I received an email from a dear brother, Nick, who is currently on a mission trip in China, coveting our prayers. Here’s a quick update that he gave me in his email:
Hubei - where we’ve been doing all his work for the past 10-20 years and where we are this week. The main people we’ve been working with is the head of the Hubei Christian City Council (in charge of all the govt churches in the Hubei Province) and they’ve been the one opening all the doors for us, including outdoor crusades every week in one of the smaller towns, booking a stadium for our band, etc. Sadly, last night, these leaders we’ve been working with just got ousted out of the council and kinda forced into retirement. Not only that, their church has been taken away from them. It’s still early to tell the impact as we liaise with the new leaders and teach them the ways of God so please keep this in prayer. But apparently there’s some politics going on in the church already, people turning people in to the Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB) and apparently we were turned in too! The RAB didn’t wanna care about us but because somebody reported us, they had to come on Sunday to film our services (we actually praised God for that - that they can hear the word of God, ha ha ha)
Hunan - Mao Ze Dong’s hometown. Apparently more than 2000+ govt churches changed their worship styles after my last trip there (think you remember the last testimony I sent out on this one where even the govt officials were touched in our worship sessions) and the Hunan Christian City Council (head of all the govt churches in Hunan) kinda want me back there to teach for 1 year *gulps* (I’m trying to see if I can arrange anybody else to go)
Personally I’ve been doing back to back leading worship and teaching Praise and worship to the church, to their bible training centre, their Christian School (called ‘the Ark’) and to their seminary (all in Hubei) for the past 2 days from dawn to dusk literally (6am to 10pm everyday). The pollution here is not good for my voice I remember last time I came I fell really sick by the end of the week (which was also spiritual warfare) so covet your prayers there.
Please pray for the missionaries, and the Church in China.
Nick, here’s an encouragement for you that I hope you’ll be able to see all the way in Wuhan.
The LORD bless and keep you safe.
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Tags: China, Church, Gospel, Missionary, Prayers
12 Comments
Will certainly do Brother, Nice to let us know.
Godbless you Isaiah and Karen and keep you safe in Jesus Mighty Name AMen
Is it really wise to reveal so much of where you actually are ministering in China?
@Daniel Chew -
I think it should be okay.
@channelofhealing -
Thank you for the prayers and the blessings, my good sister.
God bless you and everyone at home too!
@Isaiah -
What I mean is, I don’t exactly trust the government not to monitor your movements and it’s for sure that probably you are working with the 3SPM and not the underground churches otherwise there would be a crackdown.
@Daniel Chew -
Brother, I have no doubt that your concern might actually be valid. I’ll ask Nick if it’d be alright to do so and remove the references if he expresses the same concerns.
Thank you for highlighting this.
The video is very interesting; made by Hong Kong Campus Crusade for Christ. And the song has an interesting history too. But yes, 我们要看到一个宣教的中国！
@Daniel Chew -
Do you know the history behind the song? I’d love to find out!
Lately I have been discovering some great hymns and Christian songs composed and sung by Chinese all over the world. Some are really nice!
Oh, and if you have never read about John Sung, his ministry was a true revival in China that even spread to S.E. Asia and Singapore prior to WWII, and an inspiration! I read the book on John Sung by Timothy Tow and it really taught me so much.
I never heard of that organization.Were they breaking some rule with the RAB? Is that the final word or is it possible for them to get their church back? Anyway, I’ll be praying for them.
@Isaiah -
Isaiah, I have written what I know on my latest post….
Arghhh… it should be IN
@Daniel Chew -
Thank you, brother!
For those who would like an English translation of the song, do visit Daniel’s blog — he has done a pretty good job translating the lyrics.