China is a beautiful country. It is spring time and the landscapes are green with crops.

We are having a blessed trip even though weather caused some of us a whole 2 days of travel to get here. Many of us visited the Bible School. The Bible School is important to train much needed pastors. A neighboring province reports 5,000 churches but only 100 pastors. The Bible schools are training Pastors (3 years of study) and Elders (4 months of study), so it takes time.

The rural church is financially poor but they persevere with faith. It takes 8 families to pool their land resources to provide the building site for a church.

The elders report significant and positive change from the existence of the church - families are healed, there is less conflict between people, and even streets are better maintained by the people.

The Elder of this Church asks for prayer for the continual faith of his people as they must seek multiple jobs often requiring long trips to the cities and they are away from the supportive structure of the body of believers.