....
Good Neighbor Model of Missions
...Wenzhou is called “the Jerusalem of China.”2 This change testifies to the practice of local missions, the result of outward environmental changes directly affecting the local model of missions in...
Search and Research
...spend a few hours in the local Xin Hua (新华) bookstore browsing through sections to buy books on social and cultural issues relating to the local people groups. I have...
Worshiping in Chinese
This series of blog entries refers primarily to the question of expatriate Christians attending Chinese services at registered—or at least publicly "open"—local churches. It is assumed that in most cases,...
A Crossroads that Demands Profound Faith
...along the coast. These latter missionaries tended to take a more circumspect approach to the local culture, encouraging their converts to give up Chinese traditional rites that seemed ambivalent at...
The Sanjiang Church Incident: More than Meets the Eye
...ongoing tension between church leaders (even TSPM) and local officials, particularly when it comes to land use a hot topic in cities across China, where local officials' ability to control...