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Editorials

Facing Transitions

[…] to be faced alone. A wealth of resources is available for those who find themselves facing change. Amy Young’s Looming Transitions: Starting and Finishing Well in Cross-Cultural Service is accompanied by an activity book for families and a workbook for those in transition. In her review, Cassie Cahill echoes the sentiments of many who […]

Blog Entries

Skills No Longer Needed

[…] that they do not belong in this multicultural society. When in a park, being aware at every moment of who is near my children and whether their phone is pointing at them. At the same time, monitoring the pulse of my children’s stress levels. Do they notice the attention on them and, today, do […]

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How Not to End Persecution

[…] of those who suffer for their faith. Katrina Lantos Swett remarked that the summit “met at a moment of great promise and peril.” While lauding the unprecedented number of countries represented and their myriad initiatives to advance freedom of religion or belief globally, she also questioned recent measures at home that undercut the efforts […]

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China Ministry and Transformational Development (2)

The End of an Era?

[…] has been established by a local employee of the foreign Christian ministry organization to provide peer support, skill-training, and discipleship mentoring for leaders in Shanxi’s fledgling social service sector. As this case demonstrates, relief and development work is still very much a part of Christian witness in China. Similar to every other aspect of […]

Editorials

Serving China Revisited

[…] journal we focus on those who serve cross-culturally in China today. In the second chapter of Philippians, the apostle Paul looks at three critical areas related to service that we would do well to revisit as we consider what it means to serve China. Our Motivation After appealing for unity among the Philippian believers, […]

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Closing the Gaps

[…] they leave China, for those sent out as missionaries it is just beginning. Together both groups comprise perhaps several hundred people. Yet there are many times that number of Christians among the hundreds of thousands of ordinary Chinese leaving China each year. They are neither in such dire straits that they require rescue or […]

Book Reviews

Redeemed by Fire

The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China

[…] indigenous tradition Lian has described, it is possible that a new chapter is being written and that the role of the indigenous Chinese church in the 21st century may be very different from that of the previous hundred years. Image credit: Rae Fire. Blowing flames. by U.S. Forest Service, Southwestern Region, Kaibab National Forest, on Flickr

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Wendy Blazes a Trail

<p>Nearly 10 years ago, at the age of 15, Wendy (Su Ying) joined our family here at Shepherd's Field Children's Village from her home orphanage in Fuzhou. Wendy was born with paraplegia, which left her unable to walk or actively move her body from the waist down. Regardless of her physical limitations, Wendy proved to be a […]

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Who’s in Charge?

[…] strategies, budgets, and priorities set in agency boardrooms thousands of miles away, how can the workers from China be expected to lead? Multiply this tension by the number of different agencies represented on any given field, and it is no wonder this brother from China, when asked about partnering with international organizations, said, “It’s […]

Editorials

The Olympic Challenge

[…] any inquiry with a tired meiyou (meaning— “We don’t have it.”), today—“Welcome!” and “Can I help you?” are becoming more common phrases as Beijing moves toward a service-oriented culture. Newly built parks add color to what was once a very gray landscape, while overhead gigantic billboards proclaim China’s dream of hosting “the best Olympics […]