David Joannes
245SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “The harvest is in the seed.” That’s what our local missionary, Brother Yang, told me many years ago. We are now seeing fruit spring up in an area where the gospel has been largely unheard of before. “The harvest…
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392SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List One thing we promise all our visiting short term teams: we will let you experience things on the mission field that will be stories you can tell your children and children’s children! You will eat things you’ve never dreamt…
read more370SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This month we hosted 2 short term teams from America, from Victory Faith Fellowship in Spokane, WA and from The Rock of Roseville in Northern California. A total of 19 people traversed the Pacific and arrived in China to…
read more258SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List My friend Toby at The Asian Rough Rider just posted something highly notable, and something I have been hashing over for a long time. He, of course is Asian, so it seems that it would be natural for him…
read more466SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Being a missionary is difficult because you cannot calculate success like a businessman can, measuring results by total assets, number of staff, or financial income. Life transformation is not nearly as tangible as most occupational positions. Being a missionary…
read more313SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Chinese Christians vowed to “guard their church to the end” while facing the growing anti-church campaign in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Local pastors and church members from various churches published a public letter the Wenzhou City government which included…
read more226SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Here I am writing about the same thing again: the unreached and unengaged people groups of the 10/40 Window. I’m writing again because I am convicted and confounded by the lack of care and concern of Christians for those…
read more457SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List In 2008, China declared internet addiction to be a clinical disorder, saying it’s a top health threat to its teenagers. “Some kids are so hooked on these games that they think taking a restroom break will affect their performance…
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329SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Sometimes my Facebook feed inspires. After unfollowing all the people who did nothing but post selfies of their beautiful faces all day, A richer social media experience returned. I saw people posting things that mattered, things that make a…
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362SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Follow @davidjoannes My Instagram feed is has been overwhelmed by a series of loaded leg guns! Yes, I follow Ai Weiwei, a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism.…
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