There was a couple who taught in China for a year. It was in a small town of a poor province up north. According to them, every parent they met with wanted their children to learn English. Therefor private entities sprouted out all over to meet that demand. That couple was in touch with a private tour agency which took care of their visa from Hong Kong.
They came back to their minor town and reported their experience to their church. Indeed the harvest field was white, but the workers are few. They presented evidences of people saved, bible study and discipleship classes completed. It was interesting how church leaders pointed them to South Asia. The enthusiastic couple retorted that they knew not a word of that language. Had the church been able to find a suitable language tutor, they would start language lesson that very night. They walked off, deeply diappointed at the throat constricting national policy of short visits to one or two target countries only.
Two years later, I heard that they joined a different denomination and turned to work with migrant workers. Looking at the narrow mindedness of the leaders in the first group, they could be thirty years away from dying. Perhaps the millions invested into church buildings would be sold to be used in other ways as the old believers die. Of course mismanagement of funds could occur in Buddhist temples, Hindu kuils, Moslem mosques or other religious edifice. It really is a human condition, nothing to do with any specific religion.
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