A little stove is already being fired to provide some warmth. Next door is another finished cave, into which we are invited. There is a table and some benches, and a clay hearth with some cooking utensils. In cave homes, the kang serves as a bed for the whole family. In this cave, it will probably sleep at least 20 people.
Many believers live too far away to go home at night.
They bring their bedrolls and sleep here. The Yingwang congregation is a new one. A year later, there were 70 of us, and now there are almost 180 believers. Even with such a number, building even a simple church is out of the question. Yingwang is a poor area, and people barely have enough to live on.