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By Jack R. Lundbom

ISBN-10: 149823531X

ISBN-13: 9781498235310

On the line to Siangyang tells the tale of a Swedish immigrant church in the United States venture, quickly after its association, a challenge to principal China that might final approximately sixty years, from 1890 to 1949, whilst Christian missionaries needed to go away the chinese language Mainland upon the institution of the People's Republic. Covenant missionary paintings used to be carried on alongside extensive strains: preaching and evangelism; clinical and benevolence paintings; and schooling for boys, women, and adults. Missionaries worked amid turbulent years: during the Boxer uprising (1900), the autumn of the Manchu dynasty (1911), ongoing civil warfare, and greater than a decade of eastern profession (1931-1949). 3 Covenant missionaries have been abducted via the communists and held for ransom, and one other 3 have been murdered at the highway from Siangyang to Kingchow. however the challenge paintings has borne fruit, and a last bankruptcy reviews the Christian paintings being carried on this day all through Hubei Province.

"Those attracted to China missions will locate this publication an eye-opener. I discovered a lot concerning the many missionaries that I had often called a small boy, and bought a deep realizing of the abiding religion in Jesus Christ that they had on the way to suffer their many hardships and disappointments. the ultimate bankruptcy approximately chinese language church buildings after 30 years of communist suppression proves how the seeds planted by means of these committed humans absolutely flowered."
--J. Edward Anderson, son of China Missionaries Oscar and Ruth Anderson

"Jack Lundbom offers a clean and interesting narrative of the evangelistic, benevolent, and academic paintings in important China started via Swedish american citizens in 1890, and increasing via six a long time of generational swap. Seeds that have been sown by way of devoted and sacrificial project neighbors to construct indigenous congregations and leaders are this day bearing fruit, acknowledged within the author's own experiences."
--Philip J. Anderson, Professor Emeritus of Church background, North Park Theological Seminary

Jack R. Lundbom is a member of Clare corridor, college of Cambridge, and in 2016 should be an Albright Fellow on the Albright Institute in Jerusalem. His most modern books are Jesus' Sermon at the Mount (2015) and Jeremiah (Cascade Books, 2015).

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