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Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference
[…] loving their religion”). It encompasses a number of activities that are formal, such as registration of a new congregation, and informal, such as calling pastors on the phone to check on them. The overall goal is to “actively guide religions to adapt to socialist society,” which means to follow the line set by the […]
牧养中国留美中学生 守护他们的心灵
Ministering to Chinese International High Schoolers in the U.S.
[…] 几乎多一倍。更有甚者，中国的高速增长率正持续以加速度上升。(请参下表。) 输送中学生往美升学之最高增长率国家2 排序 输送国 2007 2012 增长率 (%) 1 中国 166 25,880 15,490% 2 塞内加尔 1 69 6, 800% 3 塞尔维亚 2 125 6,150% 4 阿富汗 1 53 5,200% 5 越南 66 2,685 3,968% 以考试为本，极富竞争性的中国教育制度使中学生除了读书外，再无时间做其他任何事情。众多家长将子女送入寄宿学校，不是因为距离遥远，而是要让他们有更多时间做功课。对只偏重拓展知识领域的教育模式不以为然的家长，在企图及早为子女往外国升学作好准备时，就很自然地为他们向国外寻求一些较为全面的教育机会了。 此外，中国对向儿童灌输宗教理念诸多限制，更不容许基督教学校的存在。这些政策增强基督徒父母遣送儿女往海外升学的意愿，因为在国外可入读基督教学校。 挑战 虽然有些学校直接在中国招生，但大多数学生都透过一些中介机构，以选取适合又提供膳宿的美国中学或家庭 (下称寄宿学校或寄宿家庭)。当学生抵达他们个别的校园时，这些中介机构就认为它们已完成任务了。除非有重大事情发生，它们不会再插手相关学生的事务。很多学生的监护人，也只是表格上的名字而已。 在将美国寄宿家庭充当监护人的安排下，文化差异和语言障碍往往成为意料之外的挑战。一所提供大学先修课程、不属任何宗派的基督教中学拥有五十多名外国学生，其中超过三十人来自中国。在一份问卷调查中，多个寄宿家庭表示曾与寄宿学生在沟通及纪律方面遇上困难。而学校因未能全面处理国际学生所面对的种种挑战，只好把学生辅导服务外判。至于学生们——在填写问卷时已在美就读了一个学期——超过一半人表示有怀乡/思家症征状，每日都因文化冲击，及在学校或寄宿家庭的人际关系而挣扎苦恼。三分之二表示学业压力庞大，主因来自 (英语) 语文能力不足，及新教育制度的要求和期望。 当青少年迁离家园，从东方到西方，从熟悉到陌生环境，进入一个新国家时，原本已富挑战性的年轻生命将要承受百上加斤的压力。父母不在身边时的应变能力，经常需要有大学生的成熟度。因此这些中学生常感失落，无助和不安。有些人因而退缩，孤立自己，躲在房间里沉迷在肥皂剧和电子游戏中，不愿参加寄宿家庭及其他社交活动。在学校里，除要应付繁忙的功课外，也末能与美国同学建立较深层的友谊，而这种同侪接纳 (Peer […]
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Reformed Churches and Church/State Relationships
[…] for justice and peace, and because the Christian faith makes us love righteousness, the church should help the government move towards righteousness and justice.3 Only a small number of Reformed churches hold this view, and those churches are mainly Presbyterian churches. They are active in public affairs, caring for the disadvantaged, looking after orphans […]
An Encounter with Spirituality in the Dalian Christian Community
[…] fine arts, and so on. After the day’s training, and especially over the weekends, I explored beyond the campus to find out more about that beautiful, coastal city in the northeastern part of China. One day I was enjoying a leisurely stroll in an off-campus public park when I noticed a group of fifteen […]
Crossing Cultures: Missio Dei and Missionary Formation
[…] right time with just the right words: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great…your very own son shall be your heir… number the stars…so shall your offspring be…And he (Abram) believed the LORD, and he (the LORD) counted it to him (Abram) as righteousness.”6 At just the right […]
Indignation or Creativity?
[…] as populated as China, there would be no grass left to walk on if everyone could just walk across, lie on, or play on the grass in city parks. It may also be noted that China is not the only place where walking on the grass is prohibited; for instance, for those visiting Cambridge […]
Reaching Those Who Aren’t Interested
[…] unique about the PET-Chicago presentations is that the wisdom is drawn from the unshakable foundation of the Bible. After a year of on-line presentations, PET-Chicago witnessed a number of positive developments such as (a) regular monthly meetings on every last Tuesday evening of the month, (b) an average attendance of 70 to over 100 […]
Reverse Culture Shock
[…] activities. We became used to it being a time when the whole country stops for a holiday. But now, because we are white and in Australia, our phones are not filled with celebratory messages and photos nor are we welcomed into the celebration. Here it’s a celebration for the Asians in the community, or […]
Crossing Cultures: Capacity and Insight
[…] very gates into hell would not overpower his kingdom was perhaps spoken in the Grotto of Pan, the king of the underworld, with the Roman summer retreat city of Caesarea Philippi in the background. Peter’s cross-cultural capacity continued to develop as he preached at Pentecost to “devout men from every nation under heaven.” Later […]
Crossing Cultures: Table Manners
[…] time the food we had each added to the common pot. Even the duck intestine tasted good. I wish I could be there in that moderately sized city (about seven million souls) sharing that meal again with my friends whom I have not seen in five years. I have, however, seen a video of […]