A New Way of Belonging
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Kurt D. Selles directs the Global Center and teaches missions at Beeson Divinity School on the campus of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Before moving to Alabama, he worked in China for nineteen years. He is the grandson of former CRC missionar

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J. William Smit
— professor of sociology, Calvin College, child of CRC China missionary Albert Smit
"As someone who spent much of my childhood on the mission field described in this book, I anticipated having my early memories refreshed by reading it. I did indeed find the book to be an accurate and thorough account of the work of the CRC China Mission as I remember it, but — more surprising — I also learned a good deal of new information. Kurt Selles has performed an important service for the history of missions by uncovering so much new information and doing such impressive research under difficult circumstances. Although the events took place more than a half-century ago, Selles has been able to retrieve a vast amount of detail. His analysis of the cross-cultural dynamics of this work is insightful. Anyone interested in the successes and failures of Christian mission should find this study interesting and informative."

Dan Bays
— professor of history, Calvin College, and author of History of Christianity in China from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
"This is a well-written study of a small American mission which came late to the China field but experienced a broad range of achievements and trials in its three decades of work. The author does an excellent job of research and objective analysis of the Rugao mission over its life of three decades. Professor Selles gives us a sympathetic but objective portrait of a small twentieth century mission project that failed,' but that can also provide insights into the history of missions in China."

Roger S. Greenway
— emeritus professor of World Missions, Calvin Theological Seminary
"Readers do not need to be history buffs to enjoy and profit from this book about the CRC's first real foreign' mission field, China. I congratulate the author and publishers of this volume. It will stand for years as the most reliable and comprehensive source of information and missiological interpretation about a chapter in CRC history that for most of us has been largely a mystery."

Kevin Xiyi Yao
— professor of church history, China Graduate School of Theology, Hong Kong, and author of The Fundamentalist Movement among Protestant Missionaries in China, 1920-1937
"In a field still dominated by commonplaces and grand theories, Selles's meticulous dissection and in-depth examination of almost every aspect of the CRC's China mission of the twentieth century is thought provoking and much needed. This study offers the China mission scholars and students a rare opportunity to observe closely the history of Christian mission in China at a micro level."

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“A touching tribute to the tenacious fidelity of almost forty Christian Reformed Church missionaries who labored for three decades in Eastern china. . . . Well-written and easily readable, the book narrates the many trials and tribulations, as well as the very occasional successful achievements and joys, of a small band of CRC missioners, who sought to implant their Christian faith in China, albeit in the context of one of the most tumultuous periods of Chinese history.”
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