A heart for freedom - Chai Ling

What a book.  An education about China's history, culture, and mindset.  I was in high school when Tiananmen square took place.  I didn't know the events leading up to it.  However, reading the story of Chai Ling, then commander of the Defend Tiananmen Square Headquarters, shows I probably wouldn't have known the truth.  What began as a peaceful protest, wanting dialogue with their leaders, led to a massacre.  Yet those events shaped Chai Ling for the work God has given her as an adult.  All Girls Allowed is a direct reflection on the heart, passion and desire of Chai Ling to see China free.  Her decision to follow Christ and the ministry that is a result, is powerful.  The book is full of statistics and mind boggling facts about China's one-child policy as wells as the forced and coerced abortion and gendercide of girls.  One line was so powerful to me.  "Chinese women have no choice, and their babies have no life."  Chai Ling is convinced that God has a redemptive plan for all of China.  Male and female.  To save the people and free them.  She challenges the read to ask yourself the question she asked, that changed her life forever: Are you ready to walk with Jesus?  Your answer may change your world, just as Chai Ling's is changing hers.