Don’t Let Laziness Be the Ruin of You
By Xinche, China In July 2024, I was a supervisor of text-based work in the church. Because a leader had been arrested, my partner and I faced enviro…
Reflections After the Loss of My Duty
By Ding Xiao, China In October 2015, I was responsible for video work in the church. Two months later, due to the heavy workload, the church leaders a…
I Learned to Be Responsible in My Duty
By Jinyi, China In July 2021, I was chosen as a church leader. I thought, “To be able to take on such an important duty at over sixty years old is tru…
The Consequences of Craving for Comfort
By Bai Lu, China Dear Lin Yi, I have received your letter. Time passes so quickly. In a blink of an eye, we haven’t seen each other for almost a year.…
A Reflection on Being Perfunctory
By Yihan, China In December 2021, I started practicing video inspections. In the beginning, I studied and pondered with all my heart. Whenever I ran i…
A Painful Lesson From Craving Comfort
By Li Yi, China In late 2017, I was elected as a church leader. I felt a little under pressure because I had never done this duty before, but I knew t…
Reflections After Being Dismissed
By Fang Hui, China In April 2021, I was watering new believers in the church. When I first did this duty, I had a sense of burden and paid attention t…
The Consequences of Being Slippery in One’s Duty
By Lin Ran, China In July 2023, I was making videos for the church. But since I hadn’t practiced for long, and my technical skills were average, some …
A Painful Lesson Learned From Being Slick and Deceitful
By Mariana, Italy In 2020 I was doing design work in the church, mainly drafting. After a while, I found that drafting was slower-paced than other wor…
Why I Couldn’t Brave Difficulties in My Duty
By Li Yican, China In November of 2021, I was elected as a church leader. At the outset, I thought doing this duty would allow me to practice using t…
The Consequences of Relying on Others in a Duty
By Bai Xue, Italy In November 2021, the leader arranged for me to partner with Sister Sandra making images for videos. At first, I spent a lot of tim…
The Consequences of Failing to Do Actual Work
By Xiaomo, China I’m in charge of the gospel work in the church. Once, some brothers and sisters reported that a group leader, Xinyue, was arrogant, a…
Not Striving in My Duty Harmed Me
By Xiaowen, Spain In 2018, I was working in the church as a video editor. At first, because I didn’t have a background in video editing and wasn’t fa…
Why I Didn’t Want to Pay a Price in My Duty
By Chang Jing, South Korea I was working in graphic design, and the group leader assigned me to create a new type of image. I wasn’t very experienced…
What’s Really Behind Careless Work
By Xinche, South Korea A while ago, the sister who reviewed the videos pointed out that the quality of the ones I’d made lately hadn’t been great, an…
The Damage Done by Being Perfunctory
By Xing Zi, Italy In October 2021, I started practicing watering newcomers. One week in, I realized there was too much I had to learn. I had to equip…
How I Became a False Leader
By Sonia, South Korea At the end of 2019, I was put in charge of video work for the church. I felt very stressed because this required skills I had ne…
I’ll No Longer Take a Hands-Off Approach
By Li Fei, Italy In June of 2021, I supervised video work at my church. Due to the increased workload, I was asked to follow up on one more group. I …
