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The Chinese Church Does Missions (2) Beyond China
ChinaSource Summer School Session 5
In this fifth and final session of ChinaSource summer school, we turn toward the Chinese believers who are called to go out and share the gospel cross-culturally. While they may draw on the methods and missiology of Western workers, they also must face unique challenges and develop unique answers and methods to their circumstances. […]
Social Service Ministry in China
While social service has long been part of missionary work in mainland China, today a host of different factors are driving Chinese Christians to explore for themselves the place of humanitarian concerns within gospel ministry. For a growing number of local Christians, loving one’s neighbor through acts of service is rapidly becoming an indispensable […]
Supporting Article
Keys to Effective Service in China
<p>Four essentials for effective service in China.</p>
20 Things a New Chinese Pastor Needs to Learn About Ministry
[…] diligently study it. Become an expert in your territory. Realize we have our limits and that all the things we do have limits. Model Paul's spirit of "But one thing I do." Finish one thing and be a blessing to many people. Original article: 初入工场的传道人必须认清20个事实 (Chen Fengsheng) Image credit: Calligraphy pen by Alejandro Mallea via Flickr.
Editorials
Effective China Service in the Era of WTO
[…] greater openness and prosperity, but it is also accentuating social inequality and exacerbating economic problems. Both the positive and negative consequences of WTO bring new opportunities for service. No one can predict what these opportunities may look like in five or ten years. However, recent discussions among ministry leaders elicited a number of “best […]
China’s Mission Movement: A Call to Incarnation
Today the forces of urbanization have brought Han Chinese believers face-to-face with a diverse range of cultures, from international students and business people to members of the hundreds of ethnic groups resident within China’s borders.
It Starts with “Nǐ Hǎo”
Cross-Cultural Ministry in the Most Unexpected Place
[…] mind began to wander a bit. This was an unexpected and unplanned development in my ministry journey. Working at a fast-food restaurant—or “quick-service,” as they prefer to call it—was not the usual ministry (or vocational) journey for someone with a PhD in international development and two master’s degrees in theology and education. I was […]
China’s NGO Policy: Iron Cage or Ladder to Success?
The implementation of the domestic Charity Law in 2016 and the Overseas NGO Law in 2017 marked the end of an era in social service in China. Accustomed to working in a large grey area in which much was allowed but little was legally defined, local and foreign-run nonprofit organizations were suddenly faced with […]
Which Chinese Bible Should I Recommend People Read?
[…] from around the world. (Bible Gateway, 2016) The CNV is one of the most popular versions of the Bible in China. Chinese Contemporary Bible, 当代圣经, CCB Also called the Chinese Living Bible. Translated by the International Bible Society of Colorado Springs. Translated from the original languages and designed for a general audience with a […]
A Forgotten People
[…] exacts a high price. Yet no higher price has ever been paid than that which was paid by Christ to welcome into his kingdom all who would call upon his name. To his followers he gives this example, along with the promise that, “whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers […]