Prayer Updates

Control

Posted on 22 January 2010.

"A senior Chinese police official has vowed ‘pre-emptive attacks' against threats to Communist Party control," according to a Reuters report. "Strike hard against hostile forces at home and abroad. Strive to anticipate and prevent, staging pre-emptive attacks," said Vice Minister for Public Security Yang Huanning.

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Christians at Work

Posted on 19 January 2010.

"The Chinese church always encourages Christians to serve God by alienating oneself from the secular world and working full-time in the church," reports Christian Communications Ltd (CCL), before asking, "How can Christians influence the world in this way?"

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Migrant Workers

Posted on 16 January 2010.

"I am a brother from Anhui and now working in Shanxi. My relationship with God is not close because I need to work every day. I haven't been home for two years."

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Spring Festival

Posted on 13 January 2010.

Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year, is the biggest annual celebration in China. In the weeks leading up to the holiday, everyone thoroughly spring-cleans their home, purchases lots of special delicacies to eat and gets lots of practice setting off the obligatory fire-crackers!

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AM-CCSM News

Posted on 28 December 2009.

Our first international short-term team of 2010 is heading to China at the beginning of this month. With participants from four different countries, we ask for prayer for team unity, as well as for good health in the very cold weather that usually hits large parts of China at this time of year. The team will be carrying Christian materials to believers in several different cities, as well as praying through the areas that they travel in.

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Fighting Malaria in Africa

Posted on 25 December 2009.

In recent years, China's involvement in Africa has proved controversial. The Chinese have already invested a large amount of money in the continent and at the end of 2009 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged a further US$10 billion in concessional loans over the next three years.

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Illegal Medical Clinics

Posted on 22 December 2009.

"In a village on the outskirts of Beijing," according to a recent BBC report, "a red cross and the word ‘clinic' have been hand painted on a sign hanging outside a backstreet shop.

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Oppressive Measures

Posted on 19 December 2009.

According to Open Doors, in just four months last year, 178 incidents were reported of abuse against churches, human rights lawyers and believers in 14 provinces in China.

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Ongoing Issues

Posted on 16 December 2009.

The major safety issues with China's coal mines, as reported on several occasions in our prayer updates, still continue to cause numerous deaths and injuries. In the first half of 2009, 1,175 people died in officially recorded coal mine accidents.

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Responding to Headline News

Posted on 13 December 2009.

As a new year begins, we want to take the opportunity to provide updates on some of the stories that we have featured in previous prayer letters. How has the Lord been answering our prayers? And how can we continue to pray into these challenging situations?

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