House Church Talk - Re: The Local Church (history)

[David Anderson]

>Okay,
>
>here is another side of the story.
>
>before Watchman Nee and the "age-senior" co-workers went back to China, they
>were in Hong Kong and were praying for guidance in the future.
>
>Witness Lee had voiced his decisive plan to avoid the communists.  Watchman
>was not a controling person, if anyone asked Nee to leave their ministry, he
>would.  And that was one of the reasons Watchman arranged Witness Lee to go
>to Taiwan, but on one condition.  (Most of the other co-workers went back to
>China; all of them were eventually arrested by the commuists.)

     Hi Tim Wai,

Thank you for the inside story.

Watchman Nee is sometimes viewed as a house church "purist," yet I 
understand that he either purchased a building or built one which was 
later seized by the Communists. Do you have the details?

Watchman Nee has a niece named Rebecca, I believe in NY. She sent me a 
nice letter last year. :) 

     David Anderson