Prayer Request 12/29 - 1/4

Tuesday
About 274 million migrants live in cities across the country. One in three people in the southern province of Guangdong are migrants from elsewhere in China. We pray for wisdom and compassion of Jesus for churches in cities, knowing how to care and minister believers from villages, so they will not be lost without shepherd. We too pray for those working in cities, they will not stop worship and fellowship in churches.
Wednesday
Many are alarmed by how quickly China churches are becoming secularized, people see churches a social gathering place especially after retirement. Also, churches are not transparent in its finance, causing believers to be cynical and not willing to be involved. We pray for revival of His churches, protection of those who love and serve Him. We ask God to corrupt the attacks of cults and punish the evil servants who treat the House of God as their own enterprise.
Thursday
The population of migrant workers in Guangdong Province is almost twenty millions, they come from Hunan, Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Henan, these six provinces accounted for more than eighty percent of all migrant workers. We pray for Hong Kong churches will seize the opportunity to share gospel to workers in use Guangdong, because many migrant workers return to their hometowns, as a way to reach provinces in the inland China.
Friday
In 2012, nearly 60 percent of China's migrant population is 16-40 year old male. Four-fifths of migrant workers have completed at least secondary education. In 2010, the vast majority of construction workers and coal miners are migrant workers. The trend of finding work in the cities will continue. So, we pray churches in the cities will show sincerity in accepting believers from the villages, even though there are cultural and educational differences, but we are all members of the Body of Christ, to love one another.
Saturday
China’s central government allocate funding for welfare and social services base on the number of residents with household registration, which totally exclude all the migrants residing in the town or cities. It is a fact that majority of rural Christians cannot find a spiritual home in the cities, stop attending church, or lost in sins without help. We pray for God’s mercy, giving churches practical ways to help rural believers lost in the cities.
Sunday
City governments lack the funding to provide medical care and education for migrant workers in their cities, to cover those expenses, cities become overly reliant on selling land-use rights and borrowing. Rural Christians who moved to cities for works find city church cold and unwelcoming. Many cannot even find churches. We pray that church leaders will lead their people to care for migrant workers, and even start worship catering to the migrants in their community.
Monday
The wealth gap between Chinese urban and rural areas has increased over the last three decades. By 2012, people in cities will earn 3.1 times if those in the rural areas. We praise the Lord for the numerical growth China churches have experienced in the past 30 years, but we ask the Lord for how churches need to help believers grow spiritually, so we will have dedicated, victorious believers who would shine in this crooked age.


星期二
中國的城市中大約有2.74億的外來人口。在南方的廣東省，三分之一的居民來自其他省份。求主賜智慧與愛心給城巿教會，曉得如何來關心和牧養來自農村的信徒，不叫他們如同沒有牧人的羊群一般流離無依。更求主保守在城巿打工的信徒們，越過各種的難處，勝過誘惑，不停止聚會。
星期三
許多人警覺到許多中國教會正快速地走向世俗化，成為聚樂和休閒的場所，尤其對許多退休人士更是如此。而教會決策和財務缺乏透明度，亦造成信徒對教會參與度不高。我們禱告主復興祂的教會，扶持忠心愛主的信徒。更求主敗壞異端邪教的攻擊，懲治把神的家當做自己伸展權勢舞台的惡僕。
星期四
廣東省内的流動人口接近二千萬，其中湖南、四川、湖北、江西、廣西、河南等六個省份的人佔八成以上。求主激勵香港信徒把握機會，能以廣東省為傳福音起點，帶領更多外來民工信主，當這些在廣東打工時信主的信徒有機會返鄉時，就是一粒能把福音帶回他們家鄉的種籽。
星期五
2012年，將近60%的中國流動人口是16-40歲的男性。五分之四的中國流動人口至少完成了初中教育。2010年，絕大多數的建築工人和煤礦工人都有流動背景。目前在城鎮打工仍有增多的趨勢， 求主幫助城鎮教會在主裡真誠接待民工，雖然在文化與習俗上大有不同，但是在基督為元首下互為肢體，當學習以愛心彼此接納，配搭事主。
星期六
中央政府往往根據當地的戶籍登記，即戶口人數做為社會福利撥款依據，但在城市生活卻沒有城鎮戶口的外來人口並未算入這些數據當中。事實上許多農村信徒在城巿中找不到屬靈的家，不再恒常參與聚會，陷落在罪惡中卻沒有人來守望、勸告。求主施恩憐憫這一大群迷羊，也賜給眾教會有實際可行的策略來幫助他們。
星期日
中國的市級政府，不僅因現金短缺，更是缺乏為外來人口提供醫療保健或教育等社會服務的動力。為了支付這些費用，各市變得過度依賴出售土地使用權和貸款。外地信徒也會覺得他們無法融入當地教會，甚至找不到聚會點。求主興起教會領袖們能實際關心社區中的外地信徒，甚至帶動他們的教會贊助發展民工教會。
星期一
過去30年，中國城鄉之間的貧富差距持續拉大。到2012年，城鎮居民的收入已是農村居民收入的3.1倍。雖然中國教會近30年的基督徒人數是有增長，但在「靈性」層面上的成熟更需要關注。我們為信徒禱告，眾教會不單單僅是幫助會眾增多知識，更是要能委身，在這彎曲悖謬的世代中靠主做個得勝者。