By Guang Zhao, Malaysia When I was young, my family was poor, and my parents would always argue because of money. At that time, I felt deeply that money was very important, and no money meant no good life. I secretly resolved: When I grow up, I must work hard to get rid of poverty […]
By Dingzhen The Beginning of My Dream In my childhood, my family was very poor, and my mother was always in bad health. Every time when I saw others wear pretty dresses, I would envy them. Because my family didn’t have spare money to buy clothes for me, I had to wear what my older […]
By Xiaomei Once, when one of my regular customers met me, he said to me, “Wow, you look very different now. In the past, you worked day and night to earn money, and looked spiritless. But now, your whole mental attitude has changed and is completely different from before. How did you do this?” When […]
By Wenzhong I am an ordinary peasant. In order to have a good life, I had been working hard for decades, going out to work at sunrise and returning home to rest at sunset. When I saw that my wife’s cousins were always busy preaching the gospel and didn’t earn money, I couldn’t help but […]
By Xiaomei My name is Xiaomei. I’m an ordinary Christian. One day in 1996, my only 8-year-old son died of illness. At that time, I was stricken with sorrow, wrapped in depression and in an absent-minded trance all day, and it seemed as if I had no hope of living. At that time, my friend, […]
By Qainbei Later, we read another passage of God’s words, “In the last days, Christ uses a variety of truths to teach man, to expose the substance of man, and to dissect the words and deeds of man. These words comprise various truths, such as man’s duty, how man should obey God, how man should […]
By Qianbei In Malaysia, every year during the Lantern Festival, many places have the event “throwing of mandarin oranges.” On that day, many single girls will write their telephone numbers or contact information on mandarin oranges and then throw them into the rivers, in hopes of finding a good husband. If some young man picks […]
By Chen Zhi, United States I was born into an ordinary rural family in China. I am the eldest of my brothers and sisters. From my childhood, while I went to school, I also helped my parents to do some farm work. Seeing that my parents worked from dawn to night every day but still […]
By Xiaoxia I was born into a poor rural family with several generations living under one roof. My eldest aunt and my mother often bickered endlessly with each other over the trifles of our family. In the end, we really couldn’t bear that anymore, so we moved out. But since my father couldn’t make money […]
By Jie Bai I was born into a poor family, so I worked tirelessly with all my heart and soul, wanting to get rid of poverty. My father could not work because of his poor health; therefore, my mother had to support the family by herself. She suffered severe headache problems, however, because we were […]