As many of you have seen in the news and on our blog, amazing changes have been occurring in mainland China over the past couple of decades. Very recent signals continue to point to an expanding openness to Christian faith and practice on the part of governing authorities. While sporadic persecution does still occur throughout the country, there are also massive shifts underway and increasing freedom of worship. We rejoice in these opportunities for the spread of the gospel.
At Desiring God International Outreach one of our strategies is to develop resources in formats and languages that will help equip our network to meet the needs of indigenous churches and believers around the world. Several years ago we began dreaming about new projects to provide those resources in Simplified Script Chinese for the mainland.
One project was to create the first John Piper book in that language, published legally within the country. The translation work for this is now complete and we are awaiting approval to publish. Please pray for that process!
Today we are announcing the launch of the second project which is a Chinese-language website with sermons and articles posted weekly. Internet usage in China continues at a rapid pace—384 million by the end of 2009. That’s more than the entire population of the United States! That is why we believe this project is so strategic.
Over the past year we have been at work, along with our project manager in China, translating Pastor John’s messages and preparing them for online access. Each week we will post one sermon and one article that have been translated into Simplified Chinese characters. Much of this work has been done through volunteers, and we are always looking for additional skilled translators.
The new site can be found at http://www.kemushen.org.
If you are a Chinese reader or know someone who is, please bookmark this site and also help us spread the word! Then come back every week for newly translated God-centered resources.
And pray for our brothers and sisters in China!
