...of theological education have seldom enjoyed the same measure of tolerance as local congregations and are, for a variety of reasons, particularly precarious. Schools, by their very nature, are nodes...
...to declare and display the gospel to a watching world. Joining a local fellowship can never be an optional extra for a returnee believer—it is central to God’s plan for...
...at a local church and think, “I don’t need you,” or “I don’t belong with you.” “In Christ,” returnee believers form one body with local Christians of all kinds. Church...
...work. As a local congregation, they minister to local people and shepherd the local believers. The quality or amount of training that people working with Chinese have received varies wildly....
...of a crying baby; the narrator’s infant and pen name is Tadpole; Northeast Gaomi Township is swampy and quite overrun by frogs and its local news is the Frog Calls...
...largest mission field in the world. During the next 30 years, China will still contain the largest number of nonbelievers and unreached peoples [ ] China has 2300 county-level cities....
...people and nations though the practice takes many forms, what unites these efforts is a commitment to sustainable transformation, captured by a three-fold object: 1) profitability and sustainability, 2) local...
...They told us that sending kids to the local school would help them learn the language quickly and to make many local friends. When our daughter was born, we planned...
...that the organization’s goal was to launch a movement while the local partner’s goal was to build stability in the church. The foreign entity was looking for numbers; the local...
...in China, Richard was involved in a great variety of gospel work, ranging from empowering local believers and organizing famine relief work, to interacting with local religionists and publishing for...
David Joannes is Founder/President of Within Reach Global and author of The Space Between Memories. I recently talked with David about working with local Christians in China who serve among...
...China will remain the largest mission field in the world. During the next 30 years, China will still contain the largest number of nonbelievers and unreached people.[ ] China has...