Welcome to this bonus episode of China Compass, the seventh in a weekly series that I'm calling the prison pulpit.

I'm your China travel guide, missionary. Ben, you can follow me on X at China Adventures where I share a

new Chinese city to pray for every single day. You can learn more about that at pray for

China.us. You can also check out my substack, china call.substack.com, where I post a variety of

articles about China and missions and missions

in China. I will probably even post the full letter that I will be reading from today,

from Pastor Wang Yi and his wife. But my current latest post on the substack is entitled

Cherokee Theology, the last Words of Dewey Sanders.

Just saying that name brings joy to my heart, because that article is in honor of one of my

favorite men and mentors who passed away six years ago this week.

He's the longest standing member in my home church in Oklahoma.

He was at the time of his death and was just a regular fixture at everything related to men

and ministry with the young people, the kids, and camping and just all the things.

And what we didn't realize about Dewey until after he died, unfortunately, was how much of a theological mind he was.

He was mostly deaf, and so we had a hard time communicating with him for many years.

As he got older, he was in his mid to late 80s when he passed away.

But I guess we assumed because of his deafness and the difficulty in communicating with him that he wasn't a deep

thinker. And so we came across some of his journals and writings after he died. And I was really

impressed by some of the things I found there. And so I put together kind of an anthology of Dewey's

last words. And so that's the latest thing on my substack.

I just wanted to mention that in honor of him.

But today, I really want to focus on a letter.

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