The Fangcheng Fellowship (Chinese: 方城团契), also known as the China for Christ Church, is a Christian movement in the People's Republic of China.
Getting its name from the Fangcheng district of Henan Province, it was established in the early 1970s by Li Tianen and experienced major growth in the 1980s. It expanded to become one of the largest house church networks with, as of 2010, an estimated ten million members. If considered Protestant, it constitutes one of the largest Protestant denominations in the world, and the second largest in China, behind the state-supported Three-Self Patriotic Movement.
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- Old, Hughes Oliphant (15 March 2010). The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church: Our own time. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 624. ISBN 978-0-8028-1771-6. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
- "The Pentecostal Legacy of the Indigenous Churches in China". China Source. June 12, 2023. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- Shaw, Mark (25 March 2010). Global Awakening: How 20th-Century Revivals Triggered a Christian Revolution. InterVarsity Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-8308-3877-6. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
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