{"id":132197,"date":"2024-10-23T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132197"},"modified":"2024-10-23T18:55:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T22:55:17","slug":"ct-indonesian-chinese-evangelist-receives-calvins-kuyper-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132197","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Indonesian Chinese Evangelist Receives Calvin\u2019s Kuyper Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary will award Jakarta-based evangelist and pastor Stephen Tong the 2025 Kuyper Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award, named for Dutch theologian and politician Abraham Kuyper, is given to scholars or community leaders whose contribution reflects \u201cthe ideas and values characteristic of Kuyper\u2019s Neo-Calvinist vision of religious engagement in matters of social, political, and cultural significance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based in Indonesia, the 84-year-old Tong is well-known in the Chinese-speaking world for his large evangelistic crusades and for introducing many to Reformed theology. According to his website, he has preached to 37 million people around the world in his 66 years of ministry. He founded Stephen Tong Evangelistic Ministries International (STEMI) in 1978, opening offices around the world to support his evangelism efforts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2024\/10\/stephen-tong-kuyper-prize-stemi-evangelist-calvin\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Indonesian Chinese evangelist Stephen Tong, who introduced the Chinese-speaking world to Reformed theology, will receive <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Calvin_Uni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Calvin_Uni<\/a>\u2019s 2025 Kuyper Prize. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/angela818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@angela818<\/a> reports:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hVuZ0UOJRJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/hVuZ0UOJRJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1848852399496053211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary will award Jakarta-based evangelist and pastor Stephen Tong the 2025 Kuyper Prize. The award, named for Dutch theologian and politician Abraham Kuyper, is given to scholars or community leaders whose contribution reflects \u201cthe ideas<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132197\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[505,413,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indonesia","category-reformed","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132202,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132197\/revisions\/132202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}