Serving
How Can We Better Prepare People for the Field?
An Interview with Lauren Pinkston
An interview with Lauren Pinkston on preparing people for cross-cultural work.
How Do You Measure Success?
Faith-based organizations have, for too long, adopted a secular business model for gauging their effectiveness. This is the conclusion of Gary Hoag, Scott Rodin and Wesley Wilmer in their short but provocative book, The Choice.
Visas for “Short Term Tasks”
New visa regulations and how they might affect you on your next trip to China.
Is Compassion Conditional?
One of the difficult realities of life in China (or any other developing country) is the daily encounter with beggars.
Insuring Those Who Serve
Facing a medical crisis is difficult at any time. When it happens far from home, family, and familiar medical facilities it can be devastating. Having good, accessible insurance can relieve some of the concern and the financial burden of medical care overseas. One insurance provider that has been serving cross-cultural workers in Asia for years is Talent Trust Consultants (TTc).
The Spiritual Discipline of Perseverance
It is a very tricky thing to assess when it is time to leave a particular field of service or line of ministry.
Post-Conference Reflections on Expatriate Ministry in China
What I learned on my Thai Spring Festival holiday...
Missed Opportunities
The Need for Reflection
One of ChinaSource’s core values is to be a learning organization. Centuries of Christian involvement in the Middle Kingdom provide a wealth of lessons on what has – and has not – served to advance the gospel in China.
Community and Witness
Cross-cultural workers have long debated the merits of devoting more or less time and energy to relations with other expatriates.
Seven Things to Know about Culture Shock
The first time I crossed a cultural boundary; I was but 1 year old! And no, it wasn't my parents whisking me off to some far-off tropical land; it was my family returning to the US after a term of service in Pakistan.