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China Mission Base
Mission Bases Home
Follow Eugene and Cindy's Work at http://china.myadventures.org
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Welcome |
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Greetings from Asia's Highlands,
My wife and I would like to welcome you to the foothills of Tibet. Growing up in Oklahoma City (my wife in Lima, Peru), we never dreamed that we would one day call this place our home! We live in a region that is not your typical China. The Muslims and Tibetan Buddhist peoples that call this forgotten edge of the Tibetan Plateau their home have long been some of the world's most hard-to-reach and Gospel-resistant people groups.
The geography of this region is almost as diverse as the people. Within a few hours in any direction, you will find Alpine (15,000+ ft.), Forests, Deserts, Farmland, and Steppe landscapes, as well as a large reservoir (Lotus Flower Lake) and the world-famous Yellow River.
Please know that you are welcome to visit us any time! God has given us a vision to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the millions of people and the tens of thousands of villages that make up Asia's Highlands.
We are constantly praying for God to raise up more workers to come alongside us here in China. Who knows, you may be one of those God is calling!
Blessings in Him,
Brother Eugene & Cindy |
Overview |
The cry of our heart is to see God's salvation come to the millions of Tibetans and Muslims living throughout Asia's Highlands. There are countless villages that have never been graced by the presence of a missionary. There are millions of people who will not hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ unless missionaries go out of their way to find out where they live and how to get there. As a ministry, our desire is to go where the Gospel has not been taken. We want to go to all the places where others have looked and said, "It just can't be done".
 War, famine, flood, heat, exhaustion nor fear will keep us from sharing Christ and seeing His Church become a reality throughout the mountains and valleys of Asia's Highlands. We will preach the Gospel, comfort the sick, visit orphans and widows in their distress, and disciple those whom the world has cast aside as worthless; ie, the disabled, mentally handicapped, elderly, poor, and homeless.
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Staff
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My wife and I are the directors of Going Worldwide Ministries and AIM's China base. We have two children. Gabriel was born in December, 2005, and Ariel was born in March of 2007.
From our home here in the foothills of Tibet, we are able to direct our small team of Latin American missionaries who are partnering with us, as well as manage our small restaurant business (www.snowymtncafe.com) that serves as a much needed platform for ministry in this closed nation.
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Ismael is our very own pastor here on the field. He is from Veracruz, Mexico and graduated in 2004 from AIM's Missionary Training Institute in Matamoros, Mexico. He was married in March of 2007 to Eloisa, who also graduated from MTI.He joined our ministry after his graduation, spent a year in Peru helping to train our first team of Latino missionaries to Asia, and departed Lima, Peru in August of 2005 to reside in Asia's Highlands.
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Our Story |
 After being raised in a Christian home by great parents who constantly taught me the Bible, I finally surrendered my life to Christ in January of 1999 as a freshman in High School. After listening to the sermon "Hell's Best Kept Secret" in the fall of 1999, Jesus transformed me into a passionate evangelist. My high school years were great...constant opportunities to share the Gospel and learn more about the Lord.
During my senior year of high school in Oklahoma, I felt God begin to call me towards mission work. I began to make plans to go somewhere during the summer following my graduation that spring (2002). It was during that time that I came across Adventures in Missions on the internet. After originally applying for an AIM trip to Kenya, Africa, Seth Barnes talked me into joining a team he was leading to the slums of Lima, Peru.
We left the States for Peru just a few days after I graduated. Peru was a blast. We saw people saved, churches planted, and lifelong friendships made. It was also during that time that Seth told me that I reminded him of a missionary he knew who had a large ministry in China. He said that if I was interested that he could try to hook me up with an opportunity to go over and get involved in that China ministry. I told Seth I was definitely interested, and within a week the connection was made. I was going to be in China just 2 weeks after finishing my two month trip in Peru!
After spending two weeks in China, I honestly did not feel 'called' to go back and make China my lifelong home. I returned to Oklahoma to begin classes at a community college near to my home. I had my first 2 years of college paid for, and it seemed the sensible plan was to go through university and then see what God had in store. After my day of class, while driving home, in my 'mind's eye' I saw a vision of millions of people in China without Jesus and without a witness. In an instant, my mind was made up. I had no other choice but to go back to China and devote my life to sharing Jesus with the people there.
I officially 'left home' for China a few months later, on January 14th, 2003. During my first year in China I worked as an assistant for the ministry which Seth had put me in contact with. I had the opportunity to travel all over China and visit nearly 120 cities, towns, and villages. Through constant contact with the people, I was able to become fairly fluent Chinese in only 6 months time. But from the very beginning of that first year in China, I began to feel a stirring to focus my ministry in a more specific region of the nation where it seemed nobody was living or ministering. In August of that same year, I notified the leader of the mission in China that I was going to have to move on at the end of the year.
I returned to China in March of 2004, determined to go where no one had gone before. My destination was a city near Tibet called 'Jade Tree'. It is a city full of the strongholds of Tibetan Buddhism. There has never been a church among the Tibetans who call 'Jade Tree' their home. I dove right into studying the local dialect of Tibetan and getting to know the local culture and people. My plan was to pioneer a missions base in that city, in order to then reach out to that whole region of Tibetans. I was very surprised when, after just a few weeks in 'Jade Tree', the Lord showed me that NOW was the time to return to Peru and marry the young lady that he had placed in my life a year or so earlier. Only God knew what He was doing.
After much prayer and much counsel-seeking, I traveled from China to Peru during the first week of May in 2004. I had two goals in Peru:
- to marry my fiancée, Cindy
- to train a team of Peruvians to join me on the mission field in China
God provided for both of these goals to be accomplished. Cindy and I were married on July 2nd, 2004 in Callao, Peru. We left for China in September of 2004, leaving behind a group of 4 guys (3 Peruvians & 1 Mexican) who would prepare throughout the coming year to join us in China in 2005. My wife and I would go to 'prepare the way' for this first team of 4 Latin Americans.
On September 5th, 2005, our first team of Latin Americans landed in China. The team has changed in the past 3 years, but we expecting the arrival of more workers from both America and Latin America in the coming months and years.
On September 5th, 2005, our first team of Latin Americans landed in China. The team has changed in the past 3 years, but we expecting the arrival of more workers from both America and Latin America in the coming months and years.
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Vision |
 We are praying for God to raise up hundreds of laborers to plant churches among the tens of thousands of Tibetan and Muslim villages in our target region. These missionaries will be cutting-edge in that they will meet the lost people where they are at. Instead of living as foreigners in an Asian community, they will learn the local languages and seek to work alongside the locals as tentmakers. They will share the Gospel as co-workers and friends of their target audience, and will live their lives as examples of Jesus Christ in societies that have never seen Jesus in action.
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History |
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For a full overview on the nation of China, please see the CIA World Factbook page on China.
We are located in what we call Asia's Highlands. Although mostly found within the borders of China, the highlands of Asia also stretch into such countries as Pakistan, Nepal, India, and Afganistan. These regions are primarily made up of Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists. The number of Muslims runs in the tens of millions, while the number of Tibetan Buddhists stands at about 4 million.
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Our Local Partners |
 The vast majority of places that we are targeting with the Gospel do not have a Christian witness with whom we can partner. Some of the towns and villages have not seen a Christian missionary since the creation of the world! Most of our work is truly 'pioneer' missionary work. When we enter a city to live and share the Gospel, we are the Church for that city. We are the only ones who are working to reach the people and share Christ with them. The first local believers will be people that we have personally won to Christ and discipled.
One young man who lives nearby in 'China's Little Mecca' became a Christian last spring. He grew up in a Muslim home, but was convicted of the truth of God's Word and Jesus Christ as we read the Bible together during my Chinese study sessions (he was my Chinese tutor). This young man is currently well on his way to becoming the first former-Muslim Christian leader in this region. He is actively sharing his faith and seeking God on behalf of his unsaved neighbors, co-workers, family, and even his own wife. Please pray that God would give me wisdom and mercy as I disciple this young man (24) and that God would continue to fan the flame in His soul!
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Giving opportunities |
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The greatest financial need that we have is for the monthly support to help cover our food, transport, housing, and utility costs. Our support goes not just to provide for our own family, but also to cover most of the expenses for numerous other Latino missionaries who are working with us here.
We also rely on large one-time gifts to enable us to create business platforms in new and unreached areas. This is a huge blessing! Because without a valid platform, we have no way to legally reside and share the Gospel in these places.
If you would like to learn more about us and our ministry, please visit the following websites:
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