Testimonies from a Chinese Jail (The Prison Pulpit #9) [China Compass]
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🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this bonus episode of China Compass, the 9th in a weekly series called “The Prison Pulpit”. I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I share new Chinese cities to pray for daily. You can learn more about that at PrayforChina.us.
You can also check out my Substack (ChinaCall.substack.com) where I write mostly about China and missions. I have already posted the updates that I shared on this podcast, including this one: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/testimonies-from-a-chinese-jail
This month is the 6th anniversary of the attack and forcible closure of Early Rain Church in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, and the arrest of Pastor Wang Yi, who is the primary contributor to this podcast series, The Prison Pulpit. (Find all the episodes on PubTV, Spotify, or Podbean)
Two weeks ago I read the Wang Yi family newsletter that was published just 12 days before his arrest on Dec 9, 2018. Last week I shared a handful of updates that were put out by unnamed Early Rain Church members in the immediate aftermath of the attack and arrest of the pastor and most of the leadership.
As one of last week's updates reminded us, there was no guarantee that the next update would ever come. Arrests were ongoing. So it was an exciting answer to prayer when the following testimonies were released on December 15th, 2018:
Early Rain Urgent Prayer Update (12/15/18)
According to some testimonies of brothers and sisters that have emerged, they have been sharing the gospel while under guard. They have been using their suffering as a beautiful testimony for the Lord… (listen to the podcast for the full update and my comments)
Resource of the Week: The Memoirs of William Milne (PrayGiveGo.us)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this bonus episode of China Cup, the ninth now in a weekly series, I'm calling the prison pulpit. |
| 0:17.3 | That's because we are sharing mostly the words of imprisoned Chinese pastor Wang Yi, |
| 0:23.1 | who has been in prison now for six years, a little more than six years now. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm your China travel guide, missionary Ben, lived in China for 15 or so years, lived in Peru |
| 0:32.9 | for many years as well, speak fluent Chinese and fluent Spanish. That's just trying to share. |
| 0:39.4 | I haven't shared that for many, many, many weeks. So you can know a little bit more about me. |
| 0:42.9 | I have to keep my identity somewhat veiled just from my own security in relation to my |
| 0:48.0 | relationship to China. You can follow me on X at China Adventures. China Adventures, all one word there, two A's there in the |
| 0:57.3 | middle, China Adventures, where I share new Chinese cities to pray for daily. Every single day, |
| 1:02.9 | there's a new prayer profile for a new city or prefecture in China that most people have |
| 1:08.1 | never, ever heard of in their lives. Some of them I've never even heard of until I research for that particular post. |
| 1:13.5 | You can learn more about all of that in our prayer ministry for China at prayfor china. |
| 1:19.9 | Us. |
| 1:20.7 | That us. |
| 1:21.7 | Pray for F-O-R. |
| 1:23.2 | China. |
| 1:24.1 | U.S. |
| 1:24.9 | You can also check out my substack, China compass. Substack.companus. Substack.com. And I write mostly about China. U.S. You can also check out my substack, ChinaCompass.substack.com. |
| 1:29.9 | And I write mostly about China and missions. |
| 1:33.1 | I've posted a lot of the updates from this particular podcast series, the prison pulpit |
| 1:37.3 | as well. |
| 1:37.7 | I posted on the substack, some of the quotes that I'll be using and sharing here. |
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