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Dozens of people line up to receive prayer from ministers at an inner healing retreat, as the worship music plays softly. It's one of about a half dozen healing retreats run in various locations by Hub and Spokes International with Cleansing Stream Ministries in Hong Kong.

William Yu, born and raised in HK, invests millions of dollars in businesses around Asia. His work schedule is frenetic. One day, he was diagnoised with stage 3 lung cancer and had a 20 percent chance of surviving. As a nominal Christian, he started to pray and request for prayers. Then, a sequence of event led to a total life transformation.

September 26, 2003. Steve Kim was arrested on this day for helping illegal migrants - North Korean refugees - in China. With bound hands and heavy chains on his feet, he was escorted into a detention center in north-eastern China. Kim, a Korean American businessman from Long Island, New York was living in China for several years as a businessman and exporter of furniture to the U.S.

During my recent trip to China as a philanthropy advisor, Ai Jin helped arrange interviews for me with former prostitutes and pimps.

Every Tuesday, Ai Jin and two young women from one of China's underground urban churches get together to pray before their outreach. They're about to walk the streets of a red light district to tell girls as young as 13 who work in brothels that they can leave a life of prostitution.