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Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues: South
Asia Wed: East
Asia Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific
Frid: South
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America Please join me in praying for one part of
the world each day:
Jesus, today please bless the people of Central
& North America
Saturday October 6, 2012 Daily Blog John W Previous 2012 blogs
Dear Friends
As you go around Hong Kong, you often see a church or school run/sponsored by "The Church of Christ in China"
Yesterday
as I read a bit more of "Frederick" by Mark O'Neill
I finally understood where the name "Church of Christ in China" comes
from
In 1922 there were 140 different Protestant missionary societies working in China....with a wide variety of doctrines and practices, very confusing to the local people, an obstacle to the spread of the Good News
So, in 1927, sixteen of the larger societies...mainly Presbyterian and Congregationalist.....united to form the Church of Christ in China...a self-supporting local church without denominational labels and with locals in charge
The foreign societies had done well in producing a large pool of local clergy, doctors etc. The time had come for foreigners to move to the background in a support role, and at the same time to stop imposing European divisions on the church in China
See
Wikipedia's summary
article
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On
this of the month, Jesus
please bless the
people of Hainain
(Please join me in praying for one
part of China each day of the month)
Today's
4-course Bible meal = Please join me in using these
readings
to remind ourselves what life is all about
Thank you for a prayer
God bless!
John W
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