Results for: denomination
Lead Article
Pentecost in China (1)
Origins
[…] church with many supernatural healings including one individual who was raised from the dead during a meeting. The year was 1900. A few years later, the CMA denomination in America took a stand against speaking in tongues and other Pentecostal gifts.2 Since the CMA leaders knew Simpson’s church in Beiping was now Pentecostal, they […]
Supporting Article
Baxiren: Going Global for the Beijing Olympics
I believe that history about China in Brazil is changing. One denomination wrote several pages in their newspaper, circulation 300,000. Another large agency is doing a Latin Conference in Brazil about China. Praise the Lord indeed. An organization has asked me to coordinate a China Challenge conference in Brazil and lead 300 Brazilians to […]
Cross-Cultural Encounters: China and the Reformed Church in America
A Book Review
[…] recent addition to the “Studies in Chinese Christianity” series edited by G. Wright Doyle and Carol Lee Hamrin. Tseng is professor of history at Hope College (the denominational college of the Reformed Church in America). Together with six of her undergraduate students, Tseng and the authors have done a fine job presenting a concise […]
When Counting Is Hard . . . in China (2)
Analysis
[…] big festivals, and so on. Yet, church surveys can reveal the fascinating reality of Chinese churches and help to gain valuable insights in understanding church development. 3. Denomination surveys While a number of local churches have denominational backgrounds (some used to belong to overseas denominations before the TSPM was founded in the 1950s and […]
Meet the Missionaries Who Went to China
ChinaSource Summer School Session 3
[…] a detailed analysis of missionaries from New Zealand to China. In addition to relating stories of leading missionaries, Yuan examines trends in the characteristics of the workers— denomination, sending organization, gender, and marital status. Surprisingly, about a third of the missionaries from New Zealand were single women. The full issue of this CSQ has […]
Expecting Great Things from God
A Chinese Couple’s Testimony
[…] out in June. The phrase “expect great things, attempt great things” is generally attributed to William Carey. See Expect Great Things; Attempt Great Things (wmcarey.edu). A denomination or group of churches that was established in Anyang, Henan in May 1998 which has grown rapidly since then. Several themes marked the Protestant liberal theology […]
Are You Ready for the Diaspora?
[…] missions-sending organizations engage effectively with global migration. Yet all around the globe, missions-sending entities are organizing themselves for diaspora engagement, whether it be a missions agency, church denomination, or ministry network. The NextMove network, a ministry of Frontier Ventures, lives in this organizational space, the missing middle of diaspora missions study. Good organizations are […]
Supporting Article
Challenges in Africa for Chinese Christian Workers
[…] very limiting in terms of duration and cost. The next obvious option is a religious visa, but that assumes that a worker will be sponsored by a denomination or religious organization that is already recognized by the host country. Some countries also require Bible degrees from accredited schools. These are hard to come by […]
The Vital Role of Chinese Women in Evangelism
[…] not provision is being made as we look forward to the future of the Christian Church for the enlargement of operations in the Church for women.” Slowly, denominations began to officially accept formal female church leadership. Historian Dana L. Robert notes that as early as 1871, female missionaries in the American Methodist Episcopal Church […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
[…] and non-believing citizens in religious venues.” It seems hard to imagine preaching an orthodox message without possibly upsetting people of other religions or even people of different denominations, and it certainly leaves leeway in the hands of officials to make such determinations. Isolate Churches from Each Other, Set Internal CCP Oversight, Create Leadership Files […]