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Supporting Article
Back to the Fold
Rediscovering Faith and Community for Chinese Returnees
In truth, it is always easier to run away than to face challenges but fleeing from difficulties is not God's will. I thank the Lord for protecting and keeping me in my work and in helping me find a church, and for giving me confidence and joy to rebuild my life.
Supporting Article
Chinese Christian Returnees in Late Qing Dynasty and Early Republic
Contributions and Difficulties
It is important for returnee Christians to ask God for wisdom as they follow Peter’s admonition to early Christians who were struggling: “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.”
Book Reviews
Preparing Returnees to Go Home Well
A Review of the Returnee Handbook for Chinese Christians
We know that our love for God, for his kingdom in China, and for returning Chinese Christians demands that we equip our returnees with all that they need to remain faithful to Jesus.
ChinaSource Perspective
Returning from a Sojourn
May we welcome [Chinese international students], love them, teach them about Jesus, and disciple those who believe. May we prepare them well to return and may the churches in China prepare well to receive them.
Resource Corner
A Reading Roundup for Returnees
Check out the books in the Resource Corner to help the returnees and returnee ministries in your life.
Like Never Before
We give all glory to God that so many new, next-generation, and established Chinese-led organizations and ministries are inviting ChinaSource to learn and partner with them, welcoming us to be a platform from which they choose to tell their story to the English-speaking church around the world.
Engaging Gen Z Anew
Guangzhou Churches Pioneering Youth Ministry Events
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.
Faith Passed Down, Faith Made Personal
A Gen-Z Believer’s Spiritual Journey
I was born in a Christian family and my grandma is a faithful Christian. She likes reading the Bible in the afternoon even though she only has a primary school education. At that age, I couldn’t understand what this meant to me, but seeds of faith were planted in my heart though I didn’t know it yet.
Cultural Harmony and Gospel Fidelity
Suggestions to the Chinese House Church
Chinese house churches must deliberate on how to be genuinely Chinese and truly Christian. Both the concepts that are overemphasized cause distortion. It takes constant navigating to be “in the culture but not of it.” Authentic Chinese Christianity will result from keeping both ideas in healthy tension as Chinese house churches negotiate between indigenizing and acting as pilgrim communities.