China’s church has grown exponentially over the past five decades, adapting to shifting restrictions while maintaining a deep commitment to the gospel. One pastor recalled, after the Cultural Revolution, young evangelists were “sent out two by two across China to spread the gospel.” They often relied on nothing more than personal witness and prayer to spark revival. These efforts birthed thousands of new followers in just a few years.

The same strategy is winning thousands to Christ today.

Chen Shaoying, a retired schoolteacher, first encountered Christ in a hospital and got saved. Returning to a province with no known Christians, she enthusiastically shared her faith with neighbors. Within two years, more than 150 new believers were meeting in five groups. In ten years, over 1,000 were baptized across multiple communities.

Exposure to foreign teachers has also accelerated church growth. College students often discover Christ through classmates and English teachers. One teacher recalls sharing his faith in a student’s dorm room. When he asked his student if he wanted to receive Christ, the student declined. However, his roommate, listening from the bunk above, exclaimed, “I want to receive Christ!”

The Chinese church demonstrates the gospel through words, lives transformed, and grace made visible. Charlie Wang, a church planter, explains the goal is “to embody a beauty that makes others long for the gospel to be true.”

Official registered congregations now number over 66,000, serving as visible testimonies to the endurance of faith. At the same time, unregistered house churches continue quietly, persistent and unstoppable, creating a dual wave of evangelism across the nation.

In Iran, conversion from Islam remains punishable by imprisonment, flogging, solitary confinement, or even execution. House churches are routinely raided, pastors arrested, and believers threatened simply for gathering in Jesus’ name. Yet, despite these dangers, Iran’s underground church isn’t withering away—it’s exploding.

In 1997 there were only a few hundred known Muslim-background believers. Today, Iranian ministries estimate between one and three million Muslim-background Christians. From these numbers, it is believed that the underground church is growing as high as 20 percent annually.

Believers rely on secret gatherings, encrypted messaging apps, cross-border baptisms, and satellite television broadcasts to share the gospel. Many conversions come through dreams and visions. Muslims often see a vision of a “glowing figure in white declaring, ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.’” When these dreams happen, the person either knows the figure is Jesus or they seek out a Christian to explain the dream to them.

Converts also testify that in many places, the very attempt to suppress the Bible has backfired. When authorities banned Scripture and warned people against reading it, demand for God’s Word soared and many who obtained it put their faith in Christ.

Just imagine what could happen if the western Church acted with the same courage and conviction! Every gospel conversation, every tract handed out for Christ is a seed planted. Together, those seeds can ignite a revival in our own communities. The time to share the gospel is now—the world is waiting, and the harvest is ready.