The Gospel in China

Weekend is in full swing. Yesterday me and the guys worked on Job for a couple of hours. And I thought that book was hard to understand in English! But the class is really lots of fun. Except for the fact that it is a real reminder of how far I have yet to go […]

The bad thing about relying on taxis is that sometimes they go on strike. Like yesterday. Guess the drivers thought the gas prices were unsatisfactory, so they took a day to prove their point. I wish they would have waited until summer time. A strike about quadruples your “waiting for a taxi” time, and it’s […]

Not long after I started this blog, I wrote about “the Others” in our city. We’re hardly alone as people that are hoping to influence this city for Christ. This particular group, like many in China, are English teachers without any underground ministry, but with an extra portion of the fear that often limits them. […]

Our Sunday night’s leaders meeting was about the best one we’ve ever had. As I’ve written about, I’ve been trying to think of more ways to get them involved before we actually start church services, and this week there were a few things that I honestly needed their help in. We’re starting a new series […]

Last night’s Bible study seemed to have quite a few more girls than guys. It kind of frustrates me that ministry seems to have a natural tendency to slip this way, but I think there’s some good signs that it’s a temporary trend. First of all, the number of students with some other Christian-ish experience […]

The second girls Bible study and a couple girls from the first spent about seven hours at the Bible study house today. After their weekly Bible study, my wife taught them how to crochet, and they spent the next six hours making scarves. This is part of some big Christmas project they’re working on for […]

Me and St. were talking today about the end of the semester and upcoming tests. He has said that he wants to quit next semester and study to become a pastor full-time. He’s working toward that, anyway, while continuing to study engineering. He started laughing about the tests, though, and told me that he’d probably […]

Last night after I finished writing in my blog, I tried to find my cell phone and go to bed. But my cell phone was nowhere to be found. So I tried to call it from the house phone and some Chinese guy answered the phone. I was lucky enough to leave it in a […]

Jealous. Scared. Desperate. That’s about how I feel lately when I spend time with our leaders. Several of them have grown enough in their faith to sense the real need to be in church. So they go to churches. All kinds of them. As I’ve said, one ends up in a Jehovah’s Witness study. They […]

Hot crowd tonight. Wow. That was rough. Big first service, and they were feisty. 79 altogether tonight. I did a quick introduction and kicked it over to St., who decided to teach about sin. Unfortunately for him, he tried to fit about forty minutes of teaching on sin and salvation into ten minutes. Which leads […]