In summer 1987, WMU, SBC, conducted a fact-finding tour in China to explore possibilities of organizing tours of China for the purpose of seeing the places where Lottie Moon and others ministered in Shandong Province, worshipping with Chinese brothers and sisters in Christ in churches reopened after the Cultural Revolution, and gaining cross-cultural understanding of China, a country with a long history and deep culture, but which had been closed for many years and was now opening up to exchanges with the rest of the world