Resources from 2009
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Biblical Mandates, God’s Calling, and Overseas Workers in China
Is the role of foreign workers in China changing? Yes and no. The biblical mandates remain unchanged: go into all the world; make disciples of all nations; love your neighbor; build my church. These scriptural imperatives also remain unfinished. Is the role of the foreign worker changing? It depends on where the worker is and who he or she relates to.
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Looking Backwards and Forwards
A ChinaSource interview conducted by Kay Danielson with a long-time expatriate Christian working in China.
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The Changing Role of Foreign Workers in China
Do foreigners still have a place in China service? A long-time worker in China provides perspective on the complexities of facing workers in China today.
Sustainability on the Third Pole: Of Water and Carbon; Policies and People
China is undergoing extraordinarily rapid change. Development is occurring at a phenomenal rate; indeed a full transformation of the landscape is taking place, both urban and rurala transformation that we never dreamed possible only a few years ago. In addition, all of this is taking place with an apparent resolve with inherent potential consequencesunintended consequences, perhaps, but no less serious in their social or environmental impactsthat could in fact undermine the very reasons for which the planned changes were initiated in the first place.
What are these changes, policies, actions? They can be summed up under the umbrella of all the development policies, projects and actions related to urbanization, on the one hand, and to several major environmental concerns in China's vast inland, western regions, on the other hand. How can "urbanization" and "environment"often seen as being on opposite ends of a spectrum or continuumbe drawn together and referred to as part of the same paradigm? The answer: through the notion of sustainability.
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Tough Calls
Indigenous Investing
Experience begets guidelines that can help in decisions regarding indigenous investing.
Book Reviews
True Stewardship
Stewards in the Kingdom: A Theology of Life in All Its Fullness by R. Scott Rodin.
Reviewed by Kerry Schottelkorb
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Conserving Water and Wildlife in the Source Areas of China’s Major Rivers
China is developing at a phenomenal rate, and urbanization may be the most obvious feature of China’s human landscape in the 21st century; yet, we must ask the question: At what price such rapid development?