The Gospel in China

As we work our way closer to Chinese New Year, the city sounds more and more like a war zone. It’s like they’ve got military-grade fireworks going off intermittently throughout the day. And it’s pretty much holiday-marathon season. Last night was a holiday, too, which St., T., and D. suddenly realized after a few hours […]

How about the language? There’s some parts of language learning that I think are like learning to play an instrument. Granted, even when I could only speak English, I spoke more languages than I played instruments, so I’m hardly an expert. But I remember when I was in high school, I had a friend that […]

Since they don’t have any university classes right now, St. and T. and I are meeting together just about everyday to study the Bible together and work on my Chinese. Today we worked through some Psalms together, started on the letters to the churches in Revelation, translated two songs for us to sing in our […]

Though we’re illegal and all that, it’s surprising how seldom we’re reminded of that. It doesn’t feel all that dangerous. Only occasionally does something happen that shakes us up a bit and reminds us that there’s some very real adversaries in our area. Maybe we’re being a little loud in the building, or the doorbell […]

Just when you thought it was safe to stop thinking about China…  After a brief sabbatical that I like to call “January,” it’s about time I start recording some of the stuff that’s going on. The truth is, this is supposed to be the slow time of the year for us. Over the past four […]