Lightning keeps striking

Eastern Lightning cult remains a lethal weapon Satan uses against the house churches. Up till now, many house church leaders have been deceived and joined the cult. The painfully shocking fact is that among the misled are leaders who have served for many years. Please pray urgently for the Chinese churches. In the last two years we have printed and freely distributed 90,000 copies of booklets to believers all over China calling them to guard against Eastern Lightning. Recently we have mounting requests from churches asking for more of booklets. We plan to rush out another 20,000 copies at a printing cost of USD5,500. Please pray for the needs.

Houses churches in distress

Listed below are instances of persecution we know of in the last six months. What have escaped our knowledge must be dozens of times more than what we know of. Please, therefore, earnestly pray for the body of Christ in China and let us share their suffering in this time of persecution.

• A Shantung house church leader detained recently was a newly-wedded sister. Pray for a strong faith while she is serving her one-year jail sentence. Also arrested were several teachers who came to Shantung to conduct training. They have been released for interrogation for more than a week in the lock-up.
• Most of the 170 co-workers rounded up in Henan have been released. One co-worker was sentenced to two-year imprisonment.
• The police raided the house of a gospel worker in Yunnan and now he has no house to return to.
• A missionary operating as an English teacher was deported for leading others to Jesus.
• In northeastern Yunnan, police often interrupt Christian meetings and impose detention and fine on the believers.
• Several bible schools and seminaries run by house churches in Yunnan have been busted by the police. Police surveillance continues.
• Police broke up a discipleship training in Chongqing but failed to nab the teachers involved. Six local participants were locked up for 15 days before being released with fines.
• A house church member in Hunan was picked up by police distributing tracts. He was given severe beating in the police station.
• A Shaanxi house church bible school was raided by the police. Its teachers were not allowed to leave the place until fines were paid.
• The police interfered with a house church meeting in Wenzhou causing damage to the meeting place. Some believers were arrested but are now set free. In the same month, the police raided a training centre operated by the house church nearby. The centre remains under seal.