The Gospel in China

Last night, we had our first Christian Leaders Meeting here in our home. The goal of this meeting is to ground new converts with formal teaching and practical training in introducing their friends to Jesus. We have seen several students accept Christ now, and several others besides them are reading their Bibles everyday. We really […]

We are not alone… there are Others. There are a couple of English corners in town that we attend regularly. An English corner usually isn’t a corner at all, it’s a room or a hall or a porch on a college campus that students meet to practice their English. These are fantastic opportunities to meet […]

A. has been one of our most exciting relationships we’ve made since coming to Harbin. I talked to him after our first Bible study, and, after talking about sin and salvation, he really wanted to know what he would have to do to become a Christian. He asked me how, repeated it back to me […]

Last night, we had our fourth Bible study. I wish I could take the time to write down everything that is going on here. There’s just too little time for me to write it, and I’m sure too little time for you to read it! But it is absolutely amazing to see God work every […]

After Thursday’s Bible study, I saw V. again at an activity on Saturday. As much as he disagrees with us, he apparently has a desire to spend time with us. V. just graduated from college, and next semester he will start his post-graduate work. As I talked about in my last post, he had more […]

V. came to our Bible study last Thursday. He was hardly receptive, blasting our newest worker with dozens of ridiculous questions, then wasting half an hour of my time with his dodging. The contentious always dodge. They avoid the real issue, the dark condition of their heart and the hope of eternal life in Christ, […]

Over the past couple of months, we’ve tried our best to develop as many evangelistic relationships with university students as possible. Most of our evangelism has also been exploration, as we try to learn the best ways to present the Gospel to someone who has been raised in a different culture, a different value set, […]

Seven wonderful hours of language school lie before me today… but it has been very exciting to see our communicating ability grow. Mandarin has proven to be extremely difficult, but hardly impossible. The sentence structure is what is really holding back my speaking. We just say things differently in English. So there’s barely any direct […]

It has been unbelievable to witness the changes in the lives of new believers. Right now my wife is text-messaging a girl who is trying to walk through a rainstorm to study the Bible tonight with my wife. She’s a student at a university in this city, and she accepted Jesus as her Savior after […]

God has let us see some amazing things these past few weeks. My wife and I have been living here in mainland China for a little while now, as we learn the Mandarin language to finalize our preparations for our life-work of declaring the Gospel to the people of China. Though our primary goal is […]