傅邦宁博士是华源协作的创办人，并担任首任总裁，直至 2019 年卸任。
傅邦宁博士曾于 1995 年至 2000 年担任惠顿学院（Wheaton College）中国研究所执行主任；1987 年至 1995 年担任中国福音会（China Ministries International）美国分会创会主任；1985 年至 1986 年则任职于香港中国教会研究中心，负责英文出版物的编辑工作。
傅邦宁博士拥有南加州大学（University of Southern California）政治学硕士及博士学位，以及弥赛亚学院（Messiah College）广播、电视与电影学士学位。
傅邦宁博士长期关注中国发展，对中国教会及中国社会与政治现象有深入研究，并广泛撰文及授课。他著有 China’s Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden，并与 Luis Bush 合著 China’s Next Generation: New China, New Church, New World。
2006 年至 2017 年间，傅邦宁博士与妻子 Jasmine 居住于香港，目前定居美国加州北部。
傅邦宁博士目前负责协调一个宣教士关顾专业人员网络，为从中国差派至海外的宣教士提供支持。他也为其他机构提供咨询，帮助他们理解中国宗教政策所带来的影响。
Decades of overseas involvement in equipping Chinese church leaders have shown that training involves much more than unloading knowledge on a classroom of eager students. In discussions with dozens of experienced trainers over the course of several years, the following have emerged as essential factors for effective training.
Reports of Christians being detained, harassed, fined or otherwise hindered from living out their faith have led many to conclude that persecution is the norm in China. Yet while such incidences do occur, a much larger number of Christians engages seemingly unhindered in a wide variety of activities on a daily basis.
"Shiba Da," the 18th Party Congress, concluded last week with the seven (not nine!) members of the reconstituted Politburo Standing Committee appearing together for the first time on the red carpet in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. Many have asked what implications the Congress has for Christians in China. While it is known that religious policy was on the agenda this year, only time will tell how the closed-door discussions on this topic will play out in terms of actual policy.
A recent and still ongoing ChinaSource survey of Chinese Christians, who have experience in working together with foreign partners, provides insight for those seeking to partner with and serve the church in China.
Editor's Note: This editorial originally appeared in "Passing the Baton" (CS Quarterly, 2012 Autumn).
Amidst the rapid and relentless change taking place in China today, three dynamics in particular are profoundly affecting the role of traditional nonprofit efforts in the country. This raises the question of what sort of entities will allow for sustainable engagement in the future.
With the explosion of private schools in China has come an emerging opportunity for the faith-based community to offer an alternative to the current lopsided system. By taking a holistic approach to education, these schools can prepare students for life, not simply the next exams, and can also equip parents to fulfill their vital role in the academic, emotional, social, and spiritual development of their children. Variations on the traditional home schooling model developed in the West are also being pursued in China by believing parents who choose not to send their children to public schools.
For the fourth straight year in row, the number of college hopefuls taking the national university entrance exam, or gaokao, has dropped. Analysts trace the decline to a corresponding drop in the number of children born at the beginning of the last decade due to China's one-child policy. However, the decrease also suggests two realities facing young people in China today.
As of this year, China officially has more people living in cities than in the countryside. Returning recently to one of China's sprawling megacities, I was again brought face to face with the human reality underlying the most massive migration in the history of the world.
I sat across from a Chinese Christian in the lobby of a Beijing hotel as he rearranged the cups and plates on the coffee table between us. Having cleared a space at the center of the table, he pointed to a cup sitting at the edge, near one corner.
China's comeback as a world power is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary stories of our time.
Equally extraordinary is the comeback of China's church. Both numerically and in terms of its growing influence in society, the church has experienced phenomenal growth during the past three decades.
The church in China is growing and diverse, but its story cannot be reduced to a single statistic or label. Brent Fulton explains why the facts are real, yet often more complicated than they first appear.