My Heart Aches for Shanxi but with Hope
...to return to our home in China—to our work, our co-workers, and many local friends, all whom we love in Shanxi? Even now, it looks like travel to China may...
...to return to our home in China—to our work, our co-workers, and many local friends, all whom we love in Shanxi? Even now, it looks like travel to China may...
...state-recognized Protestant pastor and local bureaucrats, this article argues that church leaders in contemporary China are strategic in enhancing interactions with the local state as a way to produce greater...
...Missionary Association (CMA)1 during tumultuous times in China. The specific conflicts the women lived through included country-side bandit raids in the Qing Dynasty’s declining decades, local and provincial warlords fighting...
...also emerged. In conversations and interviews, some local church leaders expressed concern that highly integrated networks—expanding across cities with efficiency enabled by digital infrastructure—could place strain on local church ecosystems....
...to local officials, amid concerns over the eradication of ethnic Uyghur funeral traditions. Going Global (June 27, 2018, ChinaSource Blog) To engage with China’s church today means not only connecting with what...
...building during a worship service, according to reports. More than 30 officials, including local police, state security and local district administration, came with trucks and took away all the property,...
...came with many signs and wonders of God’s provisions, showing how the Holy Spirit could work through local spiritual traditions and affect the Chinese local people in their poverty and...
...is noteworthy that Robert actively promoted local Chinese leadership and encouraged the training of Chinese workers. He strongly believed that “China could never be reached except through its own people”...
...our Lord and serve the local church. Change in the lives of leaders brings about change in local churches. The culture of “saving face” can be replaced by the culture...
...local branches of the prefecture or provincial level committees. They are separate committees and each has to report to the local party-state. Also, the county-level committee or association overseas all...
...Overseas partners were encouraged to give a higher regard to relationship building with the local leaders than to projects and work and to help in nurturing the life of local...
...leadership should be evaluating whether their efforts are the local expression of faith. For the purposes of this article, I would like to highlight two of these indicators and use...