Join in and Listen to Worship Music Directly from the Chinese Underground Church

If you were to join a house church in China today and join them for worship, you would, without a doubt, sing the songs of Xiao Min.

Xiao Min has written more than one thousand traditional Chinese worship songs, known as the Canaan Hymns.

Her songs have caught fire all over China and are the traditional house church songs for worship. Miraculously enough, Xiao Min does not have a background in music. She was a young peasant girl when the Holy Spirit began to place worship music into her soul. She dropped out of junior high school and is, to this day, unable to read music. She grew up in China’s Henan Province to an illiterate father and a mother who had never attended school.

If you ask her where the music comes from, she will tell you they come come God and His inspiration in her daily life. She finds inspiration in just walking around her farm with a Bible verse in her head and suddenly she begins singing its words with a Chinese melody. During her private time, she likes to weave words and lyrics together to help her express praise to God. She sings the songs to herself as she walks through the rice fields.

Pastor Zhang Rongliang, one of the top pastors in China, spotted her at a home church meeting one evening and, after hearing some of her songs, immediately felt that she was able to tell the story of the Chinese persecuted church in a powerful way.

There is one song that echoes strongly within the hearts of all home church leaders in China called “China at Five in the Morning”. It was recorded by Back to Jerusalem and distributed to all of the main networks in the year 2000.

We would encourage you to listen to some of Xiao Min’s simple worship songs from the underground house church.  Below, she sings her most well known song: