Operation China - Day 5

Now we move into praying for the 31 Province's of China. I will try to put up pictures of each province so you have an idea where they are or what that region looks like. You may have seen my saying after a couple of the post... "Prayer changes everything, and when we pray God answers." That saying is so true. God loves to hear from his people. He created us, he made us in his own image, he wants a personal relationship with us. Communicating is part of having a personal relationship. And praying for a country greatly in need is a responsibility of all Christians. Please tell your friends about Operation China and help spread that cause!

Anhui Province


CHALLENGES FOR PRAYER
1) Utopian Maoism was a disaster for Anhui's people
2) Christian growth has been remarkable
3) Lack of leadership in the churches has resulted in the forming of a number of extreme or heretical groups
4) Persecution of unregistered churches became more severe in 1999 with a major drive against 'cults', harsh 're-education' programmes, closure of meetings, heavy fines and imprisonments

Beijing Municipality


CHALLENGES FOR PRAYER
1) China is ruled from Beijing
2) The Communist authorities keep tight control of the Christians and Christian activity, being particularly severe on unofficial ministry
3) There are 3m migrants without legal residence papers

Chongqing Municipality


CHALLENGES FOR PRAYER
1) Chongqing is the industrial and trade hub for southwest China on the Yangtze River, and reputedly one of the ten most polluted cities in the world through heavy use of coal
2) Many of the 800,000 people being displaced by the nearby Three Gorges Dam will be resettled in Chongqing and Fuling

Fujian Province


CHALLENGES FOR PRAYER
1) The first Protestant missionaries arrived in the early 19th Century
2) Buddhism and Daoism have revived – over 20,000 temples have been illegally built or restored
3) The unreached in two significant groups:
a) The 800,000 She are a Hmong people related to the Miao, but Christians are only around 1,000 (0.12%)
b) The 4,000 Ami, Bunun and Paiwan are related to the mountain peoples of Taiwan where most have become Christian

Gansu Province


CHALLENGES FOR PRAYER
1) The Christian population is relatively small
2) The least evangelized:
a) The Dongxian, Bonan and Enger Yugur are of mixed Mongolian background and are strongly Muslim
b) The Muslim Hui are numerous in the cities;
c) Tibetans are largely Buddhist and number 400,000