On May 22, 2010, Rebekah Liu was ordained pastor for the church in her home province of Sichuan, which was started by her mother back in 1988. According to a 2012 report by Spectrum, there were over 10,000 Christians adhering to the Adventist tradition in Sichuan, with five ordained pastors, four of whom are women. Rebekah attended the first Women in Pastoral Ministry Conference in Papua New Guinea in September 2013, on which occasion she shared her life story as she struggled to go from a communist and evolutionist background to a full-time Seventh-day Adventist pastor in Chengdu.
