Very often, God has called despised, uneducated, weak or ignoble, and frequently illiterate, people to demonstrate his Word is power and spiritual authority. All or most inhabitants of a village regularly turn to Christ. Today, there are probably at least 100 million, perhaps even 120-130 million Christians in China. Many of them, particularly the older generation, are illiterate. The middle aged are often called 'the lost generation' because they suffered so much during the Cultural Revolution, including not receiving any education.
Itinerant preachers are one of the keys to the local revivals in the Middle Kingdom.
As in the Apostolic times, they often travel without spare clothes, food or money, trusting alone in God and his provision on their way to the lost sheep in China's various people groups, where they preach the gospel simply but with power. In recent times, actually only in the last few years, the Chinese house churches have started taking the news of eternal life to the national minority groups. If you consider that the Chinese traditionally distrust foreigners, even tending to racism, and always saw themselves as the center of the world, then what has happened can only be the work of God and his Spirit. The sick are frequently healed, demons driven out, and in some cases, the dead raised. God has used very varied means to call the Chinese to repentance and belief in his Word, including spiritual, political, sociological and cultural factors and changes.