Prayer Updates

From our International Director

Posted on 30 September 2011.

I was struck recently by the end of Luke 12 and the beginning of Luke 13. The message is the same - be right with God, for life may bring the unexpected.

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Mercy Ministry Update

Posted on 28 September 2011.

"All the children were either physically or mentally challenged, or both," shared a member of our August short-term mercy team. "The common problems were cleft lip and cerebral palsy. There were a couple with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, Down's syndrome, autism and cataracts. We lavished our love on these children. Language was not a barrier when love was involved. These children loved being cuddled and tickled and played with.

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A Dilemma

Posted on 25 September 2011.

"What is the right thing to do?" she constantly wonders. A young Christian believer in her mid-twenties, ‘P' came to know the Lord at university and continues to grow in Him, having now faithfully followed Him for a number of years. Yet that question continues to trouble her daily.

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Xining City

Posted on 22 September 2011.

Immigrants from other parts of China have been flooding into the city of Xining, Qinghai province, and the population has grown from just under 700,000 in 1990 to well over a million today.

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Migrant Schools Closed

Posted on 19 September 2011.

As the summer holiday in China came to an end, some 14,000 children in three districts across Beijing had no school to return to. Twenty-four schools that had served some of the thousands of migrant workers' children living in the capital had received orders to shut down immediately.

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Young People

Posted on 16 September 2011.

While some people are considering the bigger issues mentioned above, others are more focussed on everyday life. So what is the average young person in China thinking about? What are their lives like?

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Seeking Happiness and Justice

Posted on 13 September 2011.

"China's single-minded focus on economic growth in recent decades is now being tempered by a period of self-reflection and discussion about what the country - and its people - should define as important," according to Yu Dan, a professor at Beijing University.

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