Welcome to the China Compass podcast on the Fight, Laugh

Network.

I am your China Travel Guide, Missionary Bin.

You can follow me on X at China Adventures, two A's there in the middle, where I post

daily reminders, detailed daily reminders to pray for China. We've got a new place to pray for

every day and then one that we're out repeating every quarter in the evenings, different place,

different province. Please join me in praying for China every day at China Adventures on X.

By the way,

X is also the best way to get in touch with me, either tag me with a question or comment or follow and send a direct message, a DM. Finally, pray give go.us has easy access to everything

that I'm involved in, the ministry things, and the publishing, some of the books

that I've helped publish, especially the missionary biographies, my substack, this podcast,

direct links to all those things are there at pray, give, go, dot us. It's been a while since I

kind of gave a little bit of an overview of my China bona fides, I guess you could say, I'm not sure

where that even comes from that particular term bona fides, but my China background. So I

moved to China, visited China for the first time when I was 18 years old. I'm over double that

age now. I'll just say that. And I moved there in 2003. I visited 2002 for the first

time, two weeks, moved there in 2003, didn't know any Chinese when I arrived after 11 months in

China in 2003, traveling all over the country, doing some research, evangelism, helping with some

teams and different, all kinds of different things. There, I had taught myself to read and to

speak Chinese in 2003. I visited 120 cities just that year alone all over the country, 20-something

different provinces. And I learned a lot of Chinese that year. That was really helpful. I learned

early on, I wasn't going to be as useful for that year. That was really helpful. I learned early on I wasn't going

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