Below are the current updates from one of our home-grown missionaries, Jacob and Stephanie Taube, in China:
The Gospel in NE China (Personal Site):
- Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:15:09 +0000: Underground Church Q&A - The Gospel in NE China
Okay, so these are some commonly asked questions about underground churches (or family churches as they call them here) in China, so I hope these answers will be informative… 1. Why are underground churches needed? In China, all religious organizations are required to be registered with the government. There are state-sponsored churches (most big cities [...] - Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:37:20 +0000: Short Term to Long Term - The Gospel in NE China
I hope every believer has an opportunity to go on a mission trip. They are great tools for increasing a Christian’s understanding and burden for the unreached. And the best missions trips will bring you face-to-face with a tough question: does God want me to be a full-time missionary? Here’s some of the things that [...] - Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:29:04 +0000: Have You Considered It? - The Gospel in NE China
One of the Chinese guys training with us here brought a good message this past Wednesday night church service about the need for Christians to become laborers in God’s harvest. Afterward I talked to one of the young guys that is a regular attender. He was putting on his shoes (we use house shoes at [...] - Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:05:36 +0000: A Survey of Village Churches - The Gospel in NE China
Here’s what last Friday looked like: Rendezvous at the church at 7am Split into three teams in three different vehicles Drive out of the city in three different directions (north, east, and south) Stopping in little villages all over the place Asking if where we could find some believers Hunting down the believers and asking [...] - Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:34:37 +0000: Thanks to Grace Baptist - The Gospel in NE China
Just wanted to write a note to my home church, Grace Baptist of Middletown, for giving in a big way to our chair project. Your gift was enough to buy about 75% of the chairs needed for the new church building. The church here was also able to pay the remainder with their own money, [...]
The Gospel in China (Ministry Site):
- Wed, 09 May 2012 14:27:03 +0000: Ecclesioporosis - The Gospel in China
Recent generations of overseas Christian workers, especially in ‘frontier’ mission fields, have been plagued by a brittle bone ecclesiology – a lack of confidence in the church to effect change in the world. Instead, many missionaries seem to believe in a fragile, fractured church that is unable to support the weight of the body of [...]
- Wed, 02 May 2012 00:18:25 +0000: 7 Reasons to Get to the Mission Field Before You’re 30 - The Gospel in China
1. Languages are hard to learn It is very rare to meet a missionary who learned another language later on in life. A foreign language is not an opponent you want to underestimate. It will handicap you for the rest of your ministry unless you take it down early. Facing the challenges of learning a [...]
- Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:32:07 +0000: The Li Bo Perspective #3 - The Gospel in China
Last bit about the Chinese Three-Self Church and whether or not it is wise for missionaries to work in coordination with them. The question that remains to be considered is: is there anything that a missionary is compelled to do that is prohibited by the Three-Self Church? Of course ‘compelled‘ is a tricky word. But [...]
- Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:54:43 +0000: Thrill-Seekers - The Gospel in China
There’s a certain way to market the Great Commission that strikes a chord with bored twenty-somethings who are tired of college classes or are not looking forward to entering the rat race. And it goes something like… ‘Wouldn’t you like to do something meaningful with your life? Don’t waste your life in a cubicle when [...]
- Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:17:09 +0000: The Li Bo Perspective #2 - The Gospel in China
In review, we’re talking about the case for the Three-Self Church, the Chinese government-sponsored Christian congregations. Li Bo is just one of many voices in China that denounce the work of missionaries who plant unregistered churches and maintain that the rightful avenue for ministry is via the government church. But I am just one of [...]
