All but 3 pictured here are young housechurch pastors. Each has started his or her own congregation. This is how Christianity is spreading in China. No traditional denominational structures exist within the housechurch movement. Churches spawn churches. Pastors simply emerge from a cell group and commence to build their own congregations loosely connected to their alliances. The movement is like a dragon with many little heads, which in turn generate more little heads. There’s no place to go to or person to contact who is crucial or pivotal to the movement. If authorities get nervous and arrest a leader the consequences are minimal. Layers of distinction create an antidote to the effectiveness of government intrusion. Uniformity and conformity are not valued but networking is. And while education is valued it is not in order to meet leadership requirements only to build up and strengthen a Pastor/ missionary’s gifts for her work. All the student/pastors here are earning a masters degree awarded by an established, accredited seminary in Malaysia. My surprise with this group was the degree to which their questions were practical. Their interest in and capability for theological thought was very low while issues dealing with church order and government were their focus. It seemed a great burden for them to wrestle with ideas and follow ideas to connect the dots. Late into the course two university students came to listen in. They were bilingual [Mandarin and English] . My work on the “Transformation of Morality by Luther and Paul especially went over well with these two. They begged me to stay in China and continue taking teaching appointments but I refused. My health required a break and the harsh cold in Beijing was no place to get my zip back.