A training course for young and middle-aged foreign affairs staff of the registered church and the annual working conference of the Overseas Relationship Department of the CCC was convened in Guangdong.
At the meeting held on April 27, United Front Work Department officials spoke highly of achievements made by the Chinese Christian delegation during their participation in the WCC meeting conducted in Germany last year and provided an overview of the discipline and procedures related to religious foreign affairs work in the future, according to CCC&TSPM. Chinese TSPM churches were encouraged to communicate with foreign countries with a sense of mission, crisis, and responsibility and to export Chinese culture.
CCC&TSPM members and responsible staff shared that during the epidemic, Chinese churches kept in touch with overseas churches and organizations through emails, letters, and online meetings and continued to cooperate in Bible publishing and social services with foreign organizations. Leaders emphasized the need for local churches to train foreign affairs talents and study religious policies in order to ensure that foreign affairs work abides by national policies and laws.
Rev. Shen Xuebin, vice president of the China Christian Council (CCC), concluded that to win over overseas church friends’ understanding and support, Chinese churches should continue to do a good job in foreign exchanges, including publicizing the policy of freedom of religious belief in China, the construction of Chinese church theology, and the sinicization of Christianity.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
中国教会中青年外事骨干培训会暨中国基督教本届海外联络委员会年度工作会议在广东召开。
据中国基督教两会，4月27日，会上，中央统战部有关干部对去年中国基督教代表团赴德参加世基联会议所取得的成果给予了高度评价，并就今后宗教外事工作的纪律和程序进行了介绍说明，指出基督教对外交往需要有使命感、危机感和责任感，并要输出中国文化。
各委员及基督教全国两会负责同工进行了交流分享。他们说到疫情期间，各地教会通过邮件沟通、信件问候、线上会议等方式与海外教会机构保持联系，在圣经出版发行、社会服务等方面继续保持合作。牧长们表示，疫情后随着外事工作全面恢复，各地亟须大力培养外事人才，用心研读宗教政策，保证外事工作遵守国家政策法律的规定。
中国基督教协会驻会副会长沈学彬牧师做总结发言，他指出，要继续做好基督教对外交流工作，宣介中国宗教信仰自由政策、中国教会神学思想建设以及基督教中国化的情况，争取海外教会朋友的理解和支持。
中国教会中青年外事骨干培训会在广东召开
A training course for young and middle-aged foreign affairs staff of the registered church and the annual working conference of the Overseas Relationship Department of the CCC was convened in Guangdong.
At the meeting held on April 27, United Front Work Department officials spoke highly of achievements made by the Chinese Christian delegation during their participation in the WCC meeting conducted in Germany last year and provided an overview of the discipline and procedures related to religious foreign affairs work in the future, according to CCC&TSPM. Chinese TSPM churches were encouraged to communicate with foreign countries with a sense of mission, crisis, and responsibility and to export Chinese culture.
CCC&TSPM members and responsible staff shared that during the epidemic, Chinese churches kept in touch with overseas churches and organizations through emails, letters, and online meetings and continued to cooperate in Bible publishing and social services with foreign organizations. Leaders emphasized the need for local churches to train foreign affairs talents and study religious policies in order to ensure that foreign affairs work abides by national policies and laws.
Rev. Shen Xuebin, vice president of the China Christian Council (CCC), concluded that to win over overseas church friends’ understanding and support, Chinese churches should continue to do a good job in foreign exchanges, including publicizing the policy of freedom of religious belief in China, the construction of Chinese church theology, and the sinicization of Christianity.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
Backbone of Foreign Affairs Staff Trained in Guangdong
