Welcome to this New Year's mashup edition of China Compass and the Prison Pulpit!

Nearly every week, I mention the Appendix to my little book, Unbeaten, which details my arrest, interrogation, and deportation from China in 2018. This appendix, entitled Remember My Chains, is the written version of a message I’ve given all over the world about how to pray for the persecuted church.

You can get my book and the sermon, Remember My Chains, at Unbeaten.vip, or read it for free on Substack where it was just posted yesterday: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/remember-my-chains

The following notes follow the basic flow of today's podcast...

Borden of Yale: The Millionaire Missionary

BordenofYale.com

William Borden’s plea for more missionaries to serve in China:

Beginning in September, he managed to visit at least thirty colleges and seminaries before sailing for Egypt in December. Spending one to three days in each place gave opportunities for private conversations as well as meetings. On many occasions, with the background of his experience at sea he would ask, “Are you steering or drifting?”

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Often Borden would meet one to whom it seemed too high, with another question: 

“Are you willing to be made willing?” 

“If ten men are carrying a log…nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end, and you want to help, which end will you lift on?”

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In proportion to the population at the time, there were five hundred times as many ministers of the gospel in the United States as there were ordained missionaries in China.

Wang Yi on the need for more evangelistic, church planting pastors in China:

"Our churches are becoming crowded with middle class professionals. The gospel needs to enter the city more deeply. It must enter the drains, enter in with the petitioners and the marginalized peoples. 

If your church still has no pastors; if there are no pastors in your city, your community, or even your street; if your company has a GM but there is no pastor there; if the university you work for has a Party committee secretary but there is no pastor, then I must ask: do you know the average ratio of prostitutes to pastors in China? Do you know the ratio of thieves to pastors, of corrupt officials to pastors?"

Wang Yi’s New Year’s (Twenty Year) Resolutions...

Read the full letter: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/wang-yi-family-newsletter-11-27-2018

A Couple of New Year’s Stories from Northwest China:

7 or 8 years ago tonight, my team and I got chased all over a Chinese village on New Year’s Eve…

19 years ago tonight my father and I almost got ourselves killed in China, in more ways than one…

Recommended Resource:

Borden of Yale: The Millionaire Missionary BordenofYale.com