A Church in Motion
Today, the Chinese church in North America is serving people on the move while learning how to remain faithful in a world that is also in motion.
Explore the experiences of Chinese communities and churches around the world, including migration, identity, belonging, cross-cultural ministry, and collaboration across borders.
Today, the Chinese church in North America is serving people on the move while learning how to remain faithful in a world that is also in motion.
The thought patterns formed by long-term, deeply embedded atheistic education and scientism remain a major epistemological threshold that Chinese diaspora Christians must cross in evangelism, as well as a stronghold that apologetics must address.
Diaspora is not a condition to be solved. It is a place to be inhabited.
Now that God has spread us to all parts of the world, allowing us to contact and interact with all global ethnic groups, how can we not seize this great opportunity to participate and serve in cross-cultural missions?
Through pictures and videos of the affected areas alone, we can deeply sympathize with the difficulties of the victims.
This was the first time we Chinese missionaries in Thailand stood together publicly—it was messy, but it was a breakthrough.
The tapestry of the Chinese diaspora is rapidly evolving in the post-COVID era—and the UK is no exception.
I realized I had a spiritual inheritance I had turned a blind eye to.
Mission is not a straight line—it’s a web. And in today’s globalized world, where people are constantly moving across borders and cultures, Chinese Christians have a unique part to play.
If we truly believe that diaspora is God’s mission strategy for this era, then no generation should be missing, no language should be diminished, and no one’s sense of belonging should be sacrificed.
Expressions of distrust and judgment have loomed so large that some Mandarin-speaking churches and newly established Hong Kong congregations in the same cities avoid any interactions.
On July 9, 2024, approximately 80 Chinese and Korean pastors, ministry leaders, and researchers met in Gaithersburg, MD, to hear about, reflect on, and find applications for the first comprehensive baseline study involving Chinese and Korean churches in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and northern Virginia (DMV) region.