Sentences with phrase «china as missionaries»

After an exciting and varied life in many areas, including an IT executive, David, his wife, and their daughter felt a strong call to go to China as missionaries.

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As Professor Paul Evans and I have argued in a paper for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada could once lay claim to a «special relationship» with China — a legacy of missionary and humanitarian contacts, early diplomatic recognition, and as a reliable supplier of wheat during a period when trade with China was nascent at best, if not taboAs Professor Paul Evans and I have argued in a paper for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada could once lay claim to a «special relationship» with China — a legacy of missionary and humanitarian contacts, early diplomatic recognition, and as a reliable supplier of wheat during a period when trade with China was nascent at best, if not taboas a reliable supplier of wheat during a period when trade with China was nascent at best, if not taboo.

He was born and grew up in China, as a child of missionaries.

In a poignant moment in the film, Liddell tells his sister that he has decided to return to China to serve as a missionary.

He was not afraid to say that «the hundred missionary societies in China today are as suicidal for Christianity as the civil divisions are to the national peace and prosperity.»

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

Adam, one of the Nestorian missionaries in China, was considered by the Buddhists as dangerous not because he was making Christianity too Buddhist but because he was trying to make Buddhism look too Christian.

Japanese imperial rule (beginning in 1910) and the burdens of World War II disturbed these efforts, but when China «fell» to the communists in 1949, many groups, such as the Oriental Missionary Society, pivoted towards Korea.

As usual, missionary activity followed trade, and, even as most evangelical groups remained focused on evangelizing China, some began ministry in earnest in the former «hermit kingdom.&raquAs usual, missionary activity followed trade, and, even as most evangelical groups remained focused on evangelizing China, some began ministry in earnest in the former «hermit kingdom.&raquas most evangelical groups remained focused on evangelizing China, some began ministry in earnest in the former «hermit kingdom.»

Not everyone is to go as a missionary to China; not every Christian has the skills or stamina to salvage the human wrecks in our major cities.

When I was in China many years ago I remember some Christian missionaries telling me that they used Confucianism as a Chinese Old Testament.

As we said earlier about Adam, a Nestorian missionary in China, that he knew Chinese classics and had studied the writings of Taoist mystics, and he was skilful in choosing illustrations from them.

As one sat day by day with great personalities from China, Japan, India, Africa, South America and other quarters of the earth, one realized that the final meaning of the missionary movement is the development of a world - wide fellowship in which every race will make its own indispensable contribution to the building of a Christian world.

Torrance's sense of mission, formed by his experience as the child of a missionary family in China, guided him throughout his career.

The former Scream Queens star is dating actor Robert Buckley, PEOPLE... Michele or Michael Ruggieri (1543 — 11 May 1607), born Pompilio Ruggieri and known in China as Luo Mingjian, was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary.

The pace of missionary expansion increased considerably after the first Anglo - Chinese war (known as the First Opium War, 1839 - 1842) with Christian missionaries, working under the protection of Western powers, playing a major role in Westernizing China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

I was captivated by the love of the missionary couple for each other, by their unrelenting belief and faith in what they were doing, and by their interest and selfless compassion for the people they came to know and love in China - a country they quickly took on as their own.

Molly Patterson's debut novel, Rebellion, moves fluidly between generations and continents as it traces the lives of four women, including a missionary's wife in China during the Boxer Rebellion and her sister back home on a farm in southern Illinois.

The impact of Christ's love on our 11 years as missionaries in China and Taiwan.