The committee members discussed the annual work plan, the research plan, the questionnaire survey, and the common issues and challenges faced by rural and ethnic minority areas.

A very important practical problem is that rural churches lack pastors, or even have no pastors at all. In the future, will there be any pastors willing to go to the countryside? How do pastors train rural natives to do local pastoral work? These questions are worth thinking about.

Pastor C believes that as many heresies of today had already happened in history, it is indeed very important to study church history, but it is difficult for believers to listen to it and there is no suitable opportunity to speak to them about it.

The Commission on China's Christian Rural and Ethnic Ministry held its work meeting in Tengchong, Baoshan, Yunnan.

Li Mengzhao, son of known missionary Li Tiechui, shares his story about his father's legacy and his future plan as a seminary student.

Henan missionary Li Tiechui (50) passed away five days after the celebration for the Spring Festival, leaving behind his family and the church that has grown in his guidance.

Mu'en Church in Hubei Province recently hosted a campaign to care the left-behind children.

The Gospel Times interviews Brother Huang Mingbiao, in charge of Huaien Church, to talk about the dilemma and how they strive to find a way out in a rural area lacking of social resources.

The revival road of the local Gospel and the current situation of Yugan Church.

The Chinese rural churches saw its heyday in the 1980s when there gathered so many believers in services that they had to stand at the door or by the road to hear sermons. However, the development of rural churches has been declining.