What Is Our Role?
...well as the church in China, both the specific local body and the larger church as a whole. To know whether one is indeed making a valid contribution requires a...
...well as the church in China, both the specific local body and the larger church as a whole. To know whether one is indeed making a valid contribution requires a...
Image credit: Huangshan 黄山 – Road to South End of Xihai (West Sea) Grand Canyon 西海大峽谷 by Kwong Yee Cheng, on Flickr...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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...