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December Pray4Yueyang Calendar
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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!
December is a busy month for most people and it’s easy to let life’s daily demands steal the time you would normally spend in prayer for the lost around the world. We want you to know how much we appreciate every minute of prayer you spend on behalf of the people of Yueyang! We know it’s not easy and we greatly value the time you invest.
This month is not only a busy time for you, it’s a busy time for believers in China as well. The people of Yueyang do not officially celebrate Christmas, but they are aware that much of the world is celebrating. This provides a great opportunity for Christians all across the city to naturally share their faith with their family, friends and co-workers. As you might expect, this also means that spiritual warfare gets stepped up at the same time, the evil one is NOT happy when Christians obediently and boldly share their faith.
Please pray for believers in Yueyang during the month of December! Eternity is at stake for 1.5 million lost souls.
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The Harvest Field Is White
By · CommentsHere is a video called “Tears In The Saints” that is pretty powerful as it expresses the attitude and response every believer with a Biblical worldview should have towards the unreached peoples of our world.
Tears In The Saints from Rob Stevens on Vimeo.
If you are one of our regular prayer warriors, faithfully standing in the gap for the lost and perishing of Yueyang, China, thank you. Thank you for giving up those few minutes every morning before waking the kids for school or before leaving for work. Thank you for sharing with your small group or those at your Wednesday night prayer meeting about your burden for a struggling house church leader or for unbelieving spouses that seem very far from God.
Thank you!
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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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.
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September Pray4Yueyang Calendar
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The September 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!
September marks the end of summer and students across the city begin the fall ’09 semester. Will you take a moment right now to pray for college and university students in Yueyang. University students in Yueyang face challenges and pressures as they leave their hometowns and come to Yueyang to study that they have never faced before. Often they find themselves feeling vulnerable and alone as they face decisions they have never had to make on their own before. This is a critical tiime in their lives as they cross the threshold of adulthood.
One of the nice things about this time of year is that the hot and humid weather loses a little bit of it’s edge and cooler weather begins to creep in. The result is that the people of Yueyang spend more time outside, talking and playing with their neighbors in Yueyang’s parks and other public spaces.
Many of Yueyang Christians are trying to become more obedient in the area of evangelism and are excited about the fact that so many people are out in public spaces just ‘hanging out’, providing many opportunities to share good news with neighbors and colleagues. Please pray for these faithful believers who are stepping out on faith in order to be obedient to the Scriptural command for ALL believers to share their faith with others.
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Number of Abortions in China is “Cause for Concern”
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.
August Pray4Yueyang Calendar
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The August 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 August arrives in Yueyang, summer is in full swing. Most students are having some sort of ‘summer break’, resuming classes for the new fall term in September. Yueyang is hot, no, Yueyang is REALLY hot in the summer! The pace across the city slows down just a notch or two as people adapt to the heat and general lack of air conditioning in homes and places of business.
One nice side effect of the August heat is that the city’s residents become even more social than usual, invading the city’s parks and public spaces every night with people of all ages who go out after dark to enjoy the ‘relative’ coolness of the evening. It is not uncommon for there to be several hundred to even several thousand people milling around the city square or the Yueyang Tower park. Some Yueyang Christians who are trying to become more obedient in the area of evangelism have been taking advantage of the fact that so many people are out in public spaces just ‘hanging out’. Please pray for these faithful believers who are stepping out on faith in order to be obedient to the Scriptural command for ALL believers to share their faith with others.
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July Pray4Yueyang Calendar
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The July 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!
The month of July in China begins with the celebration of the Anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党诞辰).
The Communist Party of China (CPC), also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and the ruling political party of the People’s Republic of China and the world’s largest political party. The Communist Party of China was founded in 1921, and came to rule all of mainland China after defeating its rival the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War. The party’s 70 million members constitute 5.5% of the total population of mainland China.
By many estimates, there are more Christians in China (approx 100 Million) than there are Communists Party Members. However, the CCP holds a tight grip on every aspect of life for China’s 1.3 Billion citizens. Please pray for all 70 million members of China’s Communist Party. Ask that those who already have a faith in Christ will live out their faith with bold obedience and that those who do not believe will at least have a chance to hear the gospel explained fairly and clearly in a manner in which they can understand.
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June Prayer Calendar
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The June 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!
The month of June in China begins with the celebration of the “International Children’s Day“ (六一国际儿童节).
When the People’s Republic of China was first established in 1949, the government established a holiday for all primary schools on June 1. Schools usually hold activities such as field trips to local parks or other free activities on Children’s Day to allow students to have fun. On June 1, 2009 the day was made even more memorable, as many people remembered the children who died in the massive Sichuan earthquake just a year before.
For many people in America, having a “Mother’s Day” or a “Father’s Day” makes sense, but a day to celebrate “Children” seems strange (isn’t EVERY day children’s day?!) In many ways, this is a great illustration of the cultural values that have evolved in a country with a one-child policy and every family having their own “little emperor” upon which all the hopes of a family reside.
Pray that families all across Yueyang will come to a saving faith in Jesus Christ during the month of June. Ask that people would begin to shift their hope for the future away from unrealistic ambitions for their children and onto their Creator and Savior who can meet every need.
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100 Million Chinese Suffer from Mental Illness
By · CommentsA recent report gives a somewhat rare look into an issue that doesn’t get talked about much, but an issue that should enter into our thinking when praying for all the diverse groups of people that make up Yueyang, China.
A senior mental health official says that at least 100 million Chinese people, or 7.7% of the population, suffer from mental illness, the Telegraph reports.
“This is a modest number,” Huang Yueqin, the director of the National Center for Mental Health, told the paper, noting that actual figures may be much higher. By her own estimate, Huang says a third of her university classmates have had some form of mental illness.
The WHO notes that mental illness has overtaken heart disease and cancer as the largest burden on China’s health care system. There are few mental health professionals working in China today, and Huang estimates that only 5% of China’s mentally ill seek treatment.
To be fair, “100 million” sounds like a HUGE number, but in relation to the total population of China, this is actually a lower percentage than what is reported in the USA.
If the percentage holds, there would be well over 100,000 mentally ill people in Yueyang city alone! A sobering realization. Please be in prayer for the people of Yueyang.