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Lisu Church is a Christian church of an ethnic minority of southern China, Myanmar, Thailand and a part of India. The Chinese government's Religious Affairs Bureau has proposed considering Christianity the official religion of the Lisu. Christian missionaries had been working in the Lisu area since the early 20th century. The first〔''Mountain Rain'', Eileen Crossman, 2001, Paternoster Lifestyle〕 to work among the Lisu, in the Yunnan province in China, was James O. Fraser with the China Inland Mission, who also developed the written Lisu language and the Fraser Alphabet, which today is officially adopted by the Chinese government. Writing and reading in Lisu has been mainly developed by the church. In some villages the membership of the Christian church comprises far more than half the population, as is told by local and provincial church leaders as well as published by Bin et al. in Chinese Theological Review 19 (2004). The Lisu Church has both the Holy Bible and a Christian hymn book in its own language. The Chinese Lisu Church has training centers, training evangelists, in Fugong and Lushui. Lisu pastors are trained at the Theological University of Kunming. There is a great shortage of pastors in the Lisu churches, according to representants of the church in the area. The church is part of the official Protestant Church of China, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Sunday service in church is mainly in Lisu. Christianity is thriving in the Salween River valley where the Lisu live 50 years after the death of missionary Isobel Kuhn. Of the 18,000 Lisu who lived in Fugong in 1950 - 3,400 professed faith in Christ. As of 2007 there are estimated to be 80-90 percent of the 70,000 making the same profession. In Yunnan it is estimated that there are between 100,000-200,000 total Lisu Christians. More than 75,000 Lisu Bibles have been legally printed in China following this explosive growth.〔OMF International (2007), p. 1-2〕 ==Further reading== * Isobel Kuhn, ''By Searching: My Journey Through Doubt into Faith'', Moody Press (August 8, 1959) * Isobel Kuhn, ''In the Arena'', Moody Press (1958) * Isobel Kuhn, ''Green Leaf in Drought'', Moody Press (June 1957) * Isobel Kuhn, ''Stones of Fire'', Moody Press (1960) * Isobel Kuhn, ''Ascent to the Tribes: Pioneering in North Thailand'', Moody Press (1956) * Isobel Kuhn, ''Precious Things of the Lasting Hills'', OMF Books (1977) * Isobel Kuhn, ''Second Mile People'', Shaw Books (December 1999) * Isobel Kuhn, ''Nests Above the Abyss'', China Inland Mission (1947); by permission: Moody Press (1964) * Carolyn Canfield, ''One Vision Only'' (1959) * Lois Headley Dick, ''Isobel Kuhn'' (1987) * Gloria Repp, ''Nothing Daunted: The Story of Isobel Kuhn'' *Historical Bibliography of the China Inland Mission 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lisu Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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