The diet and lifestyle of the average person in China has changed dramatically in recent years. From a situation a few decades ago where many lived in poverty and struggled to even find enough to eat, much of China has been transformed.
During April, a team of young people from the UK headed for China for a couple of weeks. They wanted to see how God is at work in China and to play a part in building His Kingdom there.
Twenty-one years ago this month, millions of people around the world followed in horror as the Chinese authorities sent the army into Tiananmen Square to quash student demonstrations.
A knife-wielding man injured 18 children at the Leicheng First Primary School in Leizhou city, Guangdong province. A 42-year-old man stabbed a second-grader and an old woman to death outside a primary school in Hepu, Guangxi province.
On 27 October 2009, 37-year-old Uyghur pastor Alimujiang Yimiti was sentenced by a court in Kashgar, Xinjiang province, to a 15-year jail term for allegedly "providing state secrets to overseas organizations". The charges appear to result from his meeting with visiting Christians from the United States.
At 10 a.m. on Wednesday 21 April, ranks of residents, troops and officials in Gyegu, Qinghai province, and in the provincial capital Xining bowed their heads for three minutes while sirens and horns sounded.
In February, the BBC reported that, "Notices attacking Oxfam Hong Kong as an organisation trying to infiltrate China have appeared on the websites of several universities in mainland China.
"We spent the night with a Tibetan brother who had recently believed. He and his daughter had been for medical treatment in the city and were taken in by Christians. We had a very precious time with him on the mountain behind his home, sharing communion and stories of what Jesus had done.
We recently took on the sponsorship of another 35 children from poverty-stricken families in rural China. The situations they face truly break out hearts.
There are only a few weeks left to get in your application for the July teams. Don't forget that this time we're offering five different types of teams, so there's a whole range of options to consider.