The Christian Home

During the first month of 2010, Salina recorded several scripts on marriage.  As in all countries, homes in China face problems and challenges, so it is appropriate for us to talk about the home.  Christian home concepts are not widely understood in China, so we have a lot of material about the home on the Chinese service of KNLS.

In one of her scripts, Salina discussed agape in marriage. Agape, as you probably know, is one of the Greek words for love; it encompasses the special love that God has for mankind, and the exceptional love that caused Jesus to give his life for us.  Salina told our listeners about Maurice and Marie Hall—a couple that has influenced numerous couples for good and for God in the USA, in Europe and in Asia. The Halls not only helped envision and found World Christian Broadcasting, they have been happily married for almost seventy years, so Salina introduced them to our Chinese audience and talked about their happy home.

In another script, Salina explained to our listeners how love covers over sins.  “When someone is acting ugly, said Salina, try to look at the emotions behind his behavior.  Don’t be irritated by him but love him more because love is what he needs!"

Salina also urged our audience to “Pause and enjoy the moment.”  She said that not a few people miss many beautiful moments in life because they are occupied by seemingly more urgent things. What, however, could be more urgent than one's family?

Perhaps you and I need to follow Salina's advice that she entitled “The Two Degree Change."  In this script, Salina observed that there are a large number of seemingly hopeless marriages which need some 180 degree changes.  But big changes are too difficult, she said, so people should try some “two degree changes.”  A two degree change or several of them will lead to big changes.

I got in on the family issues as well as I continued the series on divorce that I began some months ago.  Having read a list of reasons that people in China give for divorce, I am writing scripts that speak to these situations.  So far I've written articles on incompatibility, infidelity, violence, financial problems, etc.

In cooperation with World Bible School, World Christian Broadcasting translated the booklet by Beth Reese, “Do You Know Someone with AIDS?”  Our Shu Mei Lee did the translation, and we are now beginning to send out electronic copies.  I look forward to the booklet being recorded in Chinese for broadcast on KNLS and the text being posted on our website www.smzg.org.

We sent a copy of “Do You Know Someone with AIDS?” to a friend—a surgeon who works in north central China. A few days later he sent me this reply:  “I have read Shu Mei's translation about the AIDS material. It is very good and the translation is good.  Our province is one of top three bad ones with more AIDS patients because the blood selling problem in the beginning of the 1990s.”

We are sorry that it is necessary to disseminate information such as the material about HIV/AIDS, but we are very glad that www.smzg.org and our Chinese broadcast can be useful tools to get this message to a wide audience of people who need to hear it.

Our Chinese website www.smzg.org began 2010 with good traffic. We had more “hits” and more files accessed in January than during any month of 2009.