The Gospel in China

The weekend isn’t off to the best start. A new guy came to our Friday night class, which was unexpected, considering he’s been more withdrawn this semester. But glad to have him. Afterwards he wanted to have a word with me. He had some complaints, which are constantly fueled by his friend who I’ve mentioned […]

After studying with the guys yesterday, we went over to their campus’ cafeteria to eat dinner. T. loaded up the table with a ton of food, way more than we could possibly eat (which is pretty much what they do here anytime they entertain guests). Also joining us was D., who came by the building […]

That was a tiring evening – but the Lord really blessed! We had a lot of repeats, but both services were full. We were somewhere in the high 50s, I think. It is absolutely ridiculous to me that we have to have two services just to fit that many people, but that’s our reality. The […]

Easter morning. Chinese gets a point for its name for the holiday: “Resurrection Holiday.” Which they observe about as much as Americans celebrate Boxing Day. So today we’re hoping we can start a tradition of celebration among believers – we want to show them today is a special memorial. Unfortunately, we don’t really get any […]

I read a little book yesterday called, “The Basic Purpose of Following the Buddha.” Buddhism isn’t as hip and groovy here as you might think. Most of the temples are tourist sites, and I think I’ve only seen monks once or twice (once at the airport). But there are some devout – mostly older people, […]

S., T., and me spend a lot of time every week talking about our church, studying the Bible model for the church, and making plans to try to bring those two pictures a little closer together. For example, they’re both preaching next Sunday, so yesterday we spent about half our time working on their messages […]

Well, I’m doing a terrible job of keeping up on blog entries. It’s partly because we’re busier now, since we’re up and running again now that winter break is over. And partly because not a lot of new “worth writing about” stuff has happened lately (more on that tomorrow, maybe). I thought the Lord really […]

Since S. is going to be giving up his major at school, he’s moving into the extra room at the church building. We got it mostly set up for him on Monday – we’ve got students coming this summer to work with us, and we’ll need to add a few more beds at that time. […]

Pretty good service last night – not sure how many we had, but we were close to full. Lots of first-time visitors. We’re still in “first-class” seating mode, and we can still add more chairs to make our “economy” seating arrangement before we go back to two services. I’d like to go back to two […]

Turned out to be a pretty fun week, even though I had to go to school twice. It’s actually not that bad – characters are naturally more fun to study than the spoken language, which is partly why most people focus on it. It’s not too hard so far, I’ve got a lot of familiarity […]