Welcome to this special episode of the China Compass podcast number 26 in the weekly prison pulpit series.

I am your China travel guide, missionary, Ben.

You can follow me on X at China Adventures, at China Adventures

on X, where I post daily reminders to pray for China. You can learn more about our various ministry

endeavors or any of the missionary biographies I have helped to publish all those things you can

find at pray givego.us. Pray givego.us. Has easy, easy access to all the different things we're doing,

including the prayer, including the missionary biographies. Today, on this podcast, I want to start by

reminding everyone why I started this second weekly podcast within the China Compass podcast kind

of feed. I started this, I guess it was last fall,

October-ish last fall. Pastor Wang Yi from Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu is the

reason I started this. The idea was that I could remind people to pray for him, as Hebrews 13-3

tells us to do, by reading some of his own words and sermons and be able to

use his words to kind of encourage people to get to know him better and also to remember

to pray for him in a more biblical way. I know more recently I've been referring to the late

Richard Wormbrand more and more because there's so much good material that he wrote from prison,

from within prison, or after he was in prison for many, many years. And we really don't have

hardly any news from Pastor Wang Yi since his imprisonment. But I do want to take a minute

and remind everyone of Wang Yi's current situation. I found this article this morning. It's from a year

or so ago, but it just reminds us. I was thinking, is there any news from prison? I remember at some

point years ago, there was an update that came out about Wang Yi saying that he wasn't given

access to his family or his lawyer, that he was going to be kept separate from other prisoners

even because they thought he would be a risk to share the gospel, which is obviously true.

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