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Young people are the future and the hope of the church, they bring the church vitality.
A church which attends to its youth work well will be revived and blessed. In September's issue of Tian Feng , the magazine of the Chinese church, Lin Chaoqun describes how these words certainly apply to Puqian church in Fuzhou, capital of southern China's Fujian province. Through listening to the needs of young people and meeting them where they are, the church has kept its attraction for the young folks and managed to reach out to many of them with the Gospel message. Whereas some churches do not see working with their young people as a vital part of the work of the church, Fuzhou's Puqian church sees this work as essential and thus devotes considerable time and resources to it. Back in 1990, the church council reserved Friday evenings as a time when church pastoral workers could devote all their time and attention to the Youth Fellowship.