An Accessible Cross-Cultural Missions Textbook for the Chinese Context
This book will undoubtedly become one of the top textbook choices for Chinese mission training and courses.
This book will undoubtedly become one of the top textbook choices for Chinese mission training and courses.
The journey outward to the ends of the earth must also include preparation for the inward journey.
Migration is now a global phenomenon. It is estimated that 200 million people live outside their countries of origin, voluntarily or involuntarily.
As conflict intensifies across the Middle East, this is a moment for watchful prayer—for leaders, for civilians, and for Chinese Christians serving in the region.
As the nations gather in Taiwan through study and work, churches are called to welcome, serve, and partner across cultures in this pivotal missional moment.
During the month of November, we will highlight unreached people groups that live in East Asia.
Young people need a community where faith and real life intersect in meaningful ways, rather than simply attending traditional worship services.
Guangxiao Church and Zion Church, two of Guangzhou’s leading and historical churches, are pioneering youth-focused outreach efforts to counter the decline in youth attendance. To attract them to the church, the two churches offer various youth-centered activities, including a "Faith Pharmacy," comic exhibitions, and storytelling sessions.
Will you join us in praying for the unreached peoples? Together, let us commit to being part of God’s mission to make disciples of all nations and to plant healthy churches that will reproduce to surrounding villages and across generations.
Our hope and prayer is that the keynote speaker, Scott Shaum, and the various workshops will help all of us to pause, hear, reflect, and live God’s call in our lives for the long haul, in sustainable and kingdom service for the glory of God!
This article is a follow-up to a series of articles written by this author on Chinese medical missionary sending in 2017, published by ChinaSource. Reflections expressed herein grow out of the successes, setbacks, and surprises encountered after the implementation of many of the ideas conveyed in that series of 13 articles.
China’s minority groups, particularly those such as the Yi (彞, approximately 8 million strong), have been marginalized for years. This region has been designated as an “extremely impoverished” area dependent on outside resources. However, this aid often remains superficial and fails to address the root causes of the problem.