The Gospel in China

I had very interesting appointments on Tuesday and Wednesday night. They couldn’t have been more different! I’ll share the stories with you, because I think it will give you a better perspective on the true situation in China. We’ve all met somebody who told us that it’s just “like this” in China, and I know […]

I was in bed last night studying Chinese when I got an awesome phone call from one of our workers! S. is a student that we’ve all been praying for for a couple of weeks. He has been reading the Bible regularly, but he has had some serious questions that have made it difficult for […]

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 […]