AsiaStories

Shanghai native Yan Hua* cannot forget the life lessons she’s learned: trust no one, play both sides, be invisible and don’t rock the boat. At 75 years old, she still looks over her shoulder in fear. Like many of China’s elderly, she has never heard the Gospel of hope.

Feng Tan pastors a Southeast Asian church full of believers of Chinese descent. Along with his wife and five members of his congregation, he travels to South Asia to conduct discipleship training among former Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus. In each meeting, the Chinese believers teach the basics of Christian conduct, but more importantly, they hope their presence will encourage South Asians that God can mature Asian Christians into believers with effective and powerful ministries as He has done for them.

A five-year journey of emotional ups and downs comes to an end for a Christian worker in China. Diana Huang* says her own special “goodbye” with a recording project, sharing testimonies about her friends and their unique walks of faith.

I will never be Chinese enough to enjoy chicken feet or innards or sharing a bed with four other girls in the summertime. What they see isn’t how assimilated or “Chinese” I can be. What they see and remember is how I cared, loved, embraced, engaged and shared life with them.