My name is _____, and if there was one picture that describes my former life, it would be a boat going down a river with a big hole in the bottom of the boat. I was slowly sinking in my sin and my addiction. Someone asked me what was really in the bottle of booze that I put to my mouth every day. I could only answer pain, misery, jail time, beatings and the loss of everything that was important to me.

A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending church services regularly, stopped coming to church. After several weeks of this absenteeism, the pastor decided that he would make a visit to the delinquent.
 
When the pastor made the call on him, it was a chilly evening. The preacher found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing and crackling fire in the fireplace. Already having guessed the reason for the pastor’s visit, the man welcomed him and led him to a comfortable chair near the fireplace.

The American Bible Society tells us that 22% of the world’s population lives in China. And 1/3 of the world’s non-Christians also live in China. The actual number of Christians in China is difficult to be precise about. We are told from unofficial sources that the number can range from 20 million Protestants and 6 million Catholics to as many as 90 million collectively.