Welcome to this bonus episode of China Compass, the eighth now in a weekly series, and I'm calling

The Prison Pulpit. I am your China Travel Guide, missionary Ben. You can follow me on

X at China Adventures. There's two A's there,

China Adventures, where I share new Chinese cities and prefectures and provinces to pray for every single

day. You can learn more about all of that at prayforchina.us. That's for the preposition for prayforchina.

U.S. You can also check out my

substack, china compass.substack.combeck.combeck.combeck.combeck.combeck and missions. I will also

be posting the updates from Early Rain Church in China that I'll be reading from today.

As I'm recording this podcast, it is the sixth anniversary of the attack and

forcible closure of early rain church in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, back on December 9th,

2018, and that same morning, Pastor Wang Yi was arrested. He's the one that's the primary

contributor to this podcast series,

The Prison Pulpit. It's mostly from his writings that I've been sharing and giving him a voice,

even though he is still in prison, serving a nine-year sentence, at least nine-year sentence.

And I'm trying to give him a voice to share some of his thoughts on the gospel and persecution and China and all these

different things. So we're reading different things that he's written almost every single week. And

this week is a slight exception. We're going to be looking at things that were published by his church,

by somebody in his church. We don't know exactly who it was. At least I don't, and we're going to be reading what they

wrote in the aftermath, the immediate aftermath of their church being forcibly shut down,

taken over by the police, confiscated, everything was confiscated, and Pastor Wang Yi was taken

away, arrested, and is still in prison to this day. So last week I read the Wang Yi family

newsletter that was published about 12 days

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