A BIG MISSION for the whole of Asia » China

Our ways are not His ways (1)

Missionary Guest Contributor — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:16:51 +0000

The shock of everything is now starting to sink in and the dust is starting to settle some.

The ultrasound specialist, after much trying, was finally able to see some of our unborn baby’s face and mouth and confirmed the cleft lip which is on the right side. She also said that she saw a gap

My first ‘REAL’ China experience (2)

Missionary Guest Contributor — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:23:13 +0000

There was the old grandma who was being cared for by her daughter and son. One day as I was reading my Bible, the daughter asked me about it and I told her what I was reading. She was excited and told me that she had one too and was a part of God’s family.

My first ‘REAL’ China experience (1)

Missionary Guest Contributor — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:17:10 +0000

A few months ago I was thinking to myself, “I don’t have any real China stories.” A ‘China’ story is the kind that can only happen to you in China (of course) but really sets your time here apart from anything else you’ve experienced in your life; it’s something that you think, “I’ve never experienced

A letter of thanks from an English camp student

Xi-le — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:19:25 +0000

To whom that helped me,

I am writing this letter to show my appreciation to all of you who helped me. Thank you so much for helping me to come to the 2009 English Summer Camp! Without your help, I would not be so happy as I am now!

I had been wanting to come to this

Asian relation: Red’s funeral (2)

Buddy — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:23:59 +0000

Red’s mother, who was about 25 yards away, looked up, saw the three of us foreign teachers, walked straight over to us, and, with the help of a dependable translator, said:

“Thank you for bringing Red a Bible. She read it every morning and prayed.”

What?! We were shocked, hopeful, speechless; but I had to

Asian relation: Red’s funeral (1)

Buddy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:23:04 +0000

Rain was appropriately falling as the train screeched to a halt at the Railway Station on Saturday evening after a 30-hour journey. That’s a long time on a train. Time to think. Time to read. Time to sleep. Time to think some more. Time to think about my student Red, about her cheerfulness in class,

My China dream – the twists and turns (of setting up a bookshop)

Chinaman — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:38:23 +0000

The twists and turns potentially ingredients for a nightmare proved again “All things work together for good…” in His Kingdom.

Coming from a highly regulated country where every contract is properly signed and executed to a country where a contract is not worth the paper it is written on, I almost freaked out. Everything was verbal

Asian relation: special request Red (2)

Buddy — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:12:04 +0000

Since returning to teach in another city in China I have stayed in communication with her, but over the last several weeks it has decreased. I sent her text messages and did not receive a reply. So I text messaged her classmate to ask about her. She replied by giving me Red’s number. I tried

Asian relation: special request Red (1)

Buddy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:19:25 +0000

Some updates are enjoyable to write. Others are not. This is one of those un-enjoyable updates. And I’m not really even sure how to write an update like this. I’ve never written one quite like it.

From 2007-2008 I taught a wonderful bunch of nursing students in a city in China. They introduced me to China.

Gun EC

Missionary Guest Contributor — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:54:43 +0000

Back when I was a celebrity in American churches—about to move to Communist China to be a Missionary—I tried to anticipate what ministry in China would look like. I remember telling a youth group that I expected it to be a good place to find out what it really means to be a Christian—that reading