By Cheng Nuo, China

One day in November 2020, a leader attended our team gathering and then after it wrapped up, mentioned that he wanted to have us elect a team leader who would take charge of our editing work. To my surprise, I got the most votes. I was utterly shocked: I was chosen as team leader? I had hardly any life entry and I lacked the reality of the truth. Could I really take on the duty of leading the team? If problems come up in our work, wouldn’t it be natural to look for the team leader to accept responsibility? What if I couldn’t fix them and our work suffered as a result? I thought about a previous experience I had acting as a team leader. I’d just covered my own back without putting the truth into practice. When I saw people disrupting and hindering the work of the church, I didn’t put an immediate stop to it out of fear of offending them. Read More »

By Xia Yu, China

I was elected as a church leader last June. At the time, I was thrilled and felt that the brothers and sisters must think well of me, and that so many people voting for me meant that I was a cut above the others. I told myself that I really had to work hard to do this duty well, so that the brothers and sisters would see how capable I was. I was really unfamiliar with the church’s work when I started out, so I was really attentive in listening and remember things while working alongside the sister I was paired with, who was more familiar with the duty. I was constantly thinking, “Since I’m a church leader now, I have to do a good job and accomplish some things, to live up to the title. I can’t gain the notoriety of being someone who doesn’t do practical work, who’s greedy for the blessings of status. How could I show my face, then?” I also pondered how to really do the duty well.Read More »