Mission Trip To China Book Report

My second hometown, Fuzhou, was one of the five “treaty ports” in the 1842’s Treaty of Nanjing signed between China and the United Kingdom. British merchandise flooded into China through these five ports, Qing dynasty’s seclusion policy which functioned as the national defense system was forced to collapse. In the meantime, missionaries also came to China and built churches, hospitals and schools. My home church in Fuzhou was built in this time (1856) by Rev. Robert Samuel Maclay and other missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church. Not only our church, almost all the schools and hospitals in my district (similar to the town in the States) were all founded by the missionaries. After the Culture Revolution, government took over all these schools, hospitals and churches. The missionaries and their work were …show more content…
When God “confused the language of the whole world” because of men’s arrogance, people were scattered “over the face of the whole earth” (Genesis 11:9). Today when we go into the world in order to find these scattered people and tell them the salvation God has given to them through Jesus. More than several thousand years’ separation, these arrogant people became different nations. Missionaries who travel to different cultures or countries are facing great challenges. When Matteo Ricci went mission trip all the way from Italy to China, in order to communicate with local people, he learned to speak and read in Chinese, and dressed like a Chinese. He did all these things so that he could share the gospel with people in a foreign country. Mission requires people to emerge into the target culture. Like Paul said in 1 Corinthians, he tried to become like a Jew, become like one under the law, become like one not having the law, become weak; so as to win these people (10:20-22). Missionaries as outsiders will be easier to share the gospel if they are accepted to a local