Tiananmen Square
1989 was a very pivotal year for the house churches. We started to unite to reach the harvest. On 4th June, the Tiananmen Square massacre changed many people's hearts. It discredited Communism in the eyes of millions of people and was the trigger point for them to seek after spiritual truth (Yun 191).
Tiananmen Square is a place in Beijing where students started holding demonstrations against the government in 1989. Eventually, thousands of people joined them in the demonstrations and in the hunger strikes. However, government troops were sent to the Square and fired on the civilians, killing hundreds to thousands. Consequently, June 4th was the date of when this tragedy occurred, ending the protests. The next day, a man stood in front of a line of Communist tanks for several minutes before being pulled aside by onlookers ("Tiananmen Square Fast Facts"). This was a sad event, but it spurred people to seek truth and someone they could truly trust.