There is a spiritual hunger all across China today. Religion isn’t filling the gap, materialism isn’t filling the gap, and the traditions of man are empty and vain. The big challenge is to get to where the people are. Many are living in remote regions and very difficult places to accesses. If we are willing to go a little bit further, if we could pray a little bit harder some of the most difficult people can be reached for Christ.
Three years ago we started a church plant among the Mongolians and today this plant has grown three times it size in the last 1 and a half. Just recently my son Jared was on an outreach in Inner Mongolia. His team and him drove over 10 hours to visit some of our convert’s parents to present the gospel to them. Six of the parents received Christ as their personal savor, and 20 were baptized. People are finding their true worth, value, and purpose in life after they receive Christ and follow Him.
One of the biggest challenges we have as a ministry is persecution and pressure from the authorities. It is still illegal to hold a bible study in your own home. You can be arrested and thrown in prison for preaching publicly or handing out Christian literature. Pray for God’s great hands of protection and guidance over all the training centers we have, and all the outreaches that are going on. Pray the enemy would be bound and blinded. In September we take a team into a very remote and unreached areas of China. Most are 0% Christian, and have no one in the church focusing on them in anyway.
Pray God would give us the break through there. We are believing new churches will sprout up in the region, and the peoples will turn from their idols to the true and living God!
~ Chuck Lenhart