With that in mind, we launched out for China. To visit house church meetings. To offer prayer, encouragement and training to house church pastors and leaders. To assess the needs of and learn from the church in China. To return with greater spiritual vigor and a desire to deepen our prayer commitment to China.
Few people realize the shortage of literature in China, particularly in the countryside.
A village or small town in China can exceed one million in population. My church, St. Louis Family Church, has about 2500 members. It would be as if my church had only one Bible for every 25-50 people and only one piece of training material for the pastoral staff. This is a very serious problem when you think about how essential these materials are for God's believers. The answer is simply that they cannot.