World Compassion Terry Law Ministries' Focus in China…

In China, we’re currently providing discipleship and missions training through our 300 hour Audio Bible Curriculum (ABC) and China Mission School (CMS) to 1,050 Chinese believers—many who are pastors and lay leaders of churches throughout China.   Church leaders continue to urgently request this training material to help equip believers to preach the power of the gospel in China and lead one of the largest movements of God the Church has ever seen.

Location:

• Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam.

Population:

• 1,330,044,544

Languages:

• Standard Chinese or Mandarin, Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages.

Religion:

• Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2%; note: officially atheist.

Background:

• After World War II, the Communists under Chairman Mao Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's sovereignty, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. After 1978, the Chinese government focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 output had quadrupled. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political and religious controls remain tight.

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