A bitter life brought revival in China — and missions Westward | God Reports
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> At no moment in Shen XiaoMing‘s life was there ease.
> “The entire story of my life can be summed up in one word: bitter,” he says, as translated. “When I was little — bitter starvation. Then as a teenager — the bitterness of my disease. Then when I started to preach the Gospel — the bitterness of prison and persecution. It’s all been bitter.”