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November Pray4Yueyang Calendar
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The November Prayer Calendar for the people of Yueyang, China is available for viewing and download. Please take a minute to download this month’s calendar and to print it out and post somewhere where you will be reminded daily to pray for the people of Yueyang!
As you pray for the people of Yueyang in November, we would like to encourage you to really be in prayer for the existing believers in Yueyang city. Being a believer in a place where you can be mocked, looked down upon, or even persecuted is not an easy thing. Many of those believers take it serious to be a “follower of Christ” and they actually do try to be obedient to the things they learn in Scripture – bringing ridicule and persecution not only from non-believers, but also from believers who prefer to be ‘luke-warm’ and to fly under the radar.
Also, don’t neglect to pray for the hundreds of thousands of lost souls living in Yueyang. Pray that there will be a mighty movement of the Holy Spirit resulting in thousands of new believers during the month of November!
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Prayer makes a difference. Thanks for being involved!
October Pray4Yueyang Calendar
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The October Prayer Calendar for the people of Yueyang, China is available for viewing and download. Please take a minute to download this month’s calendar and to print it out and post somewhere where you will be reminded daily to pray for the people of Yueyang!
October begins with the much anticipated celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. The actual ‘National Day’ is on the 1st, but this year the celebration will last for an entire week for most schools and some businesses! That means that millions of people will be traveling across the country, usually to return home and see their families who they may only see once or twice a year.
This holiday is also marked by a noticeable increase in religious persecution as national and local police conduct a far-reaching effort to decrease “crime” leading up to, and during the National Day celebrations. Please be in prayer for those who are caught up in this “crackdown” on unregistered churches. Often the arrests are made in the middle of the night, and with no warning and can be very traumatic for the HC pastor’s family and for their congregation.
If keeping track of the Pray4Yueyang blog is not very convenient for you, and you’d prefer to receive prayer updates delivered to your Email inbox, you can subscribe by giving us your Email address (use the box on the right hand column of this blog’s main page.) If you have any questions, just ask.
Prayer makes a difference. Thanks for being involved!
Number of Abortions in China is “Cause for Concern”
Posted by: | CommentsThere are 13 million abortions each year, compared to 20 million births, according to newly published research.
Researchers believe the real figure could be even higher because there are many abortions at unregistered clinics.
China imposed strict family planning rules in the 1970s in an attempt to limit the growth of its population.
Many pregnant women who have had their full quota of children have abortions to prevent unwanted births.
But young single women are most likely to have abortions in a country where there are 20 million births each year, the research found.
Experts said the high number of abortions was “cause for concern”, adding that many women who have abortions are single and aged between 20 and 29.
China began restricting the number of children each couple can have in 1978. Officials say this has prevented 400 million extra births.
Cab Driver Strike
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There is a strike going on right now in Yueyang, it seems that cab drivers are unhappy about the amount of money they are making after they pay their parent company the fee required to drive for that company. While most protests that occur here in Yueyang are peaceful, this one has had a few moments of chaos over the weekend. Some drivers were even arrested;
Eleven persons were detained because of rioting amid a strike involving thousand taxi drivers in Yueyang City in central China’s Hunan Province, police said on Saturday.
The strike began on Friday when dozens of drivers parked their taxies in front of the Yueyang municipal government’s building, demanding to reduce the amount of money they should pay to their taxi companies monthly, police said.
More drivers joined the strike on Saturday, police said.
Some people rioted during the strike as they stopped some taxis and forced the drivers to join the strike, police said.
The rioters smashed some cabs and hit the drivers, police said.
Police detained eight rioters on Friday and three on Saturday.
A special investigation team had been founded by the municipal government to solve the problem, said Han Jianguo, vice mayor of Yueyang.
Please pray for the people of Yueyang. Most do not have much worldly wealth, but almost all are consumed in the pursuit of it! Pray that people all across the city will hear the Good News of Jesus’ FREE gift of salvation and that a movement of people sharing this simple truth will spread rapidly across the entire city and province!
Economic Crisis Hitting the Heart of China
Posted by: | CommentsHunan for years has sent waves of migrant workers to the cities in search of a better life and an escape from tough farm labor.
But now there are as many as two million Hunanese searching for work, the majority laid off from seaboard factories as the impact of the global economic crisis creeps into China’s rural heartland.
Hunan province once sent a million new farmers a year to work in China’s booming cities. Now the financial crisis means it is scrabbling to keep two million unemployed off the streets, a senior official said.
Beijing fears joblessness could lead to destabilizing unrest and has ordered local governments to throw their energy into keeping their citizens in some kind of employment.
Please pray for the people of Yueyang, many of whom are feeling the effects of the global economic slowdown in much more tangible ways than those of us living in more ‘affluent’ countries. Pray that food and housing needs are met and that this crisis would create a new openness to hearing the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Kidnapping in Yueyang
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Police in Yueyang have broken up a gang that abducted children in Yueyang to sell in distant Chinese provinces, state media reports.
The children were mostly toddlers aged two or three years old. They were sold for between 860 yuan ($125) and 26,000 yuan ($3,800), according to news sources.
Five children had been rescued and 13 suspects arrested. The children were snatched in broad daylight by gang members on motorbikes.
Child trafficking is seen as a growing problem in China, despite government attempts to crack down on it.
Please pray for families in Yueyang who have experienced the tragedy of having their child kidnapped as well as families who live in fear of the schemes of evil ‘men.’
Pray that the gospel will go forth into all of Yueyang and that the society will be transformed as hate is replaced by love, greed is replaced by charity, and fear is replaced by peace.
Every two minutes
Posted by: | CommentsOn average, a Chinese person takes his or her own life every two minutes.
With between 250,000 and 300,000 suicides a year, China accounts for about a quarter of the global total, according to medical sources. China’s suicide rate is now among the highest in the world.
Even as China has moved to the spot of the world’s fourth-largest economy, filling many Chinese with pride, suicide has become the main cause of death in the age group between 15 and 34.
The Chinese are caught in the middle of the often conflicting demands of Communism, Confucianism and capitalism, and they do not know which one to turn to, experts say.
Please pray for the people of China and more specifically, the people of Yueyang. Pray that people who are lost in a rapidly shifting society will find HOPE in the Good News of Jesus Christ!
December Prayer Calendar is Available
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The December Prayer Calendar for the people of Yueyang, China is available for viewing and download. Please take a minute to download this month’s calendar and to print it out and post somewhere where you will be reminded daily to pray for the people of Yueyang!
Your prayers play a vital role in bringing the good news to the people of Yueyang and there is no way for us to express our gratitude to those of you who faithfully ‘stand in the gap’ for the people of Yueyang on a regular basis!
While the focus of this blog is to mobilize prayer, occasionally we will let you know about other ways you can be involved in bringing the Good News to those who need it desperately. One of those ways is by giving generously and obediently to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. (We encourage Southern Baptists to give through their local churches, however you can use the link above to give online right now.)
In addition to the prayer requests found on this blog and the prayer calendar, be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit as you spend a minute or two in prayer every day for the people of Yueyang.
If keeping track of the Pray4Yueyang blog is not very convenient for you, and you’d prefer to receive prayer updates delivered to your Email inbox, you can subscribe by giving us your Email address (use the box on the right hand column of this blog’s main page.) If you have any questions, just ask.
Prayer makes a difference. Will you be involved?
Persecution
Posted by: | CommentsPlease take a few minutes to pause what you are doing and spend a moment in prayer for the unregistered house churches in Yueyang.
It appears that community leaders across the city (and rural counties) are being asked to identify active Christians in their neighborhoods. That information is then being used to demand that house churches disband. When they don’t, the leadership face arrest and persecution.
This is just starting, no one knows how long this will last and how thorough an effort the authorities plan on investing in this ‘crack-down’. Please pray for safety, discernment and boldness.
Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
November Prayer Calendar is Available
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The November Prayer Calendar for the people of Yueyang China is available for viewing and download. Please take a minute to download this month’s calendar and to print it out and post somewhere where you will be reminded daily to pray for the people of Yueyang!
November in Yueyang is usually cold and wet as winter is just starting to set in. Unlike the northern part of China, homes, offices and classrooms in China are usually NOT heated. The chill that can set in will cut you to the bone.
As you remember the people of Yueyang, China throughout the month of November, will you faithfully intercede on behalf of the lost who do not know Christ and who have never had a chance to hear the Good News explained in a way that they can understand?
Pray that the Holy Spirit will light a fire, in the middle of a cold and wet month, in the hearts of the people of Yueyang and that there will be an awesome response to the hope of the Gospel!
In addition to the prayer requests found on this blog and the prayer calendar, be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit as you spend a minute or two in prayer every day for the people of Yueyang.
If keeping track of the Pray4Yueyang blog is not very convenient for you, and you’d prefer to receive prayer updates delivered to your Email inbox, you can subscribe by giving us your Email address (use the box on the right hand column of this blog’s main page.) If you have any questions, just ask.
Prayer makes a difference. Will you be involved?