China Needs Some Missional Bloggers

Posted by John Saddington on Feb 23, 2009

china Wow. Un-beeeee-leeeve-able.

I just read some statistics on how blogging is experiencing a meteoric growth pattern in terms of blogging.

Check these facts out:

According to a set of statistics I consulted, the number of bloggers in China exceeded 100 million in 2007.
Phenomenally-popular finance blogger Xu Xiaoming was the “hit king” of Chinese blogs in 2008 with 355 million hits.
Other statistics predict that between 2012 and 2015, China will see blogs with hit counts of 1 billion.

Those numbers are simply staggering. Can you imagine a single-author blog gathering 355 million hits? Unbelievable. Consider that Japan has only 10 million bloggers.

But it’s happening, and it’s growing, and it’s not stopping. With such a large portion of the community and nation hooked up into the interwebs we need some bloggers who are called to blog and reach into that space.

We need Missional Bloggers in China.

Check out this info:

Blogs actually have a history in China of only five years, more or less, so this pace of growth is astonishing.
Two other points are surprising in addition to speed. First, diversity of blogger identity: both experts and non-experts are active in this medium of social exchange. Second, openness of blogger identity: celebrities as well as ordinary people are open about their identities and blog under their real names.

Wow. What an opportunity.

I can’t do it. I don’t know much of anything about the Chinese culture and I certainly do not speak the language. But I feel that a new type of ministry opportunities are arriving in light of the technological breakthroughs that are occuring around the globe.

Will you heed the call?

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14 Responses to “China Needs Some Missional Bloggers”

Daniel_Berman
Monday, February 23, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Check out "The Heavenly Man – By Paul Hathaway, Zhenying Liu, Brother Yun" especially page 290, about the training of Back to Jerusalem missionaries. It puts a whole new perspective on missional lifestyle in general.
You can find it on Google Books at http://bitly.com/ULltN
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bbrooke
Monday, February 23, 2009 at 8:43 pm
I read that book a few month back. It is awesome to see how God is growing the home churches in China.
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- human3rror
  Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 4:49 pm
  hmm.
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Steven Rossi
Monday, February 23, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Hm. Wouldn't missional blogs be blocked in China?
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- human3rror
  Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 4:48 pm
  what if you were living there…?
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Daniel_Berman
Monday, February 23, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Depends. Are we talking about North Americans blogging to Chinese or Chinese blogging to Chinese…It all depends on perspective, and who is doing the communicating.
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- human3rror
  Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 4:58 pm
  yes, it really does.
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Rodlie Ortiz
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 2:46 pm
How would you define a missional blog? What does that mean exactly and what are some examples of it?
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- human3rror
  Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 4:45 pm
  a blog and/or blogger who engages with a particular stated and explicit “mission”. it can be very diverse.
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Biscuet
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 12:46 pm
It's far more complicated than to just set up a little space on the interweb and start writing your "missional" thoughts… trust me, i live in China… but you can also trust me when i say great things are happening… just hold on tight and fasten your seatbelt.
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- human3rror
  Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 3:25 pm
  Yes. I wholeheartedly agree. To be naive enough to think that that's all it would take would make me look pretty silly. The point was to solicit an emotional (and spiritual) response… to start people thinking about it.
  thanks bro.
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