Ms. Fan Pu, associate director of the Amity Christian Art Center, was born in Nanjing and grew up in a Christian home where her father Fan Peiji was a leader in the Little Flock. An artist well known for his calligraphy work, Fan Peiji was ordained by the Jiangsu Christian Council in the early 1980s. At age 17 and full of youthful enthusiasm, Ms. Fan Pu joined her Nanjing middle school classmates to be volunteers going to Xinjiang Autonomous Region as part of the "up the mountain, down the countryside" movement inspired by Chairman Mao during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76. These "zhi qing" ("educated youth") worked at the lowest level of farm labor. Often they are referred to as "the lost generation" who missed the opportunity for formal education. In her free time Ms. Fan did paper cuts and kept her creativity in artwork alive. "Of course we only used Chairman Mao and other revolutionary themes in those days." After 14 years of farm work, Fan Pu returned to Nanjing with her husband and two daughters in 1979. Before joining the Amity Art Center in 1993, Ms. Fan worked for a company of art design. Her special interests include paper cuts with biblical themes. She has made numerous trips to the countryside visiting villages where Christians are creating their own artwork in traditional folk art forms. Recently she was in Shandong Province, where she found many folk artists in Fei Xian, Zhang Jia Ko and Wei Xian. Some of the villages are in remote mountain areas and extremely poor, yet every one is engaged in paper cutting. Their papercuts are used to decorate their humble homes to express joy and hope in every season. Many of these villagers are Christians. Ms. Fan's dream is to find ways to introduce their art to the rest of China and to the outside world. Also through the Amity Christian Art Center these villagers will find an outlet for their work and gain income to improve their living standard.