Person-formation of Chinese cross-cultural women missionaries from Hong Kong

This study first identifies the issues in the training of missionary students spiritually, emotionally, and socially. By doing so, it constructs an internationally adaptable person-formation framework. Then, it describes and evaluates the condition of the Chinese cross-cultural women missionaries from Hong Kong in their missionary wholeness. This evaluative description identifies the specific focal points in person-formation for the future Chinese women missionary students from Hong Kong. This study advocates the development of the spiritual, emotional, and social wholeness in missionary students as an indispensable part of mission education.; From the identified essential issues in person-formation, I converted the values of the issues into measurable criteria and conducted a questionnaire survey of the target group. I described and evaluated their overall spiritual, emotional, and social wholeness, including the degree of cultural differences and the seniority in service. I also conducted a quality research of case studies on six respondents to the questionnaire survey.; From the questionnaire survey, I found that generally the studied Chinese women missionaries were healthy spiritually, emotionally, and socially. However, they seemed to have experienced comparatively more difficulty in the social aspect. Distinctively, the cultural element of the Chinese national character is a dominating factor impinging on all three aspects of their missionary wholeness. From the findings of the case studies, receptivity to God's healing seems to be the determining factor of missionary wholeness for them, not a broken background. I concluded that in the future person-formation for the Chinese women missionaries from Hong Kong, the issues of intimacy with God, self-esteem and self-love, and cross-cultural conflict management should be examined in detail as to where the missionaries seemed to be weaker. The Chinese national character should be appraised from a biblical perspective.