Sat, 21 Feb 2004

Feb 21, 2004, 12:11 [home/journal/faith]
Chinese Christians Everywhere

I’ve noticed lately how many Chinese Christians attend our church. So many of the medical university students from Mac who attend our earlier contemporary service are Chinese.

What drew me to post a comment was this blog in which Martin Roth notices the same thing.

Because the media are generally not interested in Christian good news stories they have missed the other side to the tale - the growth of the local Chinese church and the fact that so much of this expansion comes from migrants who arrive as Buddhists and then find Jesus.

An example of what is happening is Melbourne’s Evangelical Chinese Church, which I visited recently. Started in 1978 with 10 members, it now attracts some 1,400 worshippers (including children) to 10 services each Sunday, in Mandarin, Cantonese and English, at four locations. And it is still growing.