Arrested for Spying on North Korea, Illegal in Tibet, and China's Wild, Wild West [China Compass]

After a brief look at our China Compass sponsors and this week’s Pray for China cities, we revisit a few exciting stories from LAST summer which didn’t get the traction I had hoped.

First, we head to Jilin (Lucky Forest) and my arrest on the North Korean border in 2003 (13:25).

Then we trek to Tibet where I talk about the geography and language, and my four ILLEGAL visits to the region, the last of which got a gun pulled on me (29:01).

Last, we hop on the train for an epic journey across far west China’s Xinjiang Province (followed by layovers in Urumqi, Dalian, Hiroshima, Tokyo, and Okinawa on my return “flight” home to central China (45:25).

Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me (@chinaadventures) on Twitter/X where I post new/unique Chinese city prayer profiles every single day. Also, you can email me any questions or comments (bfwesten at gmail dot com) and find everything else, including my books, at PrayGiveGo.us!

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Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Talk to you again soon!

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0:00.0	Welcome to
0:02.0	Welcome to China Compass on the
0:04.0	From the Fight Laugh
0:05.0	Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network.
0:22.6	I'm your China Travel Guide once again, missionary bin.
0:25.7	Follow me on X at China Adventures where I post new and unique Chinese city prayer profiles every single day.
0:33.4	That's a lot better in writing than it is speaking, more like a tongue twister, city prayer profiles every single day.
0:39.4	Also, you can email me any questions or comments.
0:41.8	You might have BFWesten at gmail.com.
0:44.8	BFWesten.com.
0:45.9	You can find everything else that we're doing, including my books at pray give go.
0:51.4	.us.
0:52.2	Pray give go.
1:00.2	Dot U.S. I'm in Malaysia, as usual. I've been busy this week editing another missionary biography that's going to be published by Aneco Press. Anneco Press, Aeneke,
1:07.5	they're the ones that did my, the other book, Borden of Yale, the missionary biography of William
1:12.6	Borden, one of my heroes. And I'm editing another book of theirs about another missionary
1:17.2	named James Frazier. James O. Frazier. It's called Behind the Ranges. And that will be probably
1:23.5	released by the end of the year, maybe early next year. I'll definitely update you on that
1:27.5	when that is finished, but my brain has been in these old missionary stories, and it's weird.
1:32.4	It's like I don't have any stories of my own that I feel like giving right now. So what
1:37.3	I've done actually is I went back today and after the first 10 minutes or so, what you're
1:43.2	going to hear is three, well, three sections,
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