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Is Your Organization a Fit for China?
[…] the wrong reasons. (They may actually be more interested in connections or influence you are perceived to have, or resources you may bring, than in the actual service you intend to provide.) Who else is doing or has tried doing something similar? What have they learned? Discovering what works and what doesn't in China […]
Editorials
The Stewardship Gap
[…] practice stewardship into the future bears watching by a global church that is itself in need of rediscovering true stewardship. Image credit: Journal Entry (Joel Montes de Oca) by Chris Lott, on Flickr Footnotes ^ Mark Foreman, Wholly Jesus: His Surprising Approach to Wholeness and Why it Matters Today. Boise, Idaho: Ampelon Publishing, 2008, p. 208.
Unmasking China’s “Official” Church
[…] is included the total number of Christians served by this one church rises to around 5,000. The pastor goes on to explain, "The biggest challenge is the call to share the gospel with everyone in our district. We praise God for the 5000 believers in our church, but in a district of close to […]
Hospitality, a Comic Book, the Bible, and Lot
A Conversion Story in China
[…] out as particularly uncommon. The following is one such story. It is both encouraging and instructive: Encouraging in that it reminds us Christ did “not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance,” and instructive in that it reminds us “faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ”. To maintain […]
Transitions Large and Small
[…] Walling refers specifically to three major transitions that shape our lives. The first usually occurs early on, in one’s 20s or 30s, and involves discerning one’s life calling. The second, which involves focusing in on those things for which one is uniquely equipped and gifted (and saying “no” to all the other good things […]
How the Church Grows in China
[…] to ask how this growth is taking place. This is the approach taken by Steve Z, a pastor, writer, researcher, and specialist on church development who in 2017 and 2018 undertook a random sample survey of congregations in 18 Chinese provinces and municipalities. This summer ChinaSource will feature a blog series highlighting the results […]
Is China Persecuting More Christians for their Faith?
<p>According to the China Aid 13.8% more Christians in China were persecuted last year as compared with 2011, continuing a trend of increasing persecution that goes back to at least 2007.</p>
Editorials
Serving China Revisited
[…] the input of our counterparts in China or Chinese brothers and sisters overseas? Or is it truly our desire that they be successful in what God has called them to do, even if we can’t take the credit? Our Attitude Being willing to seek out and accept their input requires, in the words of […]
American Evangelicalism and China: A Necessary Conversation
[…] of American capitalist values on the current ministry mindset in China? How will American pragmatism and individualism shape China’s emerging mission movement? For those of us who call the Beautiful Country home, all these questions deserve sober reflection. Yet they are ultimately not ours to answer. Addressing his readers in China, Ren Xiaopeng asks, […]
Lead Article
The Marketization of China’s Education
[…] while only two-fifths of expenditures goes to elementary and junior high levels. In some rural areas the actual per pupil expenditure is less than 10 yuan (US$1. 20) per year. Rural parents are beginning to question whether schooling is a way out of poverty in modern China. Even hard working students often have little […]