Dear Bill:
I am writing to let you know that the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC will soon be presenting an exhibition on the life, work, words, and legacy of Watchman Nee. The exhibit will begin on March 5th, 2022, and run for an entire year, commemorating the 50thanniversary of Brother Nee’s martyrdom. The title for the exhibition will be, “Watchman Nee and the Indigenous Christian Church in China”.
The Watchman Nee exhibit, in both its conception and its content, is altogether the work of the Museum of the Bible and neither Living Stream Ministry nor Bibles for America have been involved with the exhibit in any way. However, I am also very delighted to report that, through fellowship and coordination, the museum will be providing visitors to the exhibit with free copies of Watchman Nee’s classic, The Normal Christian Life and Chinese speaking visitors will receive a free copy of the Chinese Recovery Version of the Bible. In addition, at the request of the museum’s curatorial staff and to support the exhibit, the museum gift shop will be selling several titles including: The Normal Christian Life, The Normal Christian Church Life, Sit, Walk, Sand, The Spiritual Man, and The Seer of the Divine Revelation.
You may already know that the English Recovery Version of the Bibleis on permanent display at the Museum of the Bible in the section on the History of the Bible and we understand the Chinese Recovery Version of the Bible will also soon be on permanent display at the museum.
The museum is planning a formal ceremony to open the exhibit on or about March 5th, 2022. Brother Wu, a former cell mate of Brother Nee now living in Southern California, will be attending the ceremony to place the last artifact (Brother Nee’s last known possession, a Parker fountain pen) into the exhibit to formally open the exhibit. We expect that several congressmen, media personalities, and Christian leaders may also attend. The museum will be forwarding you a formal invitation via email to the opening ceremony in the coming weeks. If you are not able to attend, please stand together with us in prayer as the Watchman Nee exhibit could not begin at a more poignant time. As discussed in a recent Washington Times news article, the communist Chinese government will soon begin cracking down on all religious and Christian internet communications per Decree No. 17 of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, effective March 1, 2022. The new decree will go into effect at the beginning of March, concurrent with the beginning of the Nee exhibit in Washington DC (see https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/22/china-bans-independent-religious-groups-nations-in/).
I look forward to standing together with you in person and/or in prayer for both the advancement and defense of the gospel.
In faith and love,
