Lü Xiaomin or Ruth Lu[1] (Chinese: 吕小敏; pinyin: Lǚ Xiǎomǐn;[2][3] born 1970) is the author of over 1,800 Canaan Hymns, popular among churches in China today.
Lü Xiaomin was born in 1970 to a family of peasants belonging to the Hui minority.
[7] Lü joined a house church in 1989, at the age of 19,[8] taking the christian name "Sister Ruth".
The girl relayed the hymn to her parents, Christians who attributed Lü's sudden musical abilities to the work of the Holy Spirit.
By the time that word about Lü's song had reached a fellow Christian with a tape recorder, she had already written 23 hymns.