Now that God has spread us to all parts of the world, allowing us to contact and interact with all global ethnic groups, how can we not seize this great opportunity to participate and serve in cross-cultural missions?
Through pictures and videos of the affected areas alone, we can deeply sympathize with the difficulties of the victims.
This was the first time we Chinese missionaries in Thailand stood together publicly—it was messy, but it was a breakthrough.
The tapestry of the Chinese diaspora is rapidly evolving in the post-COVID era—and the UK is no exception.
I realized I had a spiritual inheritance I had turned a blind eye to.
Mission is not a straight line—it’s a web. And in today’s globalized world, where people are constantly moving across borders and cultures, Chinese Christians have a unique part to play.
If we truly believe that diaspora is God’s mission strategy for this era, then no generation should be missing, no language should be diminished, and no one’s sense of belonging should be sacrificed.
Expressions of distrust and judgment have loomed so large that some Mandarin-speaking churches and newly established Hong Kong congregations in the same cities avoid any interactions.
On July 9, 2024, approximately 80 Chinese and Korean pastors, ministry leaders, and researchers met in Gaithersburg, MD, to hear about, reflect on, and find applications for the first comprehensive baseline study involving Chinese and Korean churches in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and northern Virginia (DMV) region.
![A family checks out the arrivals and departures at Hong Kong International Airport. The arrival of so many new immigrants [from Hong Kong] in a short period of time has presented both local and Chinese churches in the UK with some unique opportunities and challenges. Zipporah, a student at Singapore Bible College, conducted research into this situation for a class on mission research.](https://media.chinasource.org/uploads/2024/07/BL240716-header-ChinaSource-Chinese-Christianity-Hong-Kong-Chinese-Immigrants-British-National-Overseas-BNO-passport-300x150.jpg)
The arrival of so many new immigrants [from Hong Kong] in a short period of time has presented both local and Chinese churches in the UK with some unique opportunities and challenges. Zipporah, a student at Singapore Bible College, conducted research into this situation for a class on mission research.
![A family checks out the arrivals and departures at Hong Kong International Airport. The arrival of so many new immigrants [from Hong Kong] in a short period of time has presented both local and Chinese churches in the UK with some unique opportunities and challenges. Lau Wood Yin, a student at Singapore Bible College, conducted research into this situation for a class on mission research.](https://media.chinasource.org/uploads/2024/07/RS-Zipporah-header-ChinaSource-Chinese-Christianity-Hong-Kong-Chinese-Immigrants-British-National-Overseas-BNO-passport-300x150.jpg)
The arrival of so many new immigrants [from Hong Kong] in a short period of time has presented both local and Chinese churches in the UK with some unique opportunities and challenges. Zipporah, a student at Singapore Bible College, conducted research into this situation for a class on mission research.
Overseas Chinese churches need to equip immigrant congregations to become people on the move, learn to grow and blend together in mixed groups, achieve cross-cultural missions together, and establish gospel partner relationships with other churches, instead of going it alone.