As you may know, the presentation by Global Partners in Hope had an impressive attendance. We hope you found the presentation by Ian Vickers and Shaun Bao informative and interesting. It never ceases to amaze me to hear about the stunning changes that God is orchestrating in the hearts of high Communist government officials to move them to welcome Christianity into China. It is truly a privilege to be a small part of what our Lord is doing there.
Many were touched by some of the details of Shaun Bao’s personal story regarding his life and family.
GPiH has just opened another avenue to support the Chinese Christian movement. Countless new house churches are being formed in the 20 to 40 age groups, the fastest growing Christian segment in urban China. Many pastors of these churches have little or nor seminary training. As you heard Thursday evening, GPiH is starting a new college-level training course conducted by Crown College for House Church pastors. The cost is just $875 to train one pastor.
If you are interested in more information about Global Partners in Hope or would like to make a donation to them, go to their website http://globalpartnersinhope.com
Please pray for our EFCC – GPiH mission team going to Beijing September 1-14. Team members are: John and Mary Waring, Larry and Gayle Sharp, Barbara Pillsbury, and Nancy Sloan.
With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Thessalonians 1:11,12
Thank you for your prayers!
God Bless you.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Excitement Grows
What an inspirational meeting we had with Shaun Bao and Ian Vickers last week. These two men of God are looking (along with this team) to the amazing things God will do in China and is doing even now.
Shaun Bao's testimony was moving and dramatic as he detailed his journey of faith to the captive audience.
Ian Vickers, CEO of Global Partners in Hope spoke of his desire to come along side of Shaun Bao in an effort to expand on growth of spreading the Gospel in China. Shaun is the
There is excitement growing each day within our team as the time draws closer.
Shaun Bao's testimony was moving and dramatic as he detailed his journey of faith to the captive audience.
Ian Vickers, CEO of Global Partners in Hope spoke of his desire to come along side of Shaun Bao in an effort to expand on growth of spreading the Gospel in China. Shaun is the
There is excitement growing each day within our team as the time draws closer.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Shaun Bao - What An Exciting Story - Join Us August 5th to Hear More!
Finding Life’s Purpose - Shaun Bao
He left China as a member of the royal family. He returned as ambassador for the King of Kings.
He was born into the royal family of China—a 300-yearold dynasty. But the Chinese Communist Cultural Revolution in 1966 changed everything.
As a young man Shaun was selected by Mao Tse-tung’s wife to become a film star. He starred in the first movie to be shown in China after the revolution. His father was unaware Shaun had been selected and saw a poster on the street with Shaun’s photo on it. He was furious and told Shaun that members of the royal family were not to become actors
Shaun starred in 13 movies in eight years. He had fame, position, money and girls. But despite all this, he says, he “always felt very thirsty and hollow.” He eventually prayed, “Jesus if you are the way, show me. I have no other way to go.” He confessed his wrongdoing.
He says, “Then the world was so beautiful. Instead of feeling like a nobody, I felt like somebody.”
After his baptism, he started conducting mission trips, taking Bibles to China. People in China were so excited to have their own Bible. He moved back to China and started a house church. One of his early converts, Sarah, became his wife.
When his house church grew to more than 200 people, he realized they would have to expand. He now has 12 house churches and people from these house churches are going to other countries around the world as missionaries.
In China, it is still illegal to buy a Bible, so Shaun has discovered a way to overcome this obstacle. Shaun has published a biography on Jesus Christ: The Life of Jesus. He says that there are biographies for sale on many other famous people. At first, publishers refused to publish the book, telling him it was too dangerous to do so. But Shaun was persistent and finally found a publisher.
His book has now been endorsed by the Chinese government and is legal to sell and distribute. Shaun says “Please pray for us. . . . I believe China will be the biggest Christian nation in the world; we already have 100 million Christians.”
Pastor Shaun Bao is now the Executive Director of the China Harmony & Unity Center in Beijing.
He left China as a member of the royal family. He returned as ambassador for the King of Kings.
He was born into the royal family of China—a 300-yearold dynasty. But the Chinese Communist Cultural Revolution in 1966 changed everything.
As a young man Shaun was selected by Mao Tse-tung’s wife to become a film star. He starred in the first movie to be shown in China after the revolution. His father was unaware Shaun had been selected and saw a poster on the street with Shaun’s photo on it. He was furious and told Shaun that members of the royal family were not to become actors
Shaun starred in 13 movies in eight years. He had fame, position, money and girls. But despite all this, he says, he “always felt very thirsty and hollow.” He eventually prayed, “Jesus if you are the way, show me. I have no other way to go.” He confessed his wrongdoing.
He says, “Then the world was so beautiful. Instead of feeling like a nobody, I felt like somebody.”
After his baptism, he started conducting mission trips, taking Bibles to China. People in China were so excited to have their own Bible. He moved back to China and started a house church. One of his early converts, Sarah, became his wife.
When his house church grew to more than 200 people, he realized they would have to expand. He now has 12 house churches and people from these house churches are going to other countries around the world as missionaries.
In China, it is still illegal to buy a Bible, so Shaun has discovered a way to overcome this obstacle. Shaun has published a biography on Jesus Christ: The Life of Jesus. He says that there are biographies for sale on many other famous people. At first, publishers refused to publish the book, telling him it was too dangerous to do so. But Shaun was persistent and finally found a publisher.
His book has now been endorsed by the Chinese government and is legal to sell and distribute. Shaun says “Please pray for us. . . . I believe China will be the biggest Christian nation in the world; we already have 100 million Christians.”
Pastor Shaun Bao is now the Executive Director of the China Harmony & Unity Center in Beijing.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
China Reception
There is great interest and excitement about learning what fantastic things God is doing in China today! What started out as a small gathering has blossomed into a presentation reception that has outgrown our home. The Global Partners in Hope presentation will be moved to the lovely new Holy Grounds Cafe at EFCC, this Thursday, August 5 at 7:00 p.m.
Ian Vickers of Global Partners in Hope, and Shaun and Sarah Bao from Beijing will talk about the strategic importance of GPiH's work being done in China. God has moved the hearts of high level Chinese government officials to invite GPiH to openly teach about Christianity in community centers in China. It was a privilege to be a small part of this teaching last March and John and I will be going back to Beijing in September with a team from EFCC.
You will have an opportunity to hear Shaun Bao relate his fascinating story about his royal family and their persecution by the Communists. He will tell us about his life as a movie star and of leaving China as a member of the royal family and returning as ambassador for the King of Kings. Shaun is a dynamic servant of the Lord.
Feel free to invite anyone you think might be interested in hearing more about Christianity in China. A freewill offering to support GPiH will be taken.
Please let us know if you are coming so that there will be plenty of delicious desserts for you and your guests.
Mary and John Waring
Ian Vickers of Global Partners in Hope, and Shaun and Sarah Bao from Beijing will talk about the strategic importance of GPiH's work being done in China. God has moved the hearts of high level Chinese government officials to invite GPiH to openly teach about Christianity in community centers in China. It was a privilege to be a small part of this teaching last March and John and I will be going back to Beijing in September with a team from EFCC.
You will have an opportunity to hear Shaun Bao relate his fascinating story about his royal family and their persecution by the Communists. He will tell us about his life as a movie star and of leaving China as a member of the royal family and returning as ambassador for the King of Kings. Shaun is a dynamic servant of the Lord.
Feel free to invite anyone you think might be interested in hearing more about Christianity in China. A freewill offering to support GPiH will be taken.
Please let us know if you are coming so that there will be plenty of delicious desserts for you and your guests.
Mary and John Waring
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Jesus, I am Resting, Resting
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in Me. John 15: 4
Jesus, I am Resting, Resting...this hymn, written by an Irish woman named Jean Sophia Pigott, became the favorite hymn of J. Hudson Taylor, the great missionary to China. Often, taking a break from his crushing load of work, Hudson would sit at his little reed organ and sing this hymn. It perfectly expressed his greatest life lesson.
Hudson had envisioned a missionary task greater than any since the days of Paul - the evangelization of China. He had established the China Inland Mission in 1865, but it almost proved his undoing. Overwhelmed by worry, work and responsibility, he was near a breakdown when he received a letter from a fellow missionary, John McCarthy. In it, McCarthy spoke from John 15 about abiding in Christ. "Abiding, not striving or struggling," wrote McCarthy, "looking off unto Him; trusting Him for present power...this is not new, and yet 'tis new to me...Christ literally all seems to me now the power, the only power for service; the only ground for unchanging joy."
As Hudson read this letter at his mission station in Chin-kiang on Saturday, September 4, 1869, his eyes were opened. "As I read," he recalled, "I saw it all, I looked to Jesus, and when I saw, oh how the joy flowed!"
Writing to his sister in England, he said: "As to work, mine was never so plentiful, so responsible, or so difficult; but the weight and strain are all gone. The last or more has been perhaps the happiest of my life, and I long to tell you a little of what the Lord has done for my soul. When the agony of soul was at its height, a sentence in a letter from dear McCarthy was used to remove the scales from my eyes, and the Spirit of God revealed the truth of our oneness with Jesus as I had never known it before."
McCarthy, who had been much exercised by the same sense of failure, but saw the light before I did, wrote: "But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith but by resting on the Faithful One."
"As I read, I saw it all!...As I thought of the Vine and the branches, what light the blessed Spirit poured into my soul!"
The main method of witness in China today is the personal lifestyle and behavior of Christians, accompanied by their proclamations of the Gospel, often at great personal risk.
Jesus, I am Resting, Resting...this hymn, written by an Irish woman named Jean Sophia Pigott, became the favorite hymn of J. Hudson Taylor, the great missionary to China. Often, taking a break from his crushing load of work, Hudson would sit at his little reed organ and sing this hymn. It perfectly expressed his greatest life lesson.
Hudson had envisioned a missionary task greater than any since the days of Paul - the evangelization of China. He had established the China Inland Mission in 1865, but it almost proved his undoing. Overwhelmed by worry, work and responsibility, he was near a breakdown when he received a letter from a fellow missionary, John McCarthy. In it, McCarthy spoke from John 15 about abiding in Christ. "Abiding, not striving or struggling," wrote McCarthy, "looking off unto Him; trusting Him for present power...this is not new, and yet 'tis new to me...Christ literally all seems to me now the power, the only power for service; the only ground for unchanging joy."
As Hudson read this letter at his mission station in Chin-kiang on Saturday, September 4, 1869, his eyes were opened. "As I read," he recalled, "I saw it all, I looked to Jesus, and when I saw, oh how the joy flowed!"
Writing to his sister in England, he said: "As to work, mine was never so plentiful, so responsible, or so difficult; but the weight and strain are all gone. The last or more has been perhaps the happiest of my life, and I long to tell you a little of what the Lord has done for my soul. When the agony of soul was at its height, a sentence in a letter from dear McCarthy was used to remove the scales from my eyes, and the Spirit of God revealed the truth of our oneness with Jesus as I had never known it before."
McCarthy, who had been much exercised by the same sense of failure, but saw the light before I did, wrote: "But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith but by resting on the Faithful One."
"As I read, I saw it all!...As I thought of the Vine and the branches, what light the blessed Spirit poured into my soul!"
The main method of witness in China today is the personal lifestyle and behavior of Christians, accompanied by their proclamations of the Gospel, often at great personal risk.
Prayer requests for the China Team
Your prayers are so important and necessary to us and for us and we thank you (Xie Xie... shea shea, thank you in Chinese) for taking the time and effort to buoy us up before the Lord.
The earnest prayer of a righteous man has great power and wonderful results. James 5: 16b
The earnest prayer of a righteous man has great power and wonderful results. James 5: 16b
- To humble ourselves and rebuke prideful thoughts and attitudes.
- Protection for ourselves and our families, - place a hedge of protection over all.
- To always pray and ask for the Holy Spirit's guidance and direction in developing plans and speaking materials. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3: 5, 6
- Bind spiritual warfare from all our activities, thoughts, productiveness, busyness interference, etc.
- To develop a deep and abiding love in our hearts for our Chinese sisters and brothers in Christ.
- To prepare the hearts of the Chinese Christians to receive all that God has chosen for them.
- To raise up missionaries in China.
- For China, guidance for their leaders and country. For the Chinese government to remain open to Christian teaching.
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