Swiss-based pastor Jean-Luc Trachsel spoke at Empower 21's Everyone Asia 2024 earlier this month on healing and reaching the whole world with the gospel.
Rev. Xu Xiaohong, chairman of the National Committee of TSPM, led a Chinese delegation to attend the first assembly of the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) in Egypt.
Invited by the German Bible Society and the French Bible Society, the Shaanxi CC&TSPM delegation went to Germany and France for a visit from June 12 to 19, 2024.
Descendants of Charles Henry Riggs, who was an American professor at the University of Nanking during the Nanjing Massacre and also an important member of the Nanjing Safety Zone International Committee, paid a visit to the memorial hall in Nanjing, Jiangsu.
As the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, Rev. Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, continued his visit to China, discussions have focused on the contextualization of faith and the strengthening of collaboration with Christians and inter-religious partners. The visit included meetings with the Amity Foundation and various religious and governmental leaders.
World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay is currently visiting China (23-28 May) to engage with church and religious leaders at national and regional levels in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Beijing.
After visiting Shanghai and Hubei Province, Rev. Erik Burklin, president of China Partner, took a tour to churches and ministries in Guangdong Province.
Shaanxi CC&TSPM hosted Rev. Levi Park, director of the international ministry of the Louis Palau Association in the United States, and Dr. Wang Xiuyu, the chief advisor.
On April 24th, Rev. Hanns Hoerschelmann, Executive Director of Mission One World, and two others visited the China Christian Council and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (CCC & TSPM).
“Our meeting today can be regarded as historic!” For the first time in history, top-level representatives from the Protestant churches of Russia and China are meeting on each others’ soil.
“The prayer that I pray for those who are coming for the global gathering is that they will see that God is on the move,” says Rev. Dr. Casely Essamuah, Secretary of the Global Christian Forum (GCF) as 250 representatives from all streams of Christianity are gathering in Accra, Ghana from April 16-19 for what is likely the most diverse meeting of Christian leaders globally.
As the Global Christian Forum closed in Ghana on 19 April, the gathering shared a message focusing on moving beyond a posture of “us” and “them,” and on how we can be inspired to act together for the restoration of the world.
Representatives from TSPM churches in China participated in the Fourth Global Gathering of the Global Christian Forum (GCF4) conducted in Accra, Ghana from April 15 to 20.
Vitaly Vlasenko, general secretary of the Russian Evangelical Alliance, led the four-person Russian Protestant delegation to visit China in late April.
Ms. Elaine Duncan, chair of the Global Council of the United Bible Society, led a delegation to visit CCC&TSPM, discussing the Bible ministry and translation talent development.