• Chinese Church on the rise

Jin and his partners signed a lease in May 2007 on their improbable new home, a fifth-floor office large enough for 150 chairs, a choir and a band. Then Jin took a step once inconceivable for a non-sanctioned church in China: He printed business cards.In proclaiming his name and number and the location of the newly christened Zion Church, he spurned the label of "underground" church. He describes his group as "open and independent."