Rev. Wu Bin, a senior pastor of a church in Dalian shared how his church cares for believers during the pandemic in an online lecture. During the lockdown period, the believers fellowshipped in groups and all the pastoral staff participated in the service to make things as normal as possible. Prayers and announcements are also issued at ordinary times. This is the first time that the church established a contact group for fellowship on the Internet.

While serving the church, I have learned a lot from working with some elderly co-workers, especially from aged pastors who have served in the church for nearly 40-50 years. I listened to their touching testimonies of countless times of grace in times of trouble and the miracles that helped them overcome difficulties.

A common phenomenon is when believers share their problems with a pastor and hope that the pastor can pray with them and help to solve the difficulty. However, the pressure, difficulties and pain faced by pastors are often ignored by believers.

In Gansu Pingliang Church, a wonderful testimony of grace is always mentioned. It is said that the mother, brother and son of Sister Liu of the church, being in a coma due to gas poisoning, were rescued by God's almighty power and woke up.

Every family expects to have children to inherit the estate and pass on the faith. A sister shared that her daughter-in-law had two miscarriages but finally had a full-term baby girl as she prayed with other believers.

The name “rural church” is given because of its special location. When we hear about the rural church, we always have some subjective views and think that it has a poor environment, a small number of people, insufficient equipment, and the scarcity of preachers. However, with the diversified development of the times in recent years, rural churches have improved and changed in terms of number, quality, meeting mode, ministry and external environmental conditions. Now, we take this chance to carefully analyze the changes of rural churches from the past to the present.