As pandemic situations turned well around the Spring Festival, many churches across China gradually resume their in-person services and begin to hold retreat activities everywhere.
The Sunday school children of Shanghai Moore Memorial Church sang hymns on Dec. 22, 2019.
Due to changes in religious policies in China, the church has had to come up with solutions and think of creative ways to raise children in the way of the Lord without going against the law. Constant transformation in the way of thinking has become a never-ending process in the church today.
Nangang Church in Nangang Village, Feiyun Street, Ruian City, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province was demolished on January 11, 2023.
The Nangang Church, worth tens of millions of RMB, was torn down after the church did not agree with the local government’s compensation plan in which the legal area was acknowledged, while the illegal building area was about seven times large.
Staff members of Jianxin Church in Fuzhou, Fujian, were pictured with full-time pastors in Sanming City who received funds from Jianxin Church on January 12, 2023.
Pastors have always been givers. When people care about them, they will be touched and be much more confident. This is not only material help but also spiritual help.
A pastor in eastern China shares his attitude toward money in today's materialistic world and how much his mindset has changed from the theology of suffering since going into business.