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When it comes to printed materials, several mission groups have started to use colorful books to tell Bible stories and link them to salvation—a method based on materials developed by New Tribes Mission for use with tribal people groups.

OMF has also started to publish booklets containing simple stories from Scripture. Once, when A-chong picked up a normal Bible, he was overwhelmed by the volume of text. When missionary Tim McCracken handed him an OMF booklet instead, A-chong breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, I can read that!" he exclaimed.

Missionaries and local evangelists alike are continually discovering how to better reach people like A-chong—working-class Taiwanese wary of the middle-class church, yet hungry for the gospel. Although the flow of missionaries coming to Taiwan has slowed to a trickle, the needs here are still great.

"We need people who will invest a lot of time into this kind of work, and we need churches to send workers," Tu says. "We need to repent and reach the working class if we want to see revival in Taiwan."

Jennifer Su is an OMF missionary in Taiwan. She is writing a book called When Spirits Rise about the Taiwanese working class that will be published in 2007.

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May 2006, Vol. 50, No. 5