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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 […]
My Problem with Progress
<p>I recently went to my local bank to receive an electronic bank transfer. I have been a customer at this bank for nearly 15 years, and so the idea that I have to show up with ID and fill out reams of paperwork just to "accept" a wire transfer into my account does not […]
Chinese Churches Serving Those with Disabilities
[…] Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China (CCC & TSPM), the Amity Foundation, and local churches working together with domestic and international organizations. (The actual number may be far higher than this. According to the 2015 Social Service Ministries Annual Report published by the CCC & TSPM Social Service Department, 6,600 wheelchairs […]
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China’s Burgeoning Cities
[…] of relationships. In office buildings, if conversations have important content, people will meet in hallways or outdoors to talk. The Falungong organizers made extensive use of cell phones and the internet, but the security organs are working overtime to master ways of controlling and monitoring these advanced means of communication. This type of atmosphere […]
The Chinese Internet–by the Numbers
I began working in China in the 1980s, long before the advent of the internet. A letter home took two weeks (at least). An international phone call cost $3.00/minute if I had the time and patience to sit in a dark and dingy telephone office for hours waiting for the call to go through. […]
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Chinese Children at Risk
[…] have laid a foundation and set a precedent. Orphanage management, leery of allowing outside assistance into their sites, can be pointed back to successful teamwork at a number of high- profile Chinese orphanages. More Western and Chinese workers are needed to help meet the needs in the vast rural areas of China. Chinese persons […]
The COVID-Era Preflight Checklist
[…] longer flight time or the total length but the ongoing uncertainty and inability to plan much beyond the next step. Pre-COVID international travel involved finding and booking cheap, convenient flights and making sure our passports and visas were in order. Currently there are only 18 flights per week between China and the United States […]
View From the Wall
A Field Study of “The Church of Almighty God” Cult
[…] groups. In the early l990s, China’s economic transformation resulted in a great migration into the cities resulting in the spread of Christianity to city dwellers. The increasing number of Christians in urban areas became the major source of growth for the total number of Christians. About the same time, Eastern Lightning, in rural Henan, […]
ZGBriefs Newsletter for May 10, 2012
[…] use an e-passport that is lost or stolen,” said Tang Lei, head of e-passport management for Beijing Public Security Bureau’s exit-entry administration. Price of some high-speed train tickets to be cut (May 9, 2012, China Daily) Passengers will soon enjoy discounts when buying business class tickets and premium seats on high-speed trains operating on […]
Chinese Christianity Endures, Part 2
Learning from the 18th-Century Church Under Authoritarian Rule
[…] 1724 proscription are highlighted, revealing some important lessons for China workers striving to serve faithfully in New Era China. First, as Mungello makes quite clear, when the number of ordained expatriate priests and missionaries working in China decreased, Chinese Catholics stepped into the gap. In Sichuan this shift was undeniable: by 1800 there remained […]