A Chinese Missionary to Nepal (Part 2)
...I couldn't communicate because of the language barrier. Even though I saw the need for ministry, I couldn't serve with my language limitations. Then I began to realize that God...
...I couldn't communicate because of the language barrier. Even though I saw the need for ministry, I couldn't serve with my language limitations. Then I began to realize that God...
...their situations neatly. It is necessary to look at individual cases. Returnee ministry is a global-church need and is related to the global-church movement. Returnee ministry doesn’t fit into one...
...on, they became a regular feature of our teaching life. Some of my teammates loved them; however, because I’m not a great conversationalist, I came to dread them. Furthermore, I...
...the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some" (1 Corinthians 9:22). The successful...
...was in March of 2012 when I was doing research for my book The Bells Are Not Silent: Stories of Church Bells in China. Here’s what I write about the...
...need for mentoring. Is the Chinese Church a Test-Case for “The Benedict Option”? (March 23, 2017, Jackson Wu) While the book offers “a strategy for Christians in a post-Christian nation,”...
In a previous From the West Courtyard post I wrote about seven trends, or transitions, facing foreign workers in China, along with the factors that are driving these transitions. Here...
...at a book club in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 25 about her book The Bells Are Not Silent: Stories of Church Bells in China. Brent Fulton was quoted by Ian...
Longtime China journalist Ian Johnson will soon release his new book The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao. In it he presents a picture of the richness...
...overseas who serve the church in China as a critical need. The fact that urban Christian leaders identify discipleship as more of a priority perhaps suggests that they are more...
...I like this place—very relaxed. It has my favorite tea—Jasmine. I fell in love with it when I got involved in China ministry years ago. Zoe: I enjoy tea as...
...that, for me, the most staggering sentence of the whole book was from his introduction: “When I first lived in China in 1973 not one Christian church was open to...