In the past we tried various ways to raise up young people and new believers. Giving messages is not that effective. Even if the message is attractive and they enjoy it, hardly anyone remembers much about it a day later. So we encouraged the saints to attend trainings where books of the Bible or topics was covered in a thorough way, including reviews and testings on what was presented. We also spend a lot of time in home meetings where we try to give specific help to meet the needs of one person or family. One on one care is often more effective than general help to a group of people. Another way we tried to help the saints was to give some of the ones we viewed as more promising a charge, a field of labor, and let them take the lead in that area and try to do something. All these things have their value but still we did not see the Lord's blessing as much as we hoped.
Right now we are laboring to help the saints in three ways in addition to the ways mentioned above. For some of the saints who are available, we have a full time six month labor that we call a Gospel Propogation Perfecting (GPP). It includes lessons to know the major aspects of the gospel in detail, but the main emphasis is in actually going out to bring the gospel to people. We are very much burdened that the things we learn would get put into practice and become our living. The second way we have begun to labor is to have a gospel school on Saturdays for the young people. It is similar in nature to the GPP with a class in the morning and going out in the gospel in the afternoon, but it is not as intense. The third way we are just beginning to labor is with the family groups of mutual care. We hope that this could provide a way for all the saints to care for and build up one another. Of course, these three ways of labor are related to one another. The young people going out are effective in the gospel but it is the family groups that are more able to provide the consistent care to raise up new ones.