Churches in three provinces helped in the fight against COVID-19, including presenting food to frontline workers and opening their doors to be used as nucleic acid testing centers.
On November 9, local pastors and believer representatives paid a visit to the frontline anti-pandemic workers in Xingfu Community, Dujiangyan, Chengdu, Sichuan Province sending them 600 barrels of instant noodles and 690 kilograms of environmental-friendly charcoal, according to the Department of Ethnic & Religious Affairs of Chengdu.
Recently, Liangjiang Town Church in Antu County, Yanbian Prefecture, Jilin Province, sent emergency food and supplies to people who were in panic due to having insufficient food at home. Members of the church gave fruits, sausages, bread, and salted duck eggs to the staff of each monitoring station, special police, and medical staff, who worked in the cold weather.
Suffering a second wave of the coronavirus outbreak, Pulandian Church in Wenhua Road, Dalian, Liaoning, was open for nucleic acid testing, assigning three staff workers to assist in the testing work for five batches of more than 30,000 citizens, according to statistics from the local authority. In addition, pastoral workers incorporated the pandemic prevention and control rules into the online sermons, calling on Christians to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and take nucleic acid tests.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
