CCD Monthly                                                      October 2021

Christian scholar Ran Yunfei said in a lecture that he is researching Chinese biographies of foreign missionaries in China, which is often neglected. 

A Chinese scholar attempted to interpret the Analects with a perspective of viewing Confucius as a "seer" and emphasizes the concept of "heaven" in Confucian teachings. 

The stratification of religious believers in China had been shifting towards the urban, the young, and the elite populations, said a professor.

Churches in Hejin City, Shanxi Province, organized believers to send food, water, gloves, rain ponchos, and head torches to volunteers who fought against flood.

Chengdu Young Women’s Christian Association in Sichuan held the first Special Children’s Games at Jintang Special Education School.

The new large-volume book covers the photocopies of seven magazines published by missionaries in China from the mid 19th to mid 20th century.

Recently a pastor in East China stressed that if Christians desired to integrate faith into their lives, they ought to pay more attention to culture and sports, and to enhance the training of willpower and character.

People have the impression that churches are full of old people and women, and that men don’t often go to church. The phenomenon that more women than men in the church makes the marriage of the relatively older single sisters in the church difficult. 
 

The Nanjie Church is struggling with problems such as the aging of believers, the loss of young believers, and the lack of a full-time pastor to care for believers. The person in charge asks for help.