The Beiguan Seventh-day Adventist Church in Shenyang, China is the largest Adventist Church in the world. It started as a small group of 10 people in a living room in 1985. Now it has a membership of more than 7,000.
Pastor Mark Finley tells how amazed he and his wife were a few years ago when they attended the Shenyang Church in China. This church is one of the largest Seventh-day Adventist churches in the world today. The church started with only nine members and now has spawned over three hundred church plants, with as many as fifty to several hundred in each plant and 7000 members.
When Pastor Mark Finley asked the pastor what the secret was to their amazing growth, he was told it was prayer! “We meet each morning from 4:30 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. to pray and 150 or so of our people come every day. These seasons of prayer unleash God’s power for growth and revival.
“Then Mark asked why at 4:30—so early! The pastor said it was because the people are busy professionals who need to go to work, mothers with children to take care of, and also busy students who must go to school.” So they came to pray before they started the responsibilities of the day!
