Online Book Club

Welcome to the Online Book Club!

We invite friends, scholars, and curious readers to join us as we explore works that illuminate Chinese worldviews, past and present. Through these shared readings and discussions, we aim to gain richer insights into China, the church, and their ongoing global impact.

In this season of uncertainty, we choose to turn a time of isolation into a shared journey of patience, hope, and meaningful discovery. We’re so glad you’re here.

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FACILITATOR Joann Pittman is the Vice-President for Partnerships and China Engagement at ChinaSource. Before joining ChinaSource she spent more than 20 years in China as a teacher, student, and intercultural trainer. She has taught courses in Chinese history, culture, and language at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul (MN), Taylor University (IN), and Wheaton College (IL).

About the book:

"A wonderful collection of excellent biographies of some most important figures in the history of China mission, written by the leading experts in the field."

--Kevin Xiyi Yao, Associate Professor of World Christianity and Asian Studies, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MAR

Builders of the Chinese Church contains the stories of nine leading pioneers--seven missionaries and two Chinese. Here we meet Robert Morrison, the heroic translator; Liang Fa, the first Chinese evangelist; missionary-scholar James Legge; J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission; converted opium addict Pastor Hsi ("Overcomer of Demons"); Griffith John and Jonathan Goforth, both indefatigable preachers; and the idealistic advocates of education and reform, W. A. P. Martin and Timothy Richard. Readers will be inspired by their courage, devotion, and sheer perseverance in arduous work, and will gain an understanding of the roots of the two "branches" of today's Chinese Protestantism.

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