Nations

Little Library

            A couple of years ago a few of us from Highland visited Hangzhou, China. It was one of the cities we had identified as a potential site for a new mission work. We wanted to get to know the city and meet some of the local Christians in the house churches.

One evening we worshiped in a house church. Like so many of the informal gatherings of Christians in China, this one met in a small apartment. There were about twenty of us that night. Most were from Hangzhou. One was from Singapore. A few were from another country–American missionaries traveling through Hangzhou.

I remember seeing a small bookshelf in the apartment filled with Christian books. Before the worship service started, I thumbed through the books. These were this church’s church library, their resource room. It consisted of twenty or thirty books. These were the written materials forming their minds and hearts spiritually.

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