Prayer Request 7/19-- 7/25

Tuesday
"Will Chinese like Hong Kong style cooking?" While Cantonese cuisine is one of the best styles of Chinese cooking, experts in the food business are doubtful that the interior of China is ready to have restaurants from Hong Kong yet. Only one percent of the 200,000 people associated with the restaurant business in Hong Kong is Christian. Let us remember the effort by many churches to reach out to those working in restaurants there.
Wednesday
Panic broke out as a report came out that 95% of domestic Chinese beer contains an excess level of formaldehyde. China is the most robust market in the world for beer, a market hotly contested by international beer giants. A recent string of contaminated prducts in China has heightened the need for stringent quality control of food there. Let us remember again the need for the unadulterated Biblical message in all churches, not merely a social gospel or an extreme interpretation of the Bible .
Thursday
A coal mine blast in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region killed more than eighty people. The mine owners violated safety measures and required nearly four times the safe level of production, did not get a safety license, and allowed poor management in the mines.With the energy price the highest ever, many operators ignore safety measures to achieve more production. As a result nearly six thousand miners die yearly. Let us remember all the churches in Xinjiang as well as the spread of the gospel among the Muslim people there..
Friday
How much is a life worth? Thirty-one victims of a recent hotel fire in Shantou will receive 200,000 yuan (24,400USD) each. Embarrassingly, most of the dead were girls serving as hostesses in KTV and mahjong joints. Hundreds of thousands of young women seek jobs in cities and end up in the sex trade. Let us pray against the inferno which lures and then traps them .
Saturday
MacDonald withdrew an "insulting" ad in Xian which featured a Chinese man kneeling in front of a robot salesman begging for a discount. The ad says that people don't have to beg to get a discount at MacDonald. The insensitivity of Western humor in China has been a headache for foreign advertisers. Let us pray for the cultural understanding of all foreign missionaries learning to communicate Jesus to Chinese .
Sunday
In China, strokes are the Number Two cause of death and the leading cause for disability. Each year seven million people are afflicted with strokes and four million are paralyzed. Nearly every family has at least one relative who has suffered a stroke. Caring for stoke victims is often disruptive and burdensome. Let us pray for patience and kindness for all believers who must care for paralyzed loved one .
Monday
According to US consulates in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Shenyang, the United Sates will issue fifty percent more student visas this year than last year. Every summer Chinese churches in the United States gear up to welcome thousands of newly arrived Chinese students for the Fall semester. Let us pray for a bumper crop of harvest for the Lord Jesus this year .

星期二
「港式餐飲會受國內消費大眾歡迎嗎？」馳名中外的廣東菜肴是最受推崇的中國料理之一。專家認為香港餐飲企業可提供內地大型商場有特色的品牌且疏解香港市場飽和的壓力，彼此互惠互利，惟內地法規不完善，進軍內地既有商機也有挑戰。香港200,000餐飲從業人員中，僅有1%是基督徒，讓我們為餐館福音事工代禱，求主祝福引領，大大加添得救的靈魂。
星期三
有媒體報導國內啤酒業使用甲醛充當穩定劑以降低成本，且95%的中國啤酒甲醛含量超標，引發日韓的恐慌， 韓國要求緊急收回，日本隨即展開全面調查。中國是全球最大的啤酒市場，是世界知名啤酒市場必爭之地。甲醛啤酒案再次突顯食品品管要求重要性。在信徒餵養上亦如是，讓我們再次為眾教會能供應純正合乎真道的教導，不是摻雜、偽裝為世俗主義的福音或走極端解釋聖經來禱告。
星期四
新疆阜康神龍煤礦“７·１１”礦難造成８３人死亡。災難主因是無改擴許可執照，並且違規操作、嚴重超産、管理混亂、漠視生産安全等。由於能源價格空前飛漲，許多業者忽略採礦安全汲汲超量增產，使得災變頻傳，每年有將近6,000人喪生。求主親自安慰罹難者的家屬並記念新疆所有教會和回教徒福音事工。
星期五
「一條命值多少錢？」汕頭“6·10”華南賓館31名火災死者每人理賠20萬人民幣(24,000美金)。罹難者多來自四川、江西和湖北等省份在KTV包厢、麻將房謀生的20來歲陪客小姐。每天有成千上萬年輕女性到大城市發展，結果往往墮入色情行業無以自拔，讓我們用禱告來托住她們，求主讓她們能早日得救，靠神引導能抵制那些誘人失足的地方。
星期六
麥當勞撤換在西安上檔「有侮辱影涉」的廣告片。片中演出一個中國人跪在機器人推銷員前面，請求折扣優待。廣告詞是提醒人們到麥當勞不必乞求，就能享受折扣。西式幽默無法敏銳的體恤民情，在中國往往招致怨懟，成為外國廣告人頭痛的困擾。讓我們為外籍宣教士能深入了解中國文化習俗，清楚有果效地向國人傳講耶穌救恩禱告。
星期日
中國人死亡原因第二大殺手是腦中風，也是造成殘障的最大成因。每年有700萬人中風400萬人殘障，幾乎每家至少有一個親人受中風之苦，家屬在照顧病人期間必需承受莫大的辛勞和個人生涯規劃的中斷。讓我們為病人身心靈的康復代禱，也求主賜愛心與能力給要照料殘障中風病患的信徒們，有好像作在主身上般的委身和喜樂。
星期一
根據在上海、廣州、成都和瀋陽的美國領事館表示，美國將會核准比去年多出50%的留學簽証。 每個暑期，全美的華人教會都卯足精神迎接成千來自中國的秋季入學新生。讓我們禱告神賜眾肢體有智慧和愛心為主的禾場忠心耕耘澆灌，作好迎新的接待工作及佈道會，為主期許滿滿的豐收。