David Joannes
Christians in China are being increasingly persecuted, and a pastor’s wife was killed last week protesting demolition of her church (ChinaAid.org) A Christian woman’s fateful and defiant stance in front of a bulldozer last week evoked the memory of Tiananmen Square and has become a rallying cry against persecution at the hands of the Beijing government. Martyr killed by bulldozer…
read morePersecution. It’s a hot topic right now. It seems it always has been. From Foxe’s Book of Martyrs to China’s Cultural Revolution, to present day Isis beheadings and an array of unspoken atrocities toward Christians. We are living in the end times, where wars and rumors of wars are taking place now. And living in the end times is actually…
read moreIn less than two weeks, I will be flying to China, then training down to the China/Vietnam border to officiate the wedding of our local missionaries who were recently interrogated a beaten by the police only six months ago. It is still very fresh: the sting of the blow of fists, the snap of boots to chest, the verbal barrage…
read more“They beat him up! They kicked him,” they cried. We held each others’ shoulders in sadness. “They beat up our beloved brother!” Our van bumped along the winding dirt paths leading up to an unreached people group that we have been targeting for almost 10 years. The banana plantations dotted the valley landscape through the mountains as far as the…
read moreOur missionaries are action people. They are easily bored by the status quo. They are counter-cultural ragamuffins. It’s National Day in China right now, and everyone is enjoying a 5 day holiday. But instead of resting, Within Reach Global missionaries decided to take the opportunity to pour their lives into new Christians who are considering going into full time ministry.…
read more“More persecution, more growth. That is the history of the Church.” Pastor Samuel Lamb, a Chinese Christian who was imprisoned for his faith for 21 years, grins with a toothy smile as he let’s you in on the reality of Christian persecution. “More growth,” he repeats, and then he is silent, contemplating his years of suffering; thinking of the church…
read moreBlog by Sister Li, Within Reach Global local missionary. This is an update from our persecuted local missionaries at The Edge outreach center near Myanmar. Update from our persecuted local missionaries at The Edge outreach center near Myanmar. Click To Tweet Check out previous blogs on persecution, and what happened to them here: Persecution Is Still Very Real In The…
read moreThe Mind of a Missionary notes I have included a detailed list of notes and citations for each chapter in The Mind of a Missionary. There are many exciting gems awaiting you in these books, archives, articles, journals, sermons, videos, and websites. Enjoy browsing the resources below as you continue exploring the missionary mind. Jump to: …
read moreI pray you will be inspired by David’s life and book to see the poor and the broken as treasures God wants to bring to His banqueting table and invite them home. HEIDI BAKER Co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Board at Iris Global and author of several books, including Birthing the Miraculous, www.irisglobal.org David’s tales of wildfaring and wayfaring,…
read moreOn this episode of Missions Pulse, David Joannes interviews Brent Fulton, an avid China watcher and the founder of ChinaSource. Fulton has written and taught extensively on the church in China and on Chinese social and political phenomena. He is the author of China’s Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden and co-authored China’s Next Generation: New China, New…
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