Classrooms are filled to capacity. New Christians are eager to learn the Word of God so they can share their faith with others. Some will become Bible school teachers.

Through Christian Aid supporters many Bible institutes have been launched throughout China. In 1992 two indigenous Bible schools received support and today, steady contributions from Christian Aid supporters have resulted in 132 active training schools, at least one in every province!

China director, Dr. Freddie Sun, travels all over China every year to visit some of the schools Christian Aid is assisting. He monitors, evaluates and reports on their progress, as well as finding any special needs that should be considered. Each of these schools provides discipleship training for 25 to 200 students a year. Following are examples of the quality and dedication that you might expect to find.

This is one of the first schools Christian Aid began helping in 1992. Today it is among the best. They now have an enrollment of 135 students who are divided into two levels – a one-year term and a two-year term. Discipleship training begins with prayer every morning at 5:00 a.m. The training focuses primarily on evangelism. Over the past 16 years, hundreds of graduates have been trained and sent back to their home towns in several different provinces. Some of them start their own discipleship training centers which, in turn, train local workers and tentmakers. With this kind of multi-level training and expansion, it is conceivable that thousands of new workers can be trained in one year.

This is one of the newer schools being assisted by Christian Aid. It is the first missions seminary to exist in China. For the past two years Christian Aid supporters have been helping them get started. Their vision and burden is to reach Muslims, Tibetans and other tribal groups located in the northwest and southwest parts of China. The school admits students who have already gone to a Bible school and who live in any of the 14 provinces located in this area.

The school’s program is unique. Four months are spent in studying the Bible, theology, missiology, church planting, preaching, pastoral skills, counseling, teaching and other related subjects. The next two months are spent in gaining experience in evangelism. These cycles are repeated over and over for four years, until graduation. At the present time they have 35 students enrolled.