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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.

Zhejiang Centennial Church Resumes In-Person Sunday Communion Service

A Zhejiang century church in Ningbo resumed face-to-face Sunday service and communion service, as local COVID-19 outbreaks subsided.

A big empty church.

Declining of Megachurch in Post-pandemic Era: A Good or Bad Sign to Chinese Churches?

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.

A church in Nujiang Grand Canyon, Yunnan

[Feature] Centennial Course of “A Corn of Wheat” That Has Fallen into Nujiang Grand Canyon

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.

Grapes on the vine

Interview: Innovation of Grassroots Church Management System - 'The Grape Trellis System'

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.

Fujian Church Conducts Charity Activity for Disabled

A Fujian Church carried out a public welfare activity for poor and disabled persons.

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Interview: The Transition from Traditional Church to Small Groups
After graduating from a seminary in Taiwan, Brother L returned to Baiyuwan Church, a rural church in his hometown in the Zhejiang Province, to serve in January 2021. He recalled how he led the rural church into a group pastoral church for a year.
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