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2011

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From the General Director Hebrew history tells us that God’s chosen people have been scattered among the nations since the Old Testament time. A significant part of their history is about the Diaspora, the dispersion of the Jewish people from their original homeland into foreign areas. The Apostle Paul grew up in a Jewish diaspora family in the New Testament era, and his missionary work also began by reaching out to the Jewish diaspora community. Today, people all over the world are taking part in an unprecedented global migration, and a large number of them are not forced to leave their home country, they do so to find opportunities to pursue a better life.

More and more people groups are spreading all over the world and millions of people are constantly on the move. This growing trend has created new mission frontiers where the traditional method of sending missionaries to isolated geographical locations cannot be applied without necessary adjustments. Last October, during the Third Lausanne Congress on Global Evangelization, mission organizations and church leaders worldwide raised the awareness about the importance and urgency of finding effective strategies to reach out to the Diaspora of a given nation. In Europe, we are finding more and more Chinese people who leave China by choice to come here to study, work, and settle down. They are the Chinese Diaspora that the Mission of COCM has been reaching out to over the past 60 years.

INSIDE Evangelising ~ The observations of mainland Chinese students ~Maggie Siu ~Morning Mao ~Feng Liu ~Debbie

In recent years, we have seen a rapid increase in the number of overseas Chinese students coming to Europe. Currently this is the group within the Chinese Diaspora that we have the most extensive contact through our ministry. These young people set sail across the ocean with hopes, dreams and an open mind. They carry no baggage from the past and are free to explore new things in Europe. Therefore they tend to be more receptive to the Gospel than others in the overseas Chinese community. Furthermore, this generation of “after 80s” and even “after 90s” young people will be the future pillar and vital force of China. If a significant number among them are coming to Christ, they might become the movers and shakers to influence society wherever they go.

Many churches and mission organizations in Europe, and especially in the UK, have seized the moment to focus on evangelizing the overseas Chinese students. But the length of study at a UK university is quite short and new strict rules on immigration make it harder for foreign students to stay after they finish their degree courses. It is a huge challenge to get in touch with the students and make the Gospel meaningful to them during their brief stay. Meanwhile, the makeup of this overseas student group is undergoing noticeable changes. More and more are coming at a much younger age.

Having brought up with the influence of China’s pop culture, even older students are different from the same age students that were here a decade ago. It is difficult for those of us who live outside of China to know the thinking of these students right away when we first meet them. To be effective in evangelizing and equipping, we need to gain a fuller understanding of these young people among us. We devote this issue of COCM Link to observe from different perspectives the unique characteristics of this new generation of overseas students, the needs they are keeping inside and the challenges they are facing collectively. We hope to stimulate more in depth interactions with them and to develop more effective ministry strategies according to their situations.

We thank the Lord for calling local believers throughout Europe to partner with Chinese Christians to serve and care for the overseas Chinese students. I believer it is out of “His good, pleasing and perfect will” that God brings this generation of young people out of China and disperses them all over Europe. Let us follow God’s heart and win these young souls for Christ.

Rev. Henry Lu

神恩澤僑胞 福音遍全歐

Reaching the Chinese to Reach Europe

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The "after 80s" Chinese students in Europe The observations of these students from different perspectives help us to further adjust our ministry strategies...

Missionary couple Gordon Lam and Maggie Siu are serving the Chinese students and also in charge of organizing the COCM Gospel Team

Missionary Maggie Siu had studied in the US and worked in Hong Kong. In 2003, she and her husband Gordon Lam immigrated to Australia and served among young people at a local Chinese church. In May of 2010, they officially joined COCM as missionary staff workers. From last August to December, they were in charge of organizing the COCM Gospel Team.

Under the themes of “The pursuit of true love” and “It’s wonderful to know you,” the Gospel Team organized events that covered eleven cities within the UK, France and Finland. During this time they encountered mostly mainland Chinese students, including undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and exchange students.

After an intensive round of gospel work, Maggie reflects upon her encounters with these students and offers us her insight from a missionary perspective.

I once asked this question “What most impressed you while you were studying abroad?” to a few young men who came to study in the UK. It seemed coincidental that they all mentioned about feeling lonely and stressed from schoolwork. I remembered when I was distributing gospel-meeting flyers on campus, as soon as I asked people whether they felt comfortable living and studying there, their initially defensive body language and facial expression would change immediately and would answer my question with gratitude in their eyes. Once, a girl at University of Nottingham poured out to me, a stranger, all of her stresses in just a few minutes after we met. During the gospel meeting’s sharing time in Marseille, France, we touched upon the topic of loneliness. As a young man shared his experience about going through his sickness alone, we saw many tear filled eyes in the audience. In Finland, our local coworkers specifically asked us to address the issue of how to face loneliness. In the midst of loneliness people are all pursuing love and care.

Throughout “The pursuit of true love” gospel events, we shared a song “If”, written by Seh Lin, Lamb Music. This song deeply touched the students with its lyric as a conversation between God and man. The first stanza of the song talks about man’s desire for love; the second stanza talks about God’s love towards man and his redemption. The following is lyrics from the first stanza: If the whole of my life Is a star flitting once through the sky Then why do my dreams transcend time If the fact I'm alive is coincidence void of design

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Then why is love my desire Who can hear the cry – hear my cry Of my heart's most anguished sighing Who can give the reply – give me reply Where is there true love to find I believe that this song accurately depicts the emotions of overseas students. Many of them wept upon hearing this song. In Colchester, a student said that she never heard about God before, but she felt something very special when she saw that we could talk about love in such an open and truthful way. She felt it was rare that people could share with one another in honesty.

Right before she left, she said to me “I am definitely coming back to this fellowship again!”

Seek faith through sense and sensibility Due to the current culture in Mainland China, many students are from atheist family background. Many of the students I met had never heard of the gospel. Except the ones deeply influenced by their own families, they tend to be drawn to the gospel by curiosity. Those who become interested in the gospel are likely to approach the Christian faith from the aspect of science and reasoning. They would raise questions such as “how do you prove there is a God and God created the universe?” For those who have already heard about the gospel before, they tend to wrestle between the rational and the emotional; on the one hand, they insist that they must have evidence of proof about God in order to be convinced. On the other hand, they experience the feeling of a special kind of love among Christians. In one of the “It’s wonderful to know you” gospel camps in the UK, there was a young man in my small group who considered himself a very rational person. He was rather quiet for the first two days, but he shared on the last day, “I feel there is something like an electric wave among you. It has been stirring my heart and I could not explain it.” I think the “electric wave” he described is actually God’s love. The “stirring of heart” is his experience of being attracted by God’s love. Because he was so used to just being “rational” he might find it hard to articulate.

Influence of the western culture Since European culture is deeply rooted in Christianity, many students from Mainland China would hold a positive view of Christianity and are open to its influence. They see attending church activities as a way to understand more about European culture, as well as an opportunity to meet local people and practice their English. Meanwhile, students are given more space for independent thinking when they come to a foreign country alone leaving behind the influence of their family and their own culture. These facts all show that it is a great opportunity to share the gospel with overseas students. Hence, some local Christian organizations such as “Friends International” and “Christian Union” have seized such great

opportunities to organize activities regularly to build relationship with the students and share the gospel with them. Students from Mainland China are more receptive to these softer approaches in sharing the gospel message.

That is why we are actively collaborating with these organizations. Their pre-evangelism work makes it much easier for us to share the gospel with the students.

Among the students who accepted Christ in Nottingham and Sunderland’s gospel meetings, some had attended friendship-building activities and acquired a sketched idea of Christianity.

Future opportunities and challenges Through my interactions with the students in different places, I have come to know them as a group of kind, honest and simple young people. Perhaps they are not all clear about their lifelong goals yet, but as a group they are certainly willing to listen and seek the truth.

We do need to pray for wisdom to get to know them at a deeper level so we can share the gospel with them according to their needs. However, no matter who they are, I believe that the pursuit of love is the most inner desire for mankind. And I also believe that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. God’s love has touched and redeemed countless people in the past, and His love will do the same for these “After 80s” (young people that were born after the year 1980 and before 1990). We trust that these young people who are studying abroad will become influential in China’s future society. Therefore, we should take advantage of the time and opportunity right now, and share the gospel with them while they are in Europe. One day they shall bring the good news back to China, make Christ known among their own people, and be a wonderful testimony for God.

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Evangelising Morning is from the same generation and background as those mainland Chinese students born after 1985.

Morning Mao originally comes from Shanghai, China. In 2005 she came to Nottingham in the UK to study as an undergraduate, and was baptised the following year. Since then she has been actively involved in the ministry at the Nottingham Mandarin Fellowship, and is currently studying for a doctorate in environmental science at the University of Nottingham. Over the last several years she has had a lot of contact with mainland Chinese students, especially young people born after 1985.

Because she is from the same generation and background as these students, she is able to give an outline of the key points we need to consider when ministering to them from a peer’s perspective.

The characteristics of overseas students from Mainland China Even though the restrictions on foreign immigration in the UK have become ever stricter under the Conservative Party leadership, the enthusiasm among students from Mainland China for studying in the UK has not begun to wane. In China competition for jobs is fierce, and one might say that many more undergraduate students are looking to overseas study as a way of improving their value to employers. However, a more negative view might be that many are simply trying to bury their head in the sand by coming abroad. In the wake of rising standards of living, more and more parents are opting to send their children overseas for university or even secondary school, and the average age of Chinese students in the UK is already getting lower by the year.

There has also been a fresh increase in the numbers of exchange students from Chinese universities, both as many British universities have now opened branch institutions in China (for instance The University of Nottingham in Ningbo and University of Leeds in Suzhou), and also as increasingly more exchange programmes are available to Chinese students on a school or university level.

Generally speaking however, the study programmes in the UK are relatively short. Exchange students and postgraduates are typically only here for a year on average, while undergraduate and doctoral courses may only last three years. Students have only a short

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time in which to balance their studies and experience of British life and culture, and often their packed schedules make it very difficult for us to build friendships with them. This is especially true of exchange students who have travelled to the UK with an existing community of fellow classmates as friends. Some of them have a desire to understand more about faith or to take part in church activities, but they can be easily discouraged by the pressures and opinions of their peers. Sometimes we have only just managed to make friends with them by the time they have to return home.

Key points to consider Most of the Chinese students in the UK today were born after 1985. The vast majority come from single-child families, and have grown up in an environment where everything has been handed to them on a plate. As such, they lack initiative in addressing their futures and their present needs. Few of them have made their own plans or have their own opinions about life because it is often eclipsed by parental influence. Many of us feel that the debt we owe to our parents who have given so much for us is too great to ever repay, but equally the pressure of parental love can be suffocating. Some people say that those who have become parents since 1980 live only for two things: money and children. Many have had to travel far from their villages and towns to earn a living without returning home for several years, while in order to give their children a stable home, husband and wife will not divorce even if there has been an emotional breakdown in the marriage relationship. All of this means that this generation of young people can be afraid or unwilling to go against their parents’ wishes. In Chinese we say ‘heaven is way above us and the emperor is far away’ - so their influence can be easy to ignore, but for these young people, if any of them have parents who are against them going to church because of a bias against religion or because of a different religious background, this can still have a strong effect on them even far away from home.

This is a real obstacle for recent believers as well as for those who are still just seeking.

Students from this kind of family background generally need more attention and time to talk over the issues they are facing. In the Nottingham Mandarin Fellowship, the English brothers and sisters find it difficult to offer them advice due to the cultural differences, and moreover in British culture people don’t usually give much advice to their friends as this can be seen as interfering with other people’s choices. On the other hand, the Chinese believers are short staffed with limited time, and they tend to be

younger believers lacking experience of any real testing in their spiritual lives. It’s frustrating that we often see people come to hear the gospel, but even though there is a willingness to respond, the lack of prompt follow-up or awareness of their particular needs means that many of them never come back to church.

Aside from the influence of family, life in this generation of moral decline is causing the sense of right and wrong to be more and more confused in students’ minds. For instance, most students from Mainland China enjoy watching American TV shows and Japanese anime.

These not only occupy most of their leisure time, but certain values and lifestyle patterns presented in them are having a deep effect on the young generation. American shows promote sexual promiscuity and Japanese anime communicates an approach to life where other people’s opinions don’t matter, encouraging you to listen only to your own ideas and desires. These can subtly diffuse into real life and arguably obscure a person’s understanding of sin and the sinful nature. This in turn can suppress their thirst for the Saviour. Other forms of media and entertainment programmes can similarly cause influence through the moral standards and norms they promote.

Those who have come to Christ in the UK For a number of years God has been drawing his servants from all over the world to the UK, and many have seen considerable fruit from evangelistic meetings.

Thanks to the grace of God, many of the people who have come to the Lord have a real passion to serve him, and have gradually become the central driving force of their local church fellowships. However, there have also been many students who initially made a positive decision to

accept Christ in a conference atmosphere, but failed to go any deeper in their understanding of faith. Once they have gone back to their local churches or fellowships, a lack of good follow-up mixed with challenges in their own lives can mean that they slowly drift away from God. There have been a few brothers and sisters I have met who initially made a commitment at a conference, but after a time decided that faith in Christ is irrelevant or seemed to not benefit them in any way.

In today’s UK, immigration is not encouraged so foreign students only have a short time to spend with us. The employment opportunities are also few and many students have no chance to experience what real church life is like, perhaps having time only to make a commitment or get baptised before they have to return to China. Once they are back home, the different environment, difficulty in adapting to church life in China, or pressures from parents or work can bring about a series of crises in their faith. Although we can say that an experience of God’s grace in trials and tribulations is the basis for deeper reliance on God, the difficulty lies in how we might focus our efforts on helping these brothers and sisters develop strong foundations and root themselves in God’s word in the limited time we have together. This is something we desperately need to seek the Lord over in prayer.

These are some of my thoughts and feelings on what I have seen since getting involved with the Nottingham Mandarin Fellowship. The present need in Europe is incredibly great. In Luke 10:2 Jesus tells His disciples, “the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.” May God put His vision on our hearts and establish the work of our hands by His grace.

Feng serves at a local English church, and in his work he often comes into contact with students from Mainland China.

Feng Liu is from Shanghai, China. He came to Newcastle to study a Master’s degree in 2005. A year later he accepted Christ and was baptised.

After graduation he became a volunteer for Friends International, reaching out to international students in the locality. Currently he serves at Jesmond Parish Church in Newcastle, heading the international students’ ministry. In his work he often comes into contact with many kinds of students from Mainland China, and this short interview gives us a glimpse of some of these students.

Q: In your work you frequently meet students from Mainland China. Can you briefly describe what they are like?

Feng: Just like other cities in the UK, in Newcastle there are increasingly more students coming from China, and their average age is increasingly getting younger too. However, the students that I often come across are those who are more mature, around 30 years old or so.

I categorise them as the group of ‘Mature students’ and ‘Remaining students’.

Q: What do you mean by ‘Mature students’ and ‘Remaining students’?

Feng: ‘Mature students’ are those who have worked

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Evangelising in China for several years before coming overseas to study, whereas ‘Remaining’ students are those who came to UK at a young age to study, and after graduation have decided to either pursue further study or to find employment here. In my interactions with them, I have gained some personal insight, and also observed some traits that are characteristic of these students, which I can share here.

Q: Then please tell us about these traits!

Feng: As I mentioned, this group of students are around 30 years of age. Unlike the younger students who are often fascinated by new things, these older students tend to avoid being lectured to in order to maintain their self-respect. Therefore they prefer to use their existing world-view and value system to incorporate new things. In other words, they select what is suitable from your wisdom and assimilate to increase their own wisdom. So if time allows, they would often join in various church activities, such as Sunday worship services and Bible studies. Their behaviour and thinking might undergo huge changes influenced by ‘positive’ attitudes in Christianity, and they might also become more generous and active in joining events that serve the church. Gradually some of them even recognise the existence of God and acknowledge themselves as Christians. They very much admire and accept the high moral standard of self-denial that Christians hold, and also strive in much effort to achieve this moral standard.

Some of them consider themselves as living for the good of people around them, and they take joy in helping others. However, in the depth of their hearts they are still trapped in becoming good by their own efforts and their own way, the way I mentioned earlier, the way of keeping their own world-view yet accommodating their existing value system into new things.

Q: So you mean they prefer to take in what they think is beneficial. Can you share any such examples?

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Feng: Let’s say you were to talk about the topic of ‘idol’, first you ask them to identify the idols in their lives, and you also tell them that ‘idols’ are lies, they just enslave people, and only the Cross of Jesus can set people free.

Usually, when the Chinese students hear this, most of them would examine the idols in their lives, but they tend to stop there without making a connection with the redemption of Christ. Instead they turn to their own ways, such as becoming more positive and more willing to let go to solve their problem. For example, some people see money as their idol, so when they face a financial deficit, they would comfort themselves in a positive way, thinking that they can not be enslaved by money, a loss is a loss, one still has friends, family, and health; and their focus can be placed on these things for now. In addition, there will be opportunities later to earn even more money. But this kind of positive and healthy thinking actually prevents them from knowing the essence of the gospel.

Q: Do you find it easy to make friends with them? How do you usually interact with them?

Feng: This group of students I mentioned are very easy to be friends with, especially if you have an accommodating and accepting attitude, it doesn’t take long for mutual trust to build up. But at the same time we are all aware that there are certain ‘sensitive areas’ we do not want to touch in our conversations.

Q: What kind of ‘sensitive areas’?

Feng: The ‘sensitive area’ topics are mainly questions like: Are you living a God-centred life? What is your attitude toward God’s judgement, and what are your views about eternal life and hell and so on. Among Christians, we can easily reach common ground when we talk about these topics. But it is very difficult to answer these questions for these Chinese students who are only outwardly learning to be Christians.

Q: What are their reactions in these situations?

Feng: These situations would lead to embarrassment and awkwardness. They would blame you for being

too extreme, not knowing how to be accommodating and not being as accepting as they are. If it gets serious, it could create a huge rift in the friendship that wasn’t easy to build in the first place, and could also affect their likelihood to attend future church activities.

Q: So how do you handle these situations?

Feng: For the sake of the friendship and that they would continue coming to church, I’d take a step back, thinking that perhaps one day, the Holy Spirit will open their hearts. I have no doubt about the power of the Holy Spirit, because if it wasn’t for the work of the Holy Spirit, I would not have been able to accept Jesus. As Christ’ followers and servants, what we should care about is whether we are sharing the whole gospel, the gospel that Christ commissioned us to share. Would we for fear of offending others, or in order to stay on good terms with people or fear of how others view us, avoid talking about important aspects of the gospel such as sin, judgment and hell? These situations provide opportunities for us to reflect on our spiritual life and our dependency on God: Do I care more about what my friends think of me, or how God sees me? Am I God fearing or compromising for people?

Editor ’s note: This short interview is just a start in helping us to understand these students. The questions Feng raised at the end are challenging to all Christians. Perhaps you also have friends like them; they seem to have come so close to accepting Christ, but at the end they just brush past the gospel. May we all have a heart to pray for people like them. May God grant us the faith and wisdom to handle these situations, so that His name may be glorified.

Debbie made several trips to China to visit Chinese returnees, and to encourage them in their walk with the Lord.

Debbie is from Cornerstone Church in Nottingham. She spent 7 years as a Friends International staff worker there, meeting Chinese people and introducing them to Christ and the Bible. During those years, she made several trips to China to visit her Chinese friends, to encourage them in their walk with the Lord and to learn about life in China. As a local English Christian loving Chinese people, Debbie provided us with another different angle to understand more about these Chinese students.

Students from China have different stories and personalities. However, they do share some common characteristics. University students are often very driven; they have to be as they must survive the competitive Chinese education system in order to get here! Life has been totally focussed on getting to the next level.

Relationships with parents continue to be highly

influential whether they are happy or strained. Many seek security, knowingly or otherwise: they look for it in the material trappings, status and parental approval that a well-paid job brings; or they seek it in intimate relationships. Some are excited about being abroad, others are disappointed, and many feel lonely. They really value making friends and practising English… often that is how they meet Christians.

Over the past fifteen years some things have changed whilst others have not. There are now many younger students, undergraduates and ‘A’ level students; some of them are children of a growing class of wealthy businesspeople. As only children, some struggle with practicalities of daily living, like housework; some buy cars but hit trouble with UK driving law. Many study very hard, battling with English, spending spare time with other young Chinese, shopping, eating and playing Internet games. This group seems unaware of anything beyond the material.

Some postgraduates and others are more aware of larger issues. They want to travel and discuss cultural similarities and differences. Back in the 1990s, the majority of Chinese students and scholars could remember the

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HONG KONG OFFICE Cultural Revolution; they were seeking answers after the collapse of Mao’s c o m m u n i s m . To d a y, t h e increased affluence has apparently filled the void for many. However, underneath the veneer of determination may lie deep hurt. Recently, conducting life-story interviews with returnees in China, I was stunned to find that over a third (all in their 30s) had very troubled childhoods. One told me that many Chinese students have ‘broken hearts’.

I have made four trips to China, visiting seventy returnees. We need to understand better the challenges and opportunities new believers face back home. These are found in the family, the workplace, in the relationship between state and church and in the relentless drive for position and material possession. As followers of Christ they face many obstacles and have much to offer.

To help, we must understand what is happening with the Chinese students who attend our churches and join our Bible study groups. They love the music, our warm atmosphere, our friendship and the moral teaching. They may sincerely say they believe in Jesus, but that ‘belief’ may not include understanding that Jesus is a real God who loves and has claims over them. It may be a realisation that he existed (as did Confucius) and a desire to please new Christian friends. Someone may strongly identify with people and practices, which they see as Christianity (especially when away from home), without having repented and accepted Christ as Saviour and Lord.

Some revel in God’s love but do not understand his authority. Others strive for obedience, which may be originated from Confucian ideas of child-parent relationships, but not knowing God’s love. We must convey God’s Fatherhood: his love and forgiveness and his authority and justice; and the difference between God’s Fatherhood and limited human fatherhood. We must communicate God’s grace. Above all, we must help our Chinese friends to personally experience God. I strongly believe that it is not a coincidence that the Lord sent so many Chinese students abroad in recent decades. Rather, it is a great opportunity to share the gospel and God’s love with this unreached group on our doorstep. May all of us seize this opportunity!

Rev Tang Chi-Ming

Editor’s note: In 2007, Debbie started doctoral research about Chinese postgraduates who became Christians whilst studying in the UK. Part of her research included a series of life-story interviews with returnees in China. As a result, Debbie became convinced that local Christians in the UK need to understand more about what their Chinese friends believe, what they take from their experience with Christians in the UK and what life is like in China for those who decide to follow Christ. She hopes to help British churches to better support their Chinese friends as they prepare to return home.

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