The underground Chinese churches grew by almost 100% in the last year . . .
The Greater China Region of Churches consists of over 3,000 disciples in 18 churches. In order to facilitate mission coordination and relational unity, in January of 2006, 16 Evangelists got together to form the China Mission Council and selected its first Chairman who will have a term of three years.
The coordinated unity has paid off as we see the underground churches in China is about to finish 2007 with close to 100 increase collectively, which is twice the average increase in the last four years, with half the increase coming from the revitalized campus ministries.
The Taipei, Taiwan church witnessed the first Kingdom Kid baptized last year, and with the new zeal of the Teens Ministry, 5 teens have been baptized so far this year, with 6 more making decisions in December.
Although the Hong Kong Church has been through consecutive decline in membership and contribution since 2002, this year already, the contribution has gone up by 13% for the first time. A vision for the next 30 years of “City on a Hill” has also been laid out to anticipate the growth in the near future, as we send out three new church plantings in 2008.