Source: SEND International, August 15, 2017<\/p>\n
Thousands of Chinese youth [gathered last month] as the Chinese church works steadily toward an ambitious goal: to send 20,000 missionaries by the year 2030.<\/p>\n
J.E., SEND\u2019s regional director in Asia, serves as one of the consultants from various organizations who are coming alongside mission-minded Chinese believers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been amazing to watch the mainland Chinese church develop this growing heart and passion to reach out,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s very much an indigenous movement, but when we are asked we can share insights from our own history and experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re drawn to the Middle East, to Muslim countries, even to the unreached within China\u2019s borders,\u201d J.E. explained. \u201cChina is home to more than 400 unreached people groups\u2014second only to India.\u201d<\/p>\n
The goal of 20,000 wasn\u2019t arbitrarily chosen. Chinese leaders estimate that about 20,000 missionaries have served in China in the past 200 years, and they want to repay this \u201cgospel debt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Previous Chinese-led missions movements have started out with great enthusiasm, but various factors, including lack of support from churches back home, led to missionaries often returning after just a few years. The Mission China 2030 movement aims to change that.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb See also a story about Russian missionaries venturing into some of the least-reached parts of Mongolia<\/a> (Christian Broadcasting Network).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: SEND International, August 15, 2017 Thousands of Chinese youth [gathered last month] as the Chinese church works steadily toward an ambitious goal: to send 20,000 missionaries by the year 2030. J.E., SEND\u2019s regional director in Asia, serves as one of the consultants from various organizations who are coming alongside mission-minded Chinese believers. \u201cIt has … Continue reading CHINA: Movement Envisions Sending Thousands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7390,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions\/7390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}