Pray for China
Posted on | June 14, 2009 | No Comments
In a little over a week, I will be heading to China for three weeks on a mission trip with a few other people from my school. I would appreciate your prayers now and during those three weeks, especially because China is not exactly the most friendly country in the world toward Christianity.
In my preparations for leaving, however, I have learned that China is not as bad as I had thought — we shouldn’t be in any real danger. Also, we will be going there with a man who was a missionary there for 17 years, so he knows the lay of the land pretty well.
Nevertheless, I was saddened to read this story about a man who was recently imprisoned for printing and distributing Bibles to rural Chinese people:
BEIJING – By all accounts, Shi Weihan was a model Chinese citizen.A kind-hearted man with a sense of social responsibility, he donated funds to send poor kids to school, raised money for those suffering from congenital heart disease, and when the Sichuan earthquake hit, worked tirelessly for the emergency relief effort.
But Shi had a fatal flaw.
He printed Bibles – and gave them out for free.
This week a criminal court in Beijing sentenced him to three years in jail.
Read the rest of the story here.
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