The Shop Church: The Second Mile
...working in factory areas. In China’s Pearl River Delta alone, there are over ten million migrants working. In one factory in Shenzhen, there are over 200,000 migrant workers. How can...
...working in factory areas. In China’s Pearl River Delta alone, there are over ten million migrants working. In one factory in Shenzhen, there are over 200,000 migrant workers. How can...
...a tiny portion of the total Chinese Christian population. Although the number of people currently doing business is the highest in the history of China, only a small number of...
...leadership described in Gailyn Van Rheenen Missions: Biblical Foundations & Contemporary Strategies (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996,) excerpted in http://missiology.org/essential tasks/trainingleaders.htm. ^ It should be noted that this trend is gradually changing, with more...
...of Hessler’s special friend, Polat, we see how they are evolving, and how are they fitting into China’s grand puzzle. One feels the tension and the uneasiness. Polat starts out...
...At the same time, the testimony and experience gained by the house churches from years of persecution accumulated in the local channel. Spiritual resources from both channels fed and caused...
...exchange of ideas and sharing of one’s faith. Local believers must belong to a local group and be part of their national body of Christ in order to have sustainability....
...internet chat rooms. By 2006, China had 460 million cell phone subscribers (Xinhua News Agency, February 19, 2007). During the two week Spring Festival holiday this year, Chinese people sent...
...exporter.[2] There are 132 million Internet users in China (representing 10 percent of the population). While the USA leads with 210 million users, the number of users in China exceeds...
...opportunities for ministry. These may be in the training or mentoring of local believers; in education, theological or otherwise; in social services, with intellectuals, professionals or business people. Apart from...
...peasant migrants will live in the Pearl River Delta, with lesser concentrations in the Yangtze River Delta, Fuzhou, Jinan, Shandong, Beijing, Kunming and Chongqing. The demographic trajectory between now and...
...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...
...into disuse, because they don’t really meet the local need, being replaced by the latest program to come along. The program cannot be adapted to meet local needs; neither can...