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Understanding the Times to Facilitate Chinese Missionary Sending
Christians of today need to hold the Bible in one hand and the daily newspaper in the other. Understanding both, with attention to the thrust of meaning of each, Christians can be a bridge facilitating God’s purposes in today’s world.
Resistance to Chinese Missionary Sending and Strategies to Defuse Resistance
The Chinese church passionately desires participation in missionary sending. In this article, several of the key sources of resistance to Chinese missionary sending are surveyed and strategies to defuse this resistance are considered.
Looking Back on an Emerging Missions Movement
Understanding “Back to Jerusalem,” one of the roots of today’s missions movement from China.
International Students in China–The Road Ahead?
ISM in China is commanded by God, has encouraging historical precedents, and makes sense strategically. So, who will do it?
Re-balancing the Seesaw
Can Chinese missionary-sending organizations help re-balance the seesaw and increase the effectiveness and sustainability of cross-cultural missionaries from China?
9 Best Practices for a Chinese Missionary Sending Organization
The Chinese church passionately desires participation in missionary sending. Through a survey of the mission sending literature and field research with Chinese missionaries, nine best practices for Chinese mission sending are proposed that may facilitate long-term Chinese missionary sustainability.
Majority World Missions and Chinese Missions
Where will the Chinese missions effort fall on the spectrum of long-term missions-sending success?
International Students in China—an Opportunity?
My Pakistani friend asked, “May I visit your church?” I welcomed him along. He listened to a Bible talk in English, read the Urdu text on my iPhone, and asked me questions in Chinese.
Lahu Christians Celebrate Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is just around the corner for Americans, but for one minority tribe in China—the Christians of the Lahu people in Yunnan province—Thanksgiving came when with the harvest of their first fall crops.
See One, Do One, Teach One
“See one. Do one. Teach one.” A pathway to developing mission-sending capacity in China?
Toward the Development of Mission-Sending Organization in China
The Chinese church passionately desires participation in missionary sending. Mission sending organization musters the intentionality needed to sustain long-term missionary sending. In this article, I present a three pronged approach to Chinese mission sending organization development.