A choir sang a hymn during a Sunday communion service held in True God Church in Quankou Town, Fenghua District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, on February 13, 2022.
In today’s era, for Chinese Christianity, crisis and opportunity coexist, which is both the worst and the best, because when the new wine is brewing and the new leather bag is being made.
Since the famous missionary Rev. James Outruam Fraser dedicated his life to the Nujiang Grand Canyon in Yunnan Province, the gospel has taken root in the region but more leaders are needed in an era when young people are faced with more worldly temptations.
In the past few decades, one of the biggest management dilemmas faced by many grassroots churches in China had been how to get out of the patriarchal system. Pastor D, the head of a grass-roots church in East China, shared the experience of trying to localize biblical principles: the grape trellis system.
A poor and disabled person received a bag of rice and a barrel of cooking oil from the charity association of Wenfeng Church, Dongshan County, Zhangzhou, Fujian, on January 24, 2022.
A church in China’s southwestern coastal Guangdong Province held two days’ services to mark its 30th anniversary of reopening, witnessing the growth of the church in the past 30 years.
In mid-June, the Stream of Praise Music Ministries released its 27th album "Let Faith Arise", the album consists of 15 worship songs, and the music ministry hopes the album will show people the power of praise and faith.
A house church pastor based in East China, urged the church to spend time helping the congregation establish an intimate relationship with God amid the challenges of secularization which lures Christians more into entertainment rather than into deeper faith.
Guangdong Provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission announced that 127 persons had passed the exam for auditors of Internet religious information service, saying people failing this test can continue to participate in the upcoming training and test.
"Grassroots pastors need to take care of believers with love, but as pastors, they also need to be loved. So who would pastor the numerous grassroots pastors and love them?" a pastor who has serves the church for more than 20 years cried out.
Pastor C believes that as many heresies of today had already happened in history, it is indeed very important to study church history, but it is difficult for believers to listen to it and there is no suitable opportunity to speak to them about it.
Pastor Mengen Li serves a church located in a southern city where the processing industry is the main industry. Church members have high mobility. In these years with the pandemic, Li has learned lessons on discipleship training, shepherding groups, and hybrid worship.