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My Problem with Progress
[…] of following the general letter of the law (passport photocopy? long-time customer? correctly-chopped police receipt?), or even a verbal okay from the Public Security official over the phone would have been sufficient to grease the wheels of the bureaucracy enough for me to get my money—perhaps with a promise to return with my passport […]
Financial Considerations in Chinese Missionary Sending
Sources of Support and Difficulties in Raising Finances
Chinese Christians feel God calling them to long-term mission service. Attrition rates of Chinese missionaries are high, however, and a number of difficulties (including finances) hinder Chinese missionary sending. As part of a study examining causes of Chinese missionary attrition, I recently interviewed eleven Chinese long-term missionaries using a questionnaire developed by the World Evangelical Fellowship. In […]
ZGBriefs | June 16, 2016
<p></p> <p>Video: Sichuan Cuisine, Imperiled by Success (June 14, 2016, <em>The New York Times</em>)<br /> “Sichuanese cuisine really faces a crisis,” said Wang Kaifa, a 71-year-old chef who has been leading a campaign against what he sees as the creeping debasement of the region’s celebrated cooking. “The scene feels like it’s booming, but this is […]
ZGBriefs | July 9, 2015
<p></p> <p>The really worrying financial crisis is happening in China, not Greece (July 7, 2015, The Telegraph)<br /> While all Western eyes remain firmly focused on Greece, a potentially much more significant financial crisis is developing on the other side of world. In some quarters, it’s already being called China’s 1929 – the year of […]
ZGBriefs | November 3, 2016
<p></p> <p>How the Education Consultancy Industry Fuels Essay Fraud (November 2, 2016, Sixth Tone)<br /> Once again, as high school students across China agonize over their American college essays, allegations of fraud plague the education industry. Dipont Education Management Group, a large Shanghai-based educational consultancy, has become the most recent target of accusations, with reports […]
How Many Christians Are There in China? It’s Complicated
[…] illustrate, I reached out to three individuals in the China academic and ministry communities and posed these two questions: 1) What is your preferred estimate on the number of Christians in China? 2) How do you arrive at that estimate? Professor Fenggang Yang of Purdue University responded in Part 1. Dr. Carsten Vala of […]
Post-Conference Reflections on Expatriate Ministry in China
[…] of the year when their Chinese friends want nothing more than to sit around and talk about life and family. But hey, who doesn’t enjoy warm beaches, cheap shopping, donuts, Swensons ice cream, and unhindered Google access? The yearly Thailand exodus is now so much a “normal” part of China service that one wonders […]
Concerns of a Three-Self Pastor for 2020
. . . before the Covid-19 Crisis
[…] Christian Council (CCC), there are about 60,000 church buildings, over 14,000 clergy (pastors, teachers, and elders), and about 22,000 fulltime preachers. In terms of development, although the number of pastoral staff has clearly increased, yet in terms of the church’s needs, the problem is still severe. We have no way of calculating the number […]
Four Decades of Church Growth in China
Looking beyond the numbers to understand the factors that contributed to the unprecedented growth of the church in China.
Peace in Detention
[…] I wouldn’t. The female officer said, “How do you know you wouldn’t?” I said that I wouldn’t, because of my faith and my conscience. They made a phone call to bring in their boss. Police officer numbered _____ looked very kind and friendly. He came in and said, “I’ve read some of the Bible. […]