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Over two decades in China, an Overseas Chinese banker learned to navigate the narrow channels between Sunday and Monday, boardroom and sanctuary, regulated comfort and underground endurance. What began as a professional posting unfolded into a spiritual mission within one of the most complex Christian landscapes in the world.
Across Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou, he co-led and co-founded three churches, worshipping in state-sanctioned and unregistered churches, praying alongside C-suite executives in office pantries, and strengthening faith through suburban retreats. In these cities of ambition and prosperity, he stepped into the metaphor: the Chinese Church is the real thing, but it needs tugboats. Through sustaining connections and opening pathways, these vessels carry the gospel into places beyond the reach of foreign missionaries and domestic pastors.
Together with other Overseas Chinese Christians, he operated in the in-between, through authority and bureaucracy, silence and closed doors, surveillance and system, supporting it to weave its way through.
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Author: For over two decades, Andy KW Heng led and planted Christian communities in China while holding senior roles in international banks. His ministry spanned unregistered and registered churches in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. Having stepped away from corporate leadership, Andy is actively advising startups with cross-border financial needs. Heng continues to write, mentor, and speak about the Chinese Church, the global Chinese diaspora, and Christian vocation in public life. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, a Master of Christian Studies from Regent College in Canada, and a Master of Theology from Trinity Theological College in Singapore.
Across Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou, he co-led and co-founded three churches, worshipping in state-sanctioned and unregistered churches, praying alongside C-suite executives in office pantries, and strengthening faith through suburban retreats. In these cities of ambition and prosperity, he stepped into the metaphor: the Chinese Church is the real thing, but it needs tugboats. Through sustaining connections and opening pathways, these vessels carry the gospel into places beyond the reach of foreign missionaries and domestic pastors.
Together with other Overseas Chinese Christians, he operated in the in-between, through authority and bureaucracy, silence and closed doors, surveillance and system, supporting it to weave its way through.
Endorsements:
For Christianity to take root in Chinese society, it has to be organically Chinese... If the missionary goal is simply to change China, it will fail. If the mission allows itself to be changed by China, to see the work of God in China over thousands of years as part of divine revelation, then it will succeed. The Communist Party will not be moved by what Christians preach, but what they do to improve the lives of ordinary people...Andy’s tugboat pulls us in that direction.
—George Yeo, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Singapore
Everyone interested in the future of the church in China should read this book. Emerging from deep reflection on his multifaceted experience, this book seamlessly blends spiritual meditation, pastoral wisdom, and theological reflection.
—Jeffrey P. Greenman, Research Professor and former President, Regent College, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Andy Heng labels his magnificent book on the Chinese Church a “narrative missiology”. This is an understatement. I found this book to be a scholarly piece of writing, well researched that combines historical content with personal experience and practical insights. The author does not write this book as a distant theologian nor as a historian detached from lived realities, but as a professional banker in China trained to analyze systems and unravel complex patterns. It is clear, concise, and highly readable.
—Pastor Dr. Chew Weng Chee, Founding Pastor, SIBKL
Andy Heng possesses unique insight and a deep curiosity to explore the root causes behind events and circumstances. Through his personal experiences in churches across three representative cities in China, he vividly describes the different situations they encountered and the supernatural workings of God throughout these journeys. Although human understanding may not fully comprehend everything, the author’s careful observations and detailed accounts leave room for readers to reflect, ponder, and be refined in their own thinking. This is a must-read book for anyone who desires a deeper understanding of Christians and the church in China.
—Pastor Chomy Ching, PCKL, Former NECF Malaysia Chinese Commission chairman
This book invites us to look through a small keyhole into the lived reality of Christian witness in China—not as outsiders speculating from afar, but as people being called to deeper faithfulness. For Overseas Chinese, especially Christians, this is a timely and searching invitation to rethink identity, mission, and what it means to be “as innocent as doves and as shrewd as snakes.”
—Professor Saw Phei Er
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