Church Planting

By Simon Johnson Simon and Helen Johnson are in New Zealand on home assignment until the beginning of 2019. In this article, we asked Simon to reflect on the topic of resilience, and to discuss [...]

By Gemma Creasy   The New Arrival As I walk down the streets with crowds of people all around me speaking words unfamiliar to my ears, it all blurs together into background noise. Between those [...]

By Ailsa Barker Wirawan. A testimony of ministry to an unreached people on the east coast of SE Asia, pioneered by a local church and now part of a national missionary organization. It was a [...]

By Simon and Helen Johnson “I’ll make you a contract,” Yong I, one of our new believers, said to her husband Kevin. “If you want to keep worshipping your idols in our shop, then you have to come [...]

By Faye Imagine an area the size of New Zealand with 47 million people living in it, many of whom live in villages separated by mountains and isolated through language.  Imagine those people [...]

By Doug We are church planters. That means we seek to start a church where there is none, aiming to see its members reaching out to start other churches. The challenge is that the government of [...]

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, … For where your treasure [...]

Article featured in 2013 East Asia Insight Q3 The Chinese church continues to grow and respond to new challenges and opportunities in an ever-changing social landscape. But much work remains. [...]