(ChurchLeaders) Elder Li Yingqiang, one of the Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) leaders who was arrested in December 2018, has just completed his year-long probation and returned to be with ERCC in Chengdu, a city in Sichuan province in China. However, since his return, authorities have begun surveilling and harassing Li and his family, even to the point of threatening to take away their children.
“We came back to Chengdu because we wanted to share in the sufferings of our brothers and sisters and also to share in grace with them,” wrote Li in a series of updates shared through the Pray for Early Rain Covenant Church Facebook page. “May our gracious Lord be with us! May he keep our hearts so that we might always trust in him, praise him, and testify of him.”