Personal Letter to Imprisoned Early Rain Church Elder From His Wife

Early Rain Church Elder Li Yingqiang Wang Yi and his wife Zhang Xinyue

Editor’s note: Zhang Xinyue, the wife of persecuted Early Rain Church elder and school headmaster Li Yingqiang (Elder Timothy), in prison since December 2018, wrote him this personal letter of encouragement. 

To read Zhang Xinyue's first letter to her husband the night after he was arrested in December 2018, Click Here.

“Dear honey,

Today I just have one thing to tell you, only a few sentences. Being imprisoned for the Lord and suffering for righteousness’ sake are good things. Go in peace and do what you need to do. Regardless of whether you are there for two years or three years or eight years or ten years, we will wait for you. We will joyfully wait for you.

Last night the children asked me, “How can we let Daddy know that we are okay and that he doesn’t need to worry about us?”

“The angels will tell him.”

I love you! Keep it up.

Your wife

April 30, 2019”


Steve Childers

Dr. Steven L. Childers is the founding president of Pathway Learning, a ministry equipping church leaders worldwide to plant, grow, and multiply healthy churches. Since 2017, Pathway Learning has served leaders from more than 300 denominations across 60 countries and 9 languages. Previously, Steve taught for 22 years at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, specializing in missions, evangelism, spiritual formation, discipleship, church planting, renewal, and leadership. Before that, he spent 15 years planting and pastoring two churches, one urban and one suburban.

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