The Gospel in China

Slower pace this week, which no one’s complaining about. I was in church services nine nights out of ten, ending last week. Which is a lot of church for people living in a closed country! The Lord really blessed, though, in all those activities – we had many first time visitors, a couple professions of […]

Great baptism service on Sunday. That is to say, all the participants survived. Besides that, a lot of stuff went wrong. But a great number showed up and sixteen were baptized. More than I originally expected for the activity, but less than were actually planning on getting baptized. Some people had tests and couldn’t come, […]

We’re kind of in runaway-train mode right now. Lots of stuff going on this week and next, so we majorly appreciate your prayers. Baptism has been scheduled for tomorrow, though the forecast is calling for rain again (as one member pointed out, though, a rainstorm doesn’t seem like such a problem for a baptismal service […]

There’s a lot to be excited about lately – we’ve had a great couple of weeks with around nine professions of faith. But sometimes when things are moving kinda fast, it’s easy to miss some of the things that God is doing without you. Isn’t it amazing how well God does without our help, our […]

Another weekend in the books. Hanging on for dear life. Had to postpone our baptismal service to next week due to apocalyptic forecasts. I tend to doubt weather forecasts as much as the next guy, but when people are unloading sandbags on the main streets in town before it’s even started to rain, that gets […]

Happy Independence Day – hope you’re doing something to celebrate your American-ness. Like eating a hot dog. Or watching football. Or shooting off fireworks with really dangerous names. Or spreading the Gospel like crazy in your city. Yeah, don’t forget about that last one… let me remind you why..   Yesterday I met with S. […]

This weekend has opened up a new chapter in our work here. Probably the best thing of all is the excitement that has been generated in the church over the creation of a new church for a different university. Tried real hard to reinforce the idea that our church was “giving birth” to another – […]

I don’t normally feel this wasted until Monday morning, but we’ve still got our two Sunday services to go before this weekend’s all done. Thanks to those who prayed for our first service at the new location – really had a great night. Awesome turnout – around sixty, I think – probably around twenty-five first-time […]

We’re about a week and a half into the summer internship, and I think they might try to revolt and murder me soon! They have kept fantastic attitudes, but they’re definitely getting tired. Since we got back from Beijing, they’ve been to church a couple times, a couple hours of language school every morning, a […]

Well, no writing from Beijing, so now I’m even more behind. Our summer team of students is now here with us, and they are really off to a fantastic start. We had a packed two-and-a-half days in Beijing – we fit in all the major tourist sites, plus had several team meetings to prepare for […]