I cannot recommend Sorrow and Blood highly enough. It came to me as a reminder of what my wife and I were told before we left home for Asia with OMF in 1975. Mission leaders said, “a missionary must be prepared to preach, pray, or die at a moment’s notice.” It seems that very little has changed since then.

With decades of experience living in Asia, traveling within China, and meeting with both Chinese Christians and Christian leaders working within China, Brent Fulton has written the most authoritative and accurate book yet to appear on the urban Chinese church.

In Zhejiang: The Jerusalem of China, Paul Hattaway has once again demonstrated his matchless skill as a popular historian of Christianity in China.

Reality is based on relationships between created beings and the Creator Being. Mission work is about human beings who are in relationship with God introducing yet other human beings to Him. God’s purpose is relational. Our calling in mission is relational and training for mission also needs to be relational.

Darkest before the Dawn is a major contribution to the study of Christianity in China and a significant academic treatment to this vastly important subject as the author uses secular and Christian history, personal notes, questions, and interactions with students to crate a very readable guide.

This volume supplies essential information about China’s registered churches by someone who served as a missionary among them for a dozen years.

Every once in a while, you come across a book that you think every thoughtful Christian, and all Christian leaders, should read. Sorrow and Blood may be one of those books.