John Cheong holds a PhD from Trinity International University. John is the associate professor of World Religions and Intercultural Studies and the missions course lead at Grand Canyon University in Arizona, USA. He has served five cities, in three mission contexts in Asia and North America among three distinct people groups and two religious groups. He has co-edited and co-authored eight books and published many articles, researching many topics, including globalization, world Christianity, urban missions, and world religions.
Good missiology and partnership with Africans that is more equal and mutually instructive to one another is a partnership that values the voices and contributions of both parties in theological understanding, finance and time, culture and our lives.
Contact between Africa and China occurred from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD through the Silk Route but even earlier, the “Han (202 BCE-220 CE) had been in contact with Africa” through trade.