China Sending: A Mission Force on the Rise

Lausanne World Pulse ^

[AfricanChristian]

(Unbelievable!!)

On the sixth day of the sixth month of the year 2006 we gathered to pray, worship and celebrate communion together in our home in Beijing with Chinese and foreign brothers and sisters. We desired to seek ways to help mobilize the Chinese Church for Great Commission work. We wrestled with many questions: How does God want to use Pioneers in China to serve in the sending out of Chinese missionaries? What role can we have? Are we needed? The response came from our Chinese brothers who said, “We need you to ‘pu lu xian feng’ ”—to go ahead to prepare the road, to smooth the way.

First, they asked us to introduce them to contacts in Central Asia the Middle East and Russia. Second, they asked us if we would help find letters of invitation (NGOs, business, agriculture, medical, academic) for Chinese missionaries so that they could apply for visas. Third, they asked us if we would help with the training for a small pilot project. They spoke of the testimonies of Chinese already serving in the Middle East and we were amazed to hear of the many ways God has used Chinese missionaries in closed Islamic countries. We are grateful to be in a close relationship with some of China’s gifted missionary leaders.

It was a joy to travel with a friend to Central Asia and to stand by his side as he shared about the Chinese Church and its mission movement. As my friend spoke in Chinese, I translated into English and a Kazak brother translated into Russian.

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He Reigns lyrics

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He Reigns lyrics

It’s the song of the redeemed
Rising from the African plain
It’s the song of the forgiven
Drowning out the Amazon rain
The song of Asian believers
Filled with God’s holy fire
It’s every tribe, every tongue, every nation
A love song born of a grateful choir

It’s all God’s children singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, He reigns
It’s all God’s children singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, He reigns
Let it rise about the four winds
Caught up in the heavenly sound
Let praises echo from the towers of cathedrals
To the faithful gathered UNDER GROUND
Of all the songs sung from the dawn of creation
Some were meant to persist
Of all the bells rung from a thousand steeples
None rings truer than this

It’s all God’s children singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, He reigns
It’s all God’s children singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, He reigns
It’s all God’s children singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, He reigns
It’s all God’s children singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, He reigns

And all the powers of darkness
Tremble at what they’ve just heard
‘Cause all the powers of darkness
Can’t drown out a single word

When all God’s children sing out
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, He reigns
All God’s people singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, He reigns