Apparently, I’m Already the “Older Generation”
What I brought home from Manila was a harder question: As we gradually gain more experience, more standing, and more power to shape the lives of others, how will we use it?
What I brought home from Manila was a harder question: As we gradually gain more experience, more standing, and more power to shape the lives of others, how will we use it?
The gathering brought not only an enormous amount of content, but also an unusually high level of personal connection—from reuniting with friends I had not seen for years to meeting new ministry partners.
For ChinaSource readers, the story invites us to remember Chinese Christianity not as a simple one-directional story of Western missionaries going to China, but as a deeply interconnected history of receiving, translating, indigenizing, and sending.
Can the Malaysian Chinese Church shift from a community primarily concerned with its own survival to one that participates in the holistic mission of God and seeks the peace of this land?
By looking not only at the church in China itself but also to Christian communities in the global Chinese diaspora, these scholars offer both cautionary tales as well as hopeful visions of what it means to be a witness to the “public God.”
In some ways, the challenge the older generation faced is the same as ours. If you are asked the three questions this report raises, what would be your answers in the 21st century?
The Chinese diaspora in Europe is transitioning from being a “mission field” (the recipient of gospel activity) to a burgeoning “mission force” (the agent of missional change).
This book explores the expansion of what is involved in missions and member care, member care in different regions and different sectors, and staying the course in good practice.
All of a sudden, what started as a random set of strangers in a country I knew nearly nothing about outside of my middle school world history class, became God’s children whom he loved and the most important people in my life.
True formation is an inner checkup, a slow realization that our Heavenly Father has a specific plan and timing for us as we shift toward a life where God is truly first.
Migration is now a global phenomenon. It is estimated that 200 million people live outside their countries of origin, voluntarily or involuntarily.
Chinese Christian Witness is a heartening collection of reflections which cannot—but help—drive onward the movement of God’s Chinese children in response to his command to make him known.