Reach International Students
One of FollowOne’s unique and most effective ministries is our work that equips churches to connect Chinese scholars with Christ and his mission. Approximately 150,000 Chinese scholars are studying in the United States today. Ninety-five percent came to America with no prior knowledge of Christianity, the Gospel, or the Bible. These are the emerging leaders of China, the most influential country in the world today. Sadly, the majority of these Chinese visitors will return home without ever visiting anAmerican home or a Christian church. David Aikman, a former TIME magazine journalist who holds a doctorate in Chinese history, has said, “Reaching out to students fromthe People’s Republic of China is simply the most strategically important Christian missionary endeavor in the world.”
These brilliant Chinese friends think that they came to America to receive academic training. Through prayer and the sacrificial service of American Christians, these friends are experiencing something far more valuable —a personal relationship with the Lord of Creation.
These are the kinds of relationships I dream that our people would involve themselves in. I want to duplicate this intentionality of ministry so that our church can be the kind of redemptive outpost the church was intended to be.
— Pastor Dan Brenton, The Church at Tuscaloosa, AlabamaIt has been such a great pleasure and excitement to share the change God has made in our lives. Your sowing, cultivation, and work for God are not in vain. May our God keep watching over us and make us more and more like Himself.
– a Chinese scholar and recent convert, Phoenix, Arizona