But the congregation of Chaoyang Church just outside of Jilin City, Jilin Province, shows that both ethnic groups can come together in Christian love, transcend cultural differences, and build a church together. Chaoyang Church originally had an all Korean congregation. There are now more than 100 Han Chinese believers in the congregation, crowding the small church building on Sundays. Among them are peasants and workers, teachers and students, and even some army soldiers. While the two groups meet separately for worship using their own languages, the congregation in Chaoyang church is really united.
Members deeply care for each other across ethnic borders, and many activities are done together.
When a neighboring Han Chinese congregation decided to send one of their members to a one-year lay training course in Yanbian, both Koreans and Chinese from Chaoyang Church pitched in to help the trainee's family, which was without an income while the father was studying. Similarly, members of both ethnic groups helped when a Han Chinese peasant got too ill to do her spring planting.