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Thank you for bringing this thread back to the original posting.

Yes Thank you Is2C.

A new Zealand Pastor who was recently visiting us was telling us of some of his experiences in China. He met with a group of church leaders [underground cell church] and said he was surprised to find their were more woman than men in leadership. Many of the men have lost their lives or are in prison. He was talking with a 18 year leader who has led 10,000 Chinese people to Christ and she asked him to give her advice on how to be a good leader. He was flabbergasted.

Two close friends of mine have been in China for 4 years now and their witness of the power and expansion of Jesus is wonderful. The average age of the traveling Pastors in one large area of China is 17. Many travel barefoot and sleep in trees or caves going from community to community preaching to those who have never heard of Jesus and baptizing and then quickly moving on. They get saved and pick up the call quickly leaving families and farms, homes behind only wanting to spread the gospel no matter what the cost is.

Two close friends of mine have been in China for 4 years now and their witness of the power and expansion of Jesus is wonderful. The average age of the traveling Pastors in one large area of China is 17. Many travel barefoot and sleep in trees or caves going from community to community preaching to those who have never heard of Jesus and baptizing and then quickly moving on. They get saved and pick up the call quickly leaving families and farms, homes behind only wanting to spread the gospel no matter what the cost is.

It's good to know that some churches are taking advantage of the opportunity to bring the suffering and persecution of believers in other countries to their congregation's attention. I wish I had heard about it in any of the churches that we used to attend. Seeing this kind of devotion and dying to self is an incredible example (and contrast to what's being preached in today's American churches.) VOM supplies bikes to many pastors to assist them in their travels to spread the word. They also smuggle in bibles that have been translated to their native language.