College and divinity students in Xiangshui County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province received financial assistant which amounted 29,200 yuan on February 22.
Since February 17, 2021, when the liturgy of Ash is celebrated, the Christian Church starts the traditional feast of Lent, also known as the Pre-Suffering Period.
Recently China Christian Daily interviews Professor Bob Utley a contemporary Bible teacher who is best known for his commentary series that covers the Old and New Testaments to share with us how to do hermeneutics and how lay people can benefit from that.
A pastor prayed in the groundbreaking service for reconstruction of the Lintou Church in Sidu Town, Zhao’an County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province held on February 23, 2021.
We should invite God into our new year plans to stir up our fervor, Beijing Gangwashi Church said. Pastor Liu Lu preached how to plan for this new year from three angles during the last day's sermon: count grace, draw a new year's plan, and take the opportunity to dedicate themself.
As a Chinese saying goes, “A man should get married on coming of age, and so should a girl.” When love reaches a certain stage, two people who love each other will naturally want to get married. But falling in love is easy, while living with another person is hard. After the end of the pandemic in 2020, there were long lines of couples waiting in front of civil affairs bureaus in a lot of provinces and cities for divorces. The daily trivialities during the period of domestic isolation become catalysts for divorce.
After nearly four decades, the first complete Bible has been available in American Sign language for those in the deaf community to own a Bible in their heart language the first time ever, but any project on recording the entire Bible in sign language has not started in China. There is still much work to be done for the deaf ministry. "It was unrealistic for me alone to teach them the Bible as more deaf people in the countryside would come to Christ. Mature co-workers would not be developed in short terms because ordinary people would be trained for three to five years. The virtual pastoral ministry came to our mind," a committed worker said.
The 94-year-old Elder Yuan Xiangzhong in Fenghua District of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province led the family to do thanksgiving prayers before dinner on February 10, 2021.
Congregation in Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Guangxi and Zhejiang Province celebrated the Chinese New Year through reading and reciting the Bible scriptures, praying, singing hymns, and sending red envelopes with money inside in Wechat groups.
A person holds a cup of grape juice to receive Jesus' blood at the Communion service.
Somebody says Holy Communion is an important way to connect with the Lords' life through feasting with Him, and not a ritual of eating unleavened bread and drinking grape juice, so it is inappropriate for believers to receive it at home by themselves.
Pastor Yu's family and his two adopted children, Tian'en and Tianxin
"At the orphanage, I held him in my arms and prayed. While I prayed, I was moved by the Holy Spirit: 'This is your inheritance.' " Pastor Yu Bandong, a pastor in Sanya, China's southernmost Hainan Province, recalled the first scene vividly when he adopted his son Tian'en. The prodigal son used to be part of a "reckless society" in Northeast China, which was a gang of people who wandered about without clear direction, breaking the law. The year 1997 was a turning point in his life. He brought out a knife to cut someone, while his mother had been praying for him.