Cancel All Chinese Student Visas? / How To Teach Yourself Mandarin / Surrounded in Shunde [China Compass]
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🗓️ 15 February 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). Check out all of the other things we are involved in @ PrayGiveGo.us.
I begin by recommending a relatively unknown ministry (richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/) that I respect and support (0:44). Then we talk about the pros and cons of deporting all Chinese students in the US (9:33). Next, I talk about how I learned Mandarin (21:08), beginning 22 years ago this week, followed by an overview of the unique Chinese places to pray for this week (34:36). Finally, I tell a few more stories, beginning with the fun (also 22 years ago this week) of being surrounded by police in Shunde (43:01). We end with a couple of letters from William Borden (BordenofYale.com) dating back 120 and 112 years, respectively, as he shares (51:20) about the heathenism he witnessed and why he dressed like an Arab in Cairo.
Help for Refugees: The Richard Wurmbrand Foundation
https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/
Cancel All Chinese Student Visas?
How To Teach Yourself Mandarin
https://chinacall.substack.com/p/how-i-taught-myself-mandarin
Don’t forget to Pray for China this week (Feb 15-22! (PrayforChina.us)
Feb 15 (Sat) - Pray for Yushu in far southern Qinghai, just north of Tibet. We lived in this Tibetan region back in 2004, and visited off and on over the years. Qinghai (“Cheeng-high”) is paired with southern CO, west TX, and NM for prayer: https://prayforchina.us/states/colorado.html
https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/the-pub/podcasts/30293/episodes/3
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushu_City,_Qinghai
https://www.asiaharvest.org/china-resources/qinghai
Feb 16 (Sun) - Pray for Xingping City in Xianyang Prefecture, home to the largest airport in NW China (where I was deported). Shaanxi is paired with Kansas for prayer: www.PrayforChina.us
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4s6GcIAfDjfcH5a5RNjAe8
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xingping
https://www.asiaharvest.org/china-resources/shaanxi
Feb 17 - Pray for Binzhou (“Bean-joe”) Prefecture in Shandong Province. Shandong ("Mountain East"), on China's east coast, is paired with Virginia for prayer: www.PrayforChina.us
https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/the-pub/podcasts/30293/episodes/49
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binzhou
https://www.asiaharvest.org/china-resources/shandong/1900-protestant-martyrs-in-shandong
Feb 18 - Pray for Xiaodian District in Taiyuan City, the capital of north China's Shanxi Province. Shanxi (“west of the mountains”) is paired up with Nebraska for prayer: www.PrayforChina.us
https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/audio/podcasts/30293/episodes/27
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaodian,_Taiyuan
https://www.asiaharvest.org/china-resources/shanxi
Feb 19 - Pray for hilly Leshan (“Luh-shan”), a three-million-strong city in south-central Sichuan Province. Home of the panda and many unreached Tibetans, Sichuan is matched with Texas for prayer: www.PrayforChina.us
https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/the-pub/podcasts/30293/episodes/10
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshan
https://www.asiaharvest.org/china-resources/sichuan
Feb 20 - Pray for mountainous Dehong Prefecture in western Yunnan Province, home to a number of diverse ethnicities on the porous border with Myanmar. Home to huge mountains and diverse minorities, Yunnan is paired with Arkansas/Louisiana for prayer: www.PrayforChina.us
https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/audio/podcasts/30293/episodes/28
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehong_Dai_and_Jingpo_Autonomous_Prefecture
https://www.asiaharvest.org/china-resources/yunnan
Feb 21 - Pray for Xiaoshan District, the most populated within Zhejiang’s capital, Hangzhou. Hangzhou was Hudson Taylor's first field of service and where he met his first wife, Maria. Zhejiang (“Juh-jiang”) is paired with North Carolina for prayer: www.PrayforChina.us
https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/audio/podcasts/30293/episodes/24
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaoshan,_Hangzhou
https://www.asiaharvest.org/china-resources/zhejiang
Feb 22 (Sat) - Pray for crowded Zhongshan City in southern Guangdong Province, right between Guangzhou and Macau. We've passed through here countless times. Tropical and populous Guangdong is paired up with Florida for prayer: www.PrayforChina.us
https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/audio/podcasts/30293/episodes/15
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongshan
https://www.asiaharvest.org/china-resources/guangdong
Borden of Yale: No Reserve, No Retreat, No Regrets (BordenofYale.com):
You Have Not Seen Heathenism:
https://chinacall.substack.com/p/you-have-not-seen-heathenism
Borden Goes Native:
https://chinacall.substack.com/p/borden-of-yale-goes-native-a-la-hudson
If you enjoy this podcast, follow or subscribe on Spotify or Apple or right here on PubTV.
You can also email any questions or comments to contact @ PrayforChina dot us.
And don’t forget to check out everything we are involved in at PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10:2!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to this episode of China |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to this episode on the fight-laft-east network. |
| 0:10.0 | I am your China travel guide |
| 0:26.4 | missionary. Ben, follow me on X at China Adventures at China Adventures, 2A is there, where I post |
| 0:33.7 | daily reminders to pray for China. Pray for China.us is our prayer website. Check out all the |
| 0:41.7 | other things we're involved in at pray give go.us. Those links, as always, are in the show notes. |
| 0:48.2 | We're going to start today by looking at a ministry that I like and recommend. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm not sure when I started doing this or why, |
| 0:57.4 | but there's just a few different ministries that I would get newsletters from |
| 1:00.6 | that I thought this is worth sharing with people that they're not necessarily very well-known. |
| 1:04.4 | This particular one is run by the son, still alive, of Richard Wormbrand. Richard Wernbrandt was the famous Lutheran |
| 1:14.3 | minister who was tortured for Christ in Romania, communist Romania back in the day. He was in prison |
| 1:22.3 | 14 years. He literally wrote the book, Tortured for Christ. He wrote the book on being tortured for |
| 1:26.4 | Christ. Fascinating book. |
| 1:28.0 | I've talked about it before on different podcasts. He also wrote a longer book. Torture for Christ |
| 1:32.7 | was really like an abridged version of a longer book that was called Christ in the communist |
| 1:37.1 | prisons or in God's underground. Anyway, he died 20-something years ago, but his son is still alive, |
| 1:44.1 | living in |
| 1:44.5 | Southern California. His name is Michael Wormbrand. He was known in early stories as Mihai. Mihae was his, |
| 1:52.2 | I guess, Romanian name as a kid. He was a young boy when his father was in prison. He was |
| 1:57.4 | a young man when his father was released from prison. And I got to meet with Michael |
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