Prayer Request 7/12 --7/18

Thursday
Seventy percents of imported luxury furniture in China is counterfeit. Selling up to 50% discount, these items were made in China, but actually sent through the customs as imports. “Buyers Beware” is the motto of buying in China. Let us pray especially for the alarming trends of imported cults, funded with large budgets and causing great confusion among the believers.

Friday
Beginning July, government starts enforce “No liquor sell to minors”, which was enacted into law in 1999. News reports such effort is nearly impossible and expects spotty compliances among millions of retailer. Drinking hard liquor is so prevalent is China, children are exposed to them early in life. Tobaccos and alcohol advertisement even appears in children TV channels. Let us pray the growing epidemic of teen drinking and smoking.

Saturday
Government opens air-raid shelters as heat waves hit. One such shelters in Chongqing is 17 acres in size, accommodates tens of thousands. Many of these Cold War facilities have been turned into underground malls. Chinese churches hold summer retreats usually in hotels or government-sponsored training facilities. Let us pray for their safety and fruitful ministry in raising up a generation of new leaders.

Sunday
Neighbors whom Taiwanese homeowners hate the most: sex-related businesses and gangsters, couples who fight often, followed by those who ignore complaints about water leaks from their apartment. Sex-related businesses fill nearly every street in Taiwan. There are both a nuisance and temptation for the believers. In this islands where temples outnumbers churches 10 to 1, let us remember the 3000 plus churches.

Monday
Questionable Hepatitis vaccine cause 300 children ill and one death in Anhui. Panic over the safety of all vaccines and medications swept through the nation. In this country where counterfeit goods are the norm of life, let us pray for the spiritual health of millions of believers. Unorthodox teaching and cults have swept through many provinces.

星期二
2004年上海農村基本上已達全面小康程度，農民年均收入7,337元 (1,000美金)，比上年增長10.2%，增幅爲近八年最高，在全國發展上也遠超其他農村地區。許多農民皆由安徽、河南兩省遷來，針對這些外來農民靈魂的需要，目前上海已新興很多相應的教會。讓我們為神對信徒的信實供應感恩，願主親自引領東南沿海各地上百的此類教會。

星期三
有84歲的中國共產黨(CPC)目前有7,000萬黨員，為全球成員最多的政治團體。去年入黨的242萬人中，有19萬5千是高校生，占全國高校生總數的8%，增長率持續上升。吸引青年學子熱烈加入的主因是滿意於該黨堅持自我改造和在反腐反貪上的努力。響應「開發大西北」在邊遠地區任教的許多大學生中，有很大比例的黨員。何日在高校生中也能接受主像屬世的政黨般呢？讓我們禱告神的救恩早日普及。

星期四
追求高檔次的消費者所購買的頂級進口家具，將近一半是國內仿製品出關繞一圈換貼外國品牌後再進關的洋假貨，真品家具可能不足三成。由於缺乏相應機構、法規對此仿冒行為的制裁， 50多家外商家具公司出資打假基金1千萬人民幣來保障自己的權益。進口貨不一定是正牌貨，消費者要「擦亮眼睛」，求主賜分辨的智慧給眾信徒，不論是「國產」或「進口」教師的教導，都要仔細察考，堅守純正的真理。

星期五
全國酒類經營者從7月1日開始，不准向未成年人出售酒類商品。雖1999年實施的《預防未成年人犯罪法》已有相關規定，因目前仍無明確懲戒措施，要全國數百萬的經銷商貫徹實施，預期效果不樂觀。飲酒在中國很普遍，兒童從小就耳濡目染，煙酒廣告甚至常在兒童電視頻道出現。讓我們為流行在青少年當中日益嚴重的酗酒和煙癮問題禱告。

星期六
為躲避熱浪來襲，政府宣布開放多處大型戰備防空壕讓民眾避暑，其中重慶的一處地下防空壕有17.3英畝大，可容上萬人。這些冷戰時期建築的防空壕，設有茶館、食坊形成一座座地下街商城。暑期國內也有許多培訓營會在各地舉行，讓我們為所有參與同工和學員的安全和學習果效來守望，尤其是新生代教會領袖的建造栽培，求主親自保守和帶領。

星期日
臺灣房東眼中深惡痛絕的十大惡房客前三名為：從事色情行業和幫派份子、夫妻經常爭吵和無視規勸任由住屋水管漏水不理睬者。臺灣色情業充斥著每條大街小巷，對信徒是很大的困擾也是容易失腳的引誘，在這各類寺廟林立，數目十倍於教堂的島上，讓我們為其中的3,000家以上的教會禱告，願主幫助祂兒女敬虔愛人、持守聖潔，成為神發光的金燈臺。

星期一
安徽泗縣大莊鎮2,000多名小學生，因基層防疫部門爲牟取私利違規操作，擅自進行集體接種劣質甲肝疫苗而導致數百人異常反應，一人喪生。暴露出中國農村公共衛生體系的缺陷和漏洞，令人憂慮。國內生活中假劣貨品充斥，人們視以為常，許多不合真理的教導也盛行於不少省份中。讓我們特別為數百萬信徒靈命的健康禱告，求主親自修護羊圈的破口，逐出攪擾的惡者。