Serving Others

The trip to China was an incredible experience for me.  Actually, looking back, the most rewarding part of the trip is the relationships I have begun to build with other people in our own church- like RJ, Lynn and Alan, Bill, and of course Wayne- AKA “Bunkee”.  After spending three years in the Middle East with my family, I began to realize how starved most Americans are for community, and this trip was a great way to build some of that.

It was a privilege to be able to see first hand what God is doing in China.  I had heard so much in recent years about the exponential growth rate of the house churches there, and I got to see some of that with my own eyes.  We met the first Christians EVER from a people group comprising several million!  And we got to spend time with the church planter who actually broke through to them.  I was amazed at the passion and the urgency of these relatively new Chinese Christians to take the Gospel to the most difficult parts of their country.  They are willing to suffer (and have already suffered) for their faith on a level that I cannot begin to imagine.  During the trip, I kept asking myself, “What can I, as an American Christian, possibly offer these people that seem to have so much more faith and joy than I have ever had?”