July 2025
News from China
In the past I haven’t reported much on events in the areas where Chinese people live, but this July 2025 issue marks this new addition. You will learn in this issue one event and one news from China, while many Americans set out for their Summer vacation.
A Natural Disaster
This week a natural disaster made the news from China. Excessive rain in Rong Jiang city, Gui Zhou province, China, late June has caused the worst flood in seventy years. The disaster areas estimated an average of 7.8 inches of rain from June 22 to 24, a few areas recorded 11.7 inches of precipitation in three days. Some say that this amount of rain is a once every thousand years phenomenon. What makes it worse is that the precipitation continues this week according to the forecast.
After excessive rain the flood follows. Muddy water rushes down the hills and floods the cities and villages rapidly. Swollen rivers delay the recession of flood water, paralyze transportation systems, and slowing down the rescue and restoration efforts. Two elderly ladies stood crying on the road of their village as the yellow flood waters covered six inches of their legs. There is no visibility of where the roads are. Many victims report that they didn’t have time to respond because of the fast accumulation of water.
Climate change is the main cause of severe flood of such magnitude, according to Weather Bureau of China. Until the waters subside, government disaster relief can’t function in its full capacity in the flood zone. Some flooded areas are not fully accessible by the rescue equipment. Precipitations are likely to continue in the region according to the forecast.
In the past, in our broadcast we prayed for the victims when disasters occur. Please join us to pray for the flood victims of China. “Father, in ways only you can do, please stop the precipitation in the region. May the recession of flood water occur quickly and enable rescue professionals to reach the victims. May people in the flooded areas have access to food and drinking water. As restoration efforts begin, Father, please protect the people’s safety and health. Please prohibit the outbreak of infectious disease. May your peace permeate the hearts of victims, government officials, and the rescue professionals. In Jesus Name!”
Military Parade on September 3rd
The Chinese government announced that China will hold a Military Parade on September 3rd this year. The last military parade took place on October 1st 2019, the National Day of China. This year the parade will be held in celebration of the end of World War Two. September 3rd, eighty years ago, Japan officially signed the agreement of total surrender. While the Japanese attack on Pearl Harber led to the United States’ involvement in World War Two, China was at war against the Japanese invasion on July 7th, 1937. The war lasted for eight years.
The war caused a deep wound among many Asian people eighty-five years old above, including the Chinese and the Koreans. Estimate death of Asians during World War Two were between 17 and 27 million people. The more the Japanese people devote to forgetting about this dark page of history, the louder the protests among Asian countries. While reading my father-in-law’s memoir, sadly I sensed an anger very deep in his soul toward the Japanese ambition to dominate Asia. This haunting wound continues to create challenges to the relationships between Japan and her neighboring countries. Unfortunately, it is that same emotion which leads to the decision on the date for the upcoming national military parade in China.
Human history often reveals mistakes made by humanity. It confirms human recognition of the need for salvation, a wish human beings can only dream for, yet unable to achieve with their own might. Fortunately, the Creator God has sent his son, Jesus Christ, and his Holy Spirit to make salvation an accessible reality. While many will observe the military parade, a few will remember the hurt. I invite you to join in prayer in the name of the prince of peace for the peace, healing, and salvation that men worldwide deeply desire.
“Heavenly Father, you created everything in love. You mark every day with numerous thoughts on behalf of our best interests. In you there is no darkness and you make everything beautiful. Our desire is of you. We are sorry that we fall short of your glory. While sins continue piling up daily which makes you sad and hurt people you created, we thank you for hearing our cry and for sending our savior, your son, Jesus Christ. Please help your church to proclaim the gospel of Jesus with greater zeal every day. Please help World Christian Broadcasting to send out daily broadcast with greater dedication. May you help us to produce better radio program each day. May you keep our donors, their family members, in your care. Please bless them with greater blessings. May you, on daily basis, enable more people to listen to our broadcast and to visit our websites and social media. May more people around the world join Jesus to love you and to love one another because of the works of your hands daily, including your ministry through WCB. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen!”
June 2025
Summer is near. Schools are closed. Children are home. Families are planning on vacation. We pray that you and your children will have a great time. As family needs are on the front burner during Summer break, World Christian Broadcasting continues daily broadcasts to listeners all around the world, because people need the Lord in all seasons. Your prayers are very much needed throughout the Summer. Here is a review of our main thrust of program production in 2025. They are listed here so that you could keep our program production and their impacts on listeners in your prayers.
Our program will focus on the life of Jesus whose life ushers grace and truth of God into humanity. The calling of Jesus enables listeners to understand that peace, joy, and hope are not something we wait and see, but the fruit of our active pursuing and living the life of Jesus. Listeners and website visitors will hear many true stories of the lives of Chinese people who attend church. These stories illustrate the applications of Jesus’ life in modern China, and demonstrating why and how peace, joy, and hope is a reality very near, if we put our trust in Jesus Christ and follow his life.
However, Christianity is not a philosophy of the man Jesus. Our listeners will learn from our Chinese website that the creator God actually exists, and he actively engages with people throughout human history, including people of the twenty-first century. We put out information of what God did in the patriarch era and in the history of ancient Israel. In addition, we share the works of God’s hand and of his church in the lives of modern Christians. Our purpose is to help listeners to learn about God, what he did and said, so they could know the truth about the living God and realize that Christianity is not a human philosophical invention. Prayerfully, listeners and website visitors are encouraged to decide taking on that leap of faith with the knowledge and truth they hear in our programs.
Our programs do not just talk about God and Jesus, listeners will notice this Summer that Christian life and church activity are also the major emphasis of our programs. God desires people to enjoy Him and enjoy each other through the love of Jesus, therefore, our programs cover Christ-centered marriage and family, benevolent works, prayer life, church activities such as worship service, Christian fellowship, small group studies of the Bible and relevant topics of life, outings, as well as personal evangelism. Since Jesus warns his followers about the coming of the End and persecution of Christians is one of the signs before the end comes, we also address persecution incidences that occur in the world nowadays.
Of course, as many expect, we talk about what Jesus and the Holy Spirit address on Heaven which all humans desire to go to in the future. And, what Jesus says about how to prepare ourselves so that we can be allowed to enter into Heaven when the End and the final judgment come. We want listeners to be realistically hopeful and optimistic about their future, for God desires us to be with Him. We do emphasize the truth for which Jesus’ life demonstrates and in which God wants us to abide. Therefore, listeners will hear about how Christians grow in truth and in love together. These programs are particularly encouraging and welcoming by listeners who are recent converts.
So, as you have just learned about what listeners have been listening through our daily broadcasts and website contents this year and well into the Summer months, we solicit your prayers as you are sailing through the midst of 2025. We need you to pray for God sending more volunteers to help enrich our programming and to help strengthen the financial health of World Christian Broadcasting. We need you to pray for our listener’s opening their heart to Jesus, and for our staffs and donors’ well-being. As Summer heat rises from now on through September, please pray for protection of our facilities in both Madagascar and Alaska. A few weeks ago, we had a bush fires which got into our station property in Madagascar. Fortunately, the fire was extinguished just few feet away from our antenna. For sure, we will pray for you and your family. May God bless you, and may your family have a blessed vacation and summer break.
May 2025
Our Daily Broadcasts are Needed Now More Than Ever
A week ago World Christian Broadcasting (WCB) held our fundraiser in Franklin, Tennessee. Donors from Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, and beyond filled the conference room at Marriott Hotel to listen to the fact that our daily evangelical broadcast through radio stations KNLS Alaska and MWV Madagascar is needed now more than ever.
Among the four hundred plus attendees, several members from Middle Tennessee Chinese Church of Christ also joined the fundraiser as they did in previous years. What is special this year is that several visitors/seekers also attended. These Chinese scholars, whom our church members befriend, enjoyed learning about the radio ministry of WCB; a special means of evangelism which their Chinese church supports.
Senior producers of all eight language services got to share why each one of their broadcasts is needed now more than ever by their listeners. Some of you were with us that evening, but many of you weren’t able to come. Therefore, I want you to be informed as well. Below is the presentation I gave with a few adaptations due to your location.
“Dad and I had lunch one day this week. We sat next to the window. I said to Dad, it’s nice that we get to see afar. Dad added, yes, we can see the beauty. Human beings need Jesus because he brought grace and truth through which we get to see that our lives are so good and unlimited, even no fear in the face of the Devil and death.
That is why Christianity has been accepted well in the past two thousand years, even in societies highly competitive and traditionally suspicious to new ways of doing things. In recent years slowing economy, the pandemics, and changing global politics have added fuel to that competition and suspicion. As a result, restrictions that are applied to Christian evangelism emerge in various ways and in different areas.
Thanks to God we have shortwave radio. The gospel of Jesus Christ can still be heard through our radio stations in Alaska and Madagascar by people worldwide. Yes, our daily broadcast in eight languages, including Chinese, are needed now more than ever before.
Although national policies, such as the tariff, change from time to time, WCB will not change in witnessing the steadfast love of God, the saving cross of Christ, and the truth of the Holy Spirit in our daily broadcast. WCB is committed to be a friend.
People around the world, including the Chinese, will always be served according to the highest respect and to the best of our knowledge and efforts. Not just people of this generation, but future generations as well, for whom Jesus died.”
So, here you have it. As I conclude this issue of What’s Going On, please remember we forever thank you for your financial sacrifice to helping the propagation of the salvation of Jesus.
What’s New for April
In March we finished translating the Redemption Story series and the Chinese voiceover recording. Together, this is thirty-four videos. When the Redemption Story team finishes the voiceover works on video, we will review them before the project is completed. Audiences will find the series attractive because they can see the places where the biblical events actually took place in the videos. Dr. James Nored retells the major stories of how God saves mankind and brings His people back to Him through Jesus Christ, His Son. These series are filled with personal reflections and witnessing stories from the contemporaries which make God’s redemption relatable to audience today. We will post the video series for website visitors to watch. Thanks to Philip and Shumei for their contributions.
As we finish the Redemption Story translation and recording, Voice of Martyrs will be the next major translation project. Most people do not hear about Christian suffering due to persecution for their faith. Most Christians do not know Christian martyrs beyond the biblical accounts. Actually, Jesus and the apostle Paul both made it clear that persecution is a fact of life when Christians represent Christ faithfully. Jesus foretells the fact that persecution against Christians is one of the signs before the end of the world. Therefore, we have sought permission from the Voice of Martyrs to use stories they have reported. With true stories of the contemporary martyrs or their families, we hope to prepare the church today for persecution that we may encounter or for comfort which church members can bring to the martyr’s family. We need to share Jesus’ gospel as complete as possible.
Mrs. Joni Ereckson Tata’s inspirational writing and radio show appear on our Chinese broadcast and website daily. Edward Short helped established a co-working relationship with her and she granted permission for us to broadcast her syndicated radio show in Chinese. Her stories about how God is intimately meeting her needs provides a window for our listeners to get to know God. Joni sends us her scripts already translated, which are posted on our website so visitors can download. We like her writing to be shared with people who need God, the hope in Him, and His help.
In the past month, Brother Gao’s devotional notes on the Gospel according to Luke, appear on our website daily. We like to share Jesus daily so the Chinese people around the world can get to know God and how our lives can be much better through God’s Son. We are grateful for brother Gao’s contribution to our production. He has just finished the notes on the Book of Acts, and now is working on the Book of Romans.
Currently, editorial notes based on the Books of Psalms and Deuteronomy appear on our website. These notes help non-believers to grasp how God blesses human beings. Comments from Psalms point to a personal and intimate relationship with God. They help us to know God and to see how He helps us. Deuteronomy points to how God saved the ancient Israelites and also how Jesus is saving Christians today. Daily editorial notes aim to build interest in Christianity among website visitors.
Again, we like to thank you for your prayers and for your financial support. Our annual fundraiser is coming on April 24th. Please make time to attend and to meet with us. We are in a team whom God assembled for His salvation to be known around the world in people’s own languages. Since we don’t get to see each other, I hope to see you face to face and talk with you at our fundraiser. Please continue praying for our ministry. Pray that God will send more co-workers to enrich our program and to strengthen our financial foundation for daily operation. Please pray for our listeners whom you and I serve daily. May we get to see many of them in heaven one day.
April, 2025
March, 2025
All Things Work Together for Those Who Love God
A listener in China reveals the fact that he has been listening to our programs since 2023. He finds Joni Eareckson Tata’s stories of how she seeks God’s help in times of pain very helpful. Now he reads her comments every day on smzg.org, our Chinese website, with his smart phone. The listener’s daily reading habit reflects how God draws him and other listeners closer through our daily programs both on radio and on our website.
Instead of physical pain, it is the pain from guilt that this listener is struggling with due to a mistakes he made a few years ago. The mistake caused him to lose his job and incur financial debt. He needs hope, faith, and an opportunity to restart his career. He visited a church in China and found Jesus. But, can Jesus help him?
One of their church members shared the listener’s need with Mrs. Jenny, who is a doner of World Christian Broadcasting (WCB). Mrs. Jenny visited her son at the hospital in Tennessee in 2016 after her son went into a coma from a traffic accident. She became a Christian after God answered her prayers and healed her son. She came to WCB for an interview, witnessing God’s grace, faithfulness, and her son’s recovery. After they returned to China, Jenny continues calling them and strengthens their young Christian faith in Jesus. After learning about the need of this listener, Jenny responded financially, despite the objections from many people close to her because of rampant fraud worldwide.
Jenny helped the listener resume his professional practice. His hope and opportunity have become a reality. Jesus has helped his dream come true. To help the listener grow in faith, Jenny introduced the Chinese broadcast and our Chinese website to him. That’s is how he started listening to WCB and connected with Joni Eareckson Tata’s writings.
The dentist also joins a men’s prayer meeting on Zoom. Recently he requested prayer partners to pray for Jenny, because she decided to give one of her kidneys to her younger brother, whose kidneys failed due to diabetes. We joined the listener’s petition, and we are asking for your prayers for Jenny too. She has been a regular doner for WCB for the past fifteen years.
God is working in His people. He summons us for His service to one another to accomplish His will. What is happening with this listener, Mrs. Jenny, the mother and son in China, you, and the ministry that is World Christian Broadcasting is only a tiny dot with which God builds His grandeur Kingdom on earth for the salvation of mankind. His glorious story continues. We are humbled and honored to be summoned to tell His story in our lives.
May God continue using you. You have encouraged us over the years of the hills and valleys of our ministry. You have been working quietly behind the scenes. Our listeners don’t always know, but we do and so does God. We truly appreciate you and your sacrifices financially and timewise as you pray for our listeners and our various needs. Without you, this ministry called World Christian Broadcasting is impossible. You have made it a reality in our non-stop operation of daily broadcast of Jesus’ gospel for the past forty-one years throughout the world. We thank you, and may God bless you and your family.
February 2025 A New Beginning
February 2025 A New Beginning
February, 2025
A New Beginning
Looking Back and Moving Forward
This past week, Chinese people around the world started celebrating the Chinese New Year, beginning on January 28, New Year’s Eve. Family reunions, food, travel, visits, gifts, candy, beautiful decorations at home and in public places, laughter, conversation, memories, etc. It is a good beginning of the new year, 2025. On February first, transporters of different kinds throughout China carried millions of Chinese people back to where they work and study. While the Chinese look forward to new beginnings, so do we.
World Christian Broadcasting (WCB), including the Chinese Language Service (CLS), can’t help but thank God and you for the past forty years. God, through you, has been giving us what we need through the valley to this point in 2025 and beyond. Your prayers have been answered and have sustained our love, faith, hope, spirit, strength, health, and growth. Your support has secured and maintained our daily operation these 40 years. We are confident that your prayers and support will continue because of your love of the unsaved people around the world and our common anticipation of the second coming of Christ Jesus. It is our prayer that God the Father will bless you and keep your loved ones daily, spiritually and physically.
Listeners’ Blessing
Each listener is precious to God and us. When they share their needs and what is on their heart with us, we are encouraged and honored. Last week a listener sent us his New Year blessing for the wellbeing of our staff’s families. He also prayed for the growth of bearing fruit among listeners, that many of them would accept Jesus’ saving grace and be saved.
Most of our listener correspondence set their request for a copy of the Bible and a QSL card. Recently, a listener asked for a shortwave radio, a cross, and a hymn book. He appreciates our daily broadcast.
Another listener who wrote last week to ask if he could contribute to our programs. He believes that he is blessed with gifts, but he needs an opportunity to serve.
Staff’s Transition
Our dear co-worker Shumei is transitioning her work from full-time to part-time work. Her aging mother and the growing active grandson require her work schedule to be flexible. Shumei has been a faithful and diligent co-worker who contributes so much to the wealth and variety of our program database. Even at a part-time work schedule, Shumei will continue to strengthen the effectiveness of the ministry of CLS. May God bless her family as she gets to visit with them more.
What’s New in Programming
At the end of 2024, Mr. Gao completed his devotional remarks on the Book of Acts. Our listeners will get to learn more about the works of the Holy Spirit and the earliest history of the churches of Christ in our daily broadcast. As 2025 just unfolds, we are looking forward to finish the Chinese voiceover works for the “Salvation Story” video project produced by Dr. James Norms and his team.
Please pray for more helps from volunteers in the Kingdom of God for all eight of our language services at WCB. As a radio ministry solely depending on donor contribution, we are constantly looking for God’s providence to add a new language in order to reach more people for the Lord, seeking additional stringers to enrich program depth and strength is a doable and realistic strategy. We ask for your prayers and when the opportunity arrives in your networks please introduce your Chinese friends to us.
A Little Bit of Fun
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2025 is the year of Wood Snake, marking a period of transformation, wisdom, strategy, and adaptability. So, let’s make use of our intelligence and creativity while being flexible and creative, pursuing deeper thinking, thoughtful decision-making, long-term planning, and progress on personal growth and development. May we do these for the common good and for the glory of God.
January: Chinese new year
Chinese New Year begins on January 29 in 2025. Traditionally called
“Passing Over a Year” and renamed “Spring Festival” in 1914, Chinese
New year is the one holiday Chinese citizens enjoy the longest days-off.
This eight-days holiday begins on New Years Eve when family reunion
dinners take place for which it is noted the busiest day of public
transport in China consequently.
Because of the long holidays, more families travel overseas for vacation or for visiting family members abroad in recent years. Chinese Spring Festival has the most varieties of celebrations traditionally than any other Chinese holiday. Many preparations begin days before the New Year for food, decoration, dress, travel, public celebration, gift, etc. It is a time that energizes the entire Chinese society for personal enjoyment, family reunion, social networking, and national economy. Chinese people, young and old, leaders and workers, take actions for personal responsibility and blessing for others or to the community.
It is most important for Chinese to be with family during the Spring Festival. Visitation occurs among family members, relatives, in-laws, teacher and students, government and corporate employers and employees, and friends. Spring Festival is a time of joy and celebration, lots of music, art, and festivities in communities all over China where people visit, enjoy, and relax. Consequently, it is a time when we have fewer short-wave radio listeners, but a good time for us to make plan for the future.
We petition for your prayers. Your participation in Word Christian Broadcasting is the backbone of this ministry from which staff are strengthened, and operations are normalized. We need God’s guidance as we make plans for 2025. We need God for love, truth, and for creativity as we produce programs for listeners. Your prayers are important to us. Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, was officially recognized by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on December 4, 2024. Creativity plays a significant role as we produce the Spring Festival radio programs.
Spring Festival is a time where many Chinese people pray. Pray for a year of good health, peace in relationship, prosperity, and personal improvement. This is what we pray for you also in this time of the new year. May God bless you and your family. Thank you for working together for bringing more people to Christ and our Father in heaven. Have a fruitful 2025.
