Church Thessalonians: Church China? - 1 Thessalonians 2

1Thess2:7 "as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children. "..... but the mother was taken away!!
In my Bibles before the main text of each book there's a bit of explantions about the whole book, In my NASB version it says, "Paul founded the church at Thessalonica during his second missionary journey. He had taught there just three weeks when he had to leave suddenly because of the opposition of the Jews. Recent converts from paganism were thus left with little external support in the midst of persecution." The companion Bible version explains, "The church of the Thessalonians was planted by Paul, in association with Silas and Timothy. Although some of the Jews believed, it was composed mainly of Gentiles, and their joyful reception of the message as the word of God was the prelude to active missionary operations in all Achaia and Macedonia, a territory about as large as Great Britain. In this respect especially they were a model church. From them sounded forth "the word of God", and they became examples to believers, showing the power of that word in their lives. The apostle writes in a joyful spirit, for he had just received from Timothy glad tidings of their faith and love." ......
It seems to me that the church is like a baby, and the mother was there for three weeks, then was taken away.
This reminds me of a post of Phil Baker's a while back, "Before going to China I met with one of the missionaries who had been expelled in 1950. "We felt so sorry for the church we left behind," he said. "They had no one to teach them, no printing presses, no seminaries, no one to run their clinics and orphanages. No resources, really, except the Holy Spirit." It appears the Holy Spirit is doing just fine."