Every year around thousands of Chinese students come to Australia. It’s wonderful that many are open to the Christian message and respond to Jesus. However there are many challenges to being a Christian in China and research shows that 50-80% of those who believe in Australia will lose their faith after returning to China.
Chinese students are often unaware of how difficult returning to China will be particularly when it comes to family expectations, work pressure and settling in a Church. Our pre-return training starts by highlighting and discussing these issues from a Chinese perspective then strategising appropriate ways to face these challenges and prepare for them. These seminars are about prayerful dependance on God not simplistic answers. The seminars provide a safe space to talk opening about fears and challenges and prayerfully prepare for what is ahead.
These seminars are designed in modules so they can be run together or over a period of time. Each session can take around 90-120min allowing for discussion time. Seminar topics include:
- An introduction to being a Chinese Christian and thinking about returning home
- Family expectations
- Work pressure
- Finding and committing to a Church
These sessions are normally conducted in Mandarin to help the students talk about the issues in their mother-tongue.
Our presenters have experience of living in China and working with Chinese students. We are also able to include content from Chinese returnee workers from China.
If you have a group of 5 or more Chinese students and you would like to host a pre-return seminar or series of seminars then please contact us.