Source: Asia Harvest, March 16, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hainan is a small tropical island province situated off China\u2019s southern coast. Once nicknamed \u201cThe Gateway to Hell,\u201d Hainan had few Christians until the 1990s, when God sent a powerful revival which touched every part of society there. Today, Hainan is home to more than 600,000 vibrant Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uniquely, the instrument the Lord used to impact the island was not a Chinese church leader, but a humble American Baptist missionary family, who implemented God-given strategies that resulted in a revival so powerful that house church leaders from other parts of China traveled to the island to learn from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The growth of the Church in Hainan did not come without intense struggle, with many believers suffering for their faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fire of the Holy Spirit fell here with great power, and subsequently [we have heard] numerous firsthand accounts of \u201cpower encounters\u201d against the forces of darkness which transformed entire communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more about God\u2019s work in Hainan<\/a> and consider picking up a copy of Paul Hattaway\u2019s new book on the topic, the eighth volume of the China Chronicles, a province-by-province account of what the author calls the greatest revival in history. I (Marti) just got my copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also Christianity in Post-Pandemic China: Navigating the Shifting Landscape<\/a> (ChinaSource).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In news from another country that\u2019s often a religious battle ground, read Indian State Moves to Criminalize Praying for the Sick<\/a> (Christianity Today).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Asia Harvest, March 16, 2024 Hainan is a small tropical island province situated off China\u2019s southern coast. Once nicknamed \u201cThe Gateway to Hell,\u201d Hainan had few Christians until the 1990s, when God sent a powerful revival which touched every part of society there. Today, Hainan is home to more than 600,000 vibrant Christians. Uniquely, … Continue reading China: Hainan, Pearl of the South China Sea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12807,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806\/revisions\/12807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}