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By Linda Epeards

This is part of a series on impacting the 30 largest cities in the world with the Gospel.

According to World Heritage Centre, by 2020 one third of the world’s population will live in Asian cities. Because of migration and immigration, more unreached people groups are represented in these cities.

And one church in California is seeking to impact the 30 largest cities of the world with the Gospel.

So Team Expansion is helping this church take the Gospel throughout China by partnering with the Chinese church in the six largest cities in China.

Urbanization in China

It's predicted that by 2050, both Shanghai and Beijing will double in population to over 50 million people.

It’s predicted that by 2050, both Shanghai and Beijing will double in population to over 50 million people.

The six largest Chinese cities averaged a population growth of 19.4 percent for 2015. Beijing grew by more than 25 percent and Guangzhou by almost 30 percent.

This growth is largely due to migration, as people come to the cities looking for work. Because of increased availability of transportation through high speed trains, these migrants don’t just come from the immediate region, but from anywhere in the country.

According to the Financial Times, 278 million Chinese worked outside their home town for at least six months in 2014. Many Chinese villages are experiencing rapid depopulation. One rural province has decreased in population by as much as a third.

World Population Review predicts that this rapid urbanization will continue in China. It suggests that by 2050, both Shanghai and Beijing will double in population to over 50 million people.

By reaching these workers in the city, making disciples among them, and training them to make disciples in their own villages, the Gospel can be taken to villages and rural areas throughout China.

By reaching these workers in the city, making disciples among them, and training them to make disciples in their own villages, the Gospel can be taken to villages and rural areas throughout China.

Reaching the Cities, Reaching the Villages

Many migrant workers leave their families in their rural village to find work in the city. Then, they return to their families periodically.

For example, in Shenzhen more than half of the population are registered workers whose families continue to live in their home villages.

In 2010, 285 Fortune 500 companies set up base in and around Tianjin in northern China, attracting millions of migrant workers.

Believers can reach these workers in the city, make disciples among them, and train them to make disciples in their own villages. Then they can take the Gospel to their villages and rural areas throughout China.

Our Strategy

Team Expansion is honored to partner with the global church to equip and send workers to fulfill the Great Commission in China.

Team Expansion is honored to partner with the global church to equip and send workers to fulfill the Great Commission in China.

When the church in California approached us with this goal, we turned to one Team Expansion worker in the area for input.

Our worker indicated that many Chinese churches are small house churches who lack the resources to train and send missionaries. So the churches are forming networks and combining resources to create centers for training and sending workers.

He contacted training and sending centers in the largest cities in China. Now, the church is making donations to these centers that will support the training and sending of workers in each city.

Team Expansion is honored to partner with the global church to fulfill the Great Commission by making disciples and planting churches throughout China.

 

Read the other posts in this series: Overivew | Japan | Brazil

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