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CHINA. Seeking to reach a China mega-city of one-half million people for Christ, the Christian worker hoped that he could first locate the few existing Christians and mobilize them to share the good news. After an intensive few days of city exploration involving Christian volunteers from another Asian country, they finally located a small pocket of believers who indicated interest in reaching others. Four Chinese people showed up for the first training session. The mobilizer struggled inwardly with his own limitations of faith as he looked at the dirty, scruffy men. Thinking that they looked more like street people than potential evangelists, he wondered exactly what God was doing. Taking a deep breath, he walked to the window and pulled back the curtains. Turning to the men, he asked two questions. The first was, “How many Christians are there in this city?” They quickly arrived at a consensus indicating that only a very small portion of the city had heard of the love of Christ. Then he asked the second question. “How do you think that God feels about this?” To his amazement, the men fell to their knees and began to weep. He too dropped to his knees and joined them as they cried out to God to have mercy on their city. Together they poured out their hearts before the Lord, asking Him to use them in the task. The mobilizer knew at that point that God had assembled a team that was going to be used mightily for His kingdom.