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I’d like to introduce you to Justin Valiquette and his team who are using Pathway Learning courses to equip indigenous church leaders to plant and renew churches throughout Italy. Valiquette is a team leader in his 12th year with Acts 29 – Impatto helping lead and train a network of Italian church planters and pastors. Justin writes,

We believe that the hope for the lostness of Italy is through the planting of hundreds (if not thousands) of gospel-centered churches, led by Italians that truly understand the vision of God for their churches and for this nation. One of the primary reasons that the Italian church has been so unfruitful in reaching their own country is lack of leaders trained in gospel-saturated theology and practice. Or, trained at all for that matter.

Justin knows that a healthy church with effective ministries of evangelism, discipleship, and mercy is the most effective, long-term way to reach Italy for Christ. So he’s committed to providing the best education for church leaders. This is why Justin and his team decided to implement Pathway Learning into their mission strategy – with very encouraging results.

Valiquette and his team in Italy with Acts 29 – Impatto

Justin tells about several emerging church leaders who recently completed the Church Planting Track I courses in Italian.

One, in particular, I think captured the overall feeling of our students – ‘Revolutionary!‘  Another just wrote me saying, ‘This course is blowing my mind.I want to write down everything!’ It has become abundantly clear that producing Pathway Learning in Italian is one of the most strategic things we have done in our 12 years of being here. I believe it can be a major part in paving the way for a movement of God in this very lost country.

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Steven L. Childers
President and CEO, Pathway Learning

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Left: Steve Childers and Wang Yi meet in Chengdu, China on Friday, December 7, 2018.
Right: After police conduct raids on homes of Early Rain Church members and leaders on December 8, Wang Yi begins his 10-years in custody on December 9, 2018.

Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. Hebrews 13:3


After spending more than a year in prison, Chinese authorities release a photo of persecuted Chinese pastor Wang Yi in handcuffs, while church leaders around the world call for Christians to continue praying for him and the church in China still facing persecution.

On December 9th, 2018, Chinese authorities arrested more than 100 members and church leaders of Early Rain Covenant Church (秋雨圣约教会) including prominent Pastor Wang Yi and his wife Jiang Rong.

One year later, after a secret trial on December 26th, 2019, Pastor Wang Yi was sentenced to 9 years in prison for “inciting to subvert state power” and “illegal business operations” where he remains in custody. Wang Yi denies all charges. Wang’s sentencing was condemned by Amnesty International China as making a “mockery of China’s supposed religious freedoms.”

China’s officially atheist ruling party has been seeking to rein in religious expression, including removing crosses from unofficial and official churches. More widely, the party has incarcerated more than a million members of Islamic ethnic minorities (Uighurs) in what are called “re-education centers.”

Christianity Today reported earlier this year that both US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom Sam Brownback had rebuked China’s “war on faith,” while the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) bashed the country’s growing religious freedom violations.

On Easter Sunday Chinese police conducted raids on the homes of several Early Rain Church members and leaders for worshiping online. At least eight people were detained, according to Radio Free Asia.

Chinese Authorities Ban Online Preaching and Order Home Worship Meetings Immediately Eradicated

Shandong province’s two state-run Christian organizations, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement and China Christian Council [the TSPM and CCC, respectively] released a statement on February 23, 2020. In it, they claimed “supervision departments” ordered all online preaching be ceased and churches that gather in secret be rooted out.

With the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, internet-based services have increased significantly among both registered churches and the non-registered churches after being shut down by authorities.

“Please pray!”

Church members praying at Early Rain Church in Chengdu, China.

Please share this need and pray for the people of China and their church planters, pastors, missionaries and churches seeking to serve and love them well during this crisis.


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As millions of followers of Jesus gather in their homes around the world to worship using online platforms during this coronavirus pandemic, Chinese authorities ban all online preaching and order home worship meetings be rooted out, according to human rights group ChinaAid.

Shandong province’s two state-run Christian organizations, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement and China Christian Council [the TSPM and CCC, respectively] released a statement on February 23, 2020. In it, they claimed “supervision departments” ordered all online preaching be ceased and churches that gather in secret be rooted out. See notice below in Chinese and English.

With the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, internet-based services have increased significantly among both registered churches and the non-registered churches after being shut down by authorities.

Along with the restriction on online preaching, the notice also calls on the churches to assist in the rooting out of any non-approved churches in their communities. They’re being told to “positively guide” those Christians in ways their spiritual needs can be met, provided there would be no in-person meetings and no online worship or preaching.

See Prison Photo Released of Handcuffed Persecuted Chinese Pastor Wang Yi

Church members praying at Early Rain Church in Chengdu, China.

“Please pray!”

Please share this need and pray for the people of China and their church planters, pastors, missionaries and churches seeking to serve and love them well during this crisis.


We help underserved church leaders develop churches that transform lives and communities