Joint meetings of churches in the Pearl River Delta region were held in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province.
During the meetings conducted by Guangdong CC&TSPM on April 14-15, Rev. Cai Bosheng, executive vice chairman of the provincial Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), gave a keynote speech on the topic of "Urbanization and Sinicization of Christianity in the Context of the Greater Bay Area Construction," reported CCC&TSPM. Cai shared how churches could play an active role in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area from the perspective of the national development plan for the area.
During the sub-theme speeches, Rev. Wu Zhongwu, vice president and general director of the Guangzhou Christian Council (CC), gave a lecture titled "Continue the Contextualization of Christianity in China and Actively Contribute to the Construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Humanistic Bay Area—Taking the Guangzhou Church as an Example". Pastor Zheng Zhanchao, deputy secretary-general of Zhongshan TSPM, shared a speech on "The Linkage Between the Geographical Relationship of the Greater Bay Area and the Pearl River Delta Church", and Rev. Chen Yanqun, president of Huizhou CC, on "Explore the Efforts to Sinicize Christianity From the Historical Inheritance of the Pearl River Delta Church".
And a lecture titled "See the Sinicization of Christianity from the Perspective of Industrialization, Urbanization, and Internationalization in the Construction of the Greater Bay Area" was from Rev. Lu Hanqu, chairman of Dongguan TSPM.
After the meeting, the provincial preaching team carried out publicity activities on the indigenization of Christianity in China in eight churches in Dongguan, such as Taiping Church, Guancheng Church, and Shilong Church.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
