Prayer Request 5/2--5/8

Tuesday
Fake or blatantly false medical advertisements about hospitals and medicines flood Chinese media. Official says about 2.5 million Chinese took the wrong medication because of misleading advertising. Cure for Hepatitis and AIDS are seen everywhere. Let us pray for phenomenon of many preachers who claim believing in Jesus can cure all illness too. We lift up our prayer for sound doctrine and preaching in many house churches .

Wednesday
Every first weekend of April is the National Tree Planting Day. In 1981, Deng Xiaoping made it a law that everyone 11 years and older must plant 3-5 trees a year. So far, only 46% of citizens have done so.A Chinese saying goes, “If you have a decade, plant a tree; if you have a century, train the people.” Let us pray for the discipleship of all the college students who found salvation through the campus ministries this year .

Thursday
According to government officials, in China only thirteen percent of people who have tuberculosis are treated. Each year there are 4.5 million cases mostly in rural villages and about 130,000 of them die. Many believers who work as physicians and nurses have been effective in sharing Jesus with their patients. Let us remember the many hospitals staffed with primarily Christian staffs .

Friday
A survey of college students in a university in Zhejiang shows that 75% of the students spend up to a thousand yuan ($125.US) a month. This "free spending" pattern is like that of working professionals.Most will agree that college students are particularly open and receptive to the gospel. However, material wealth has diminished the spiritual hunger of many young people. Let us remember all those who are involved in reaching students .

Saturday
A shortage of factory laborers is a real problem in China. The wages in the Guangzhou area continue to spiral upward and many are shopping around for higher pay. So far, exporters have absorbed the increased labor costs and have not passed them on to consumers. The shortage of workers is particularly acute since many choose to go to cities for work and for better education for their children. Let us again remember the desperate need for church workers, their families, and the education of their children .

Sunday
More than seventy-seven percent of college students own cell phones (mostly high-end equipments) and more than half of them also have computers. Of the computer users, sixty percent use them for games and chatting and only twenty-six percent use them for study. On-line sermons and Bible study CD's are popular among believers who have computers and are often the way to get Christian instruction. Let us remember all the ministries which make their materials available on-line for churches in China .

Monday
In Guangdong, 70% of singles over 35 are women. The influx of workers from the inland contributes to this phenomenon; many girls trying hard to marry the Guangdong men, while men go back home to marry. Experts encourage these women to marry younger men; despite the “Marriage Laws” mandating husband must be 1-2 years older than wife. Let us remember all the single believers who experience social and parental pressure to accept a non-believer, simply to be married .

星期二
國內媒體充斥許多虛假不實的醫療、醫院及藥品廣告，連宣稱能夠醫治肝炎、愛滋病的廣告也隨處可見。官方表示，將近250萬人因誤信廣告亂吃藥、吃錯藥而延誤病情，甚至危及性命安全。同樣的，我們也必須正視某些教會傳講福音時，特意強調耶穌能治百病的偏差現象。讓我們禱告教會能教導純正的基督信仰，信徒的生命能够在主的話語上紮根。

星期三
中國每年四月的第一個週末是植樹節。1981年鄧小平倡議年滿十一歲以上的人民，每人每年栽種三到五棵樹，目前只有46%的適齡公民繼續這樣的工作。諺語有謂「十年樹木，百年樹人」，讓我們為今年度所有大學裡從事播道栽培、門徒訓練等校園福音事工禱告，求主沛賜恩雨使莊稼茁壯。

星期四
據中國官方統計，肺結核病患每年僅有13% 接受了藥物控制與治療，此意味有87%病人並未有效追蹤。每年平均新增450萬名肺結核病人，大多是來自鄉村，而每年約有十三萬人死於此病。許多在醫院擔任醫生或護士的信徒，經常支持病患，積極向病人分享福音。讓我們紀念基督徒醫護人員及他們所在的醫院，願神大大賜福他們手所做的工。

星期五
根據浙江大學對全校學生做的一項調查顯示：75%以上的學生每月日常花費在一千人民幣上下，幾乎與普通白領工作者的消費水平相近。許多人都同意大專學生的態度開放容易接受福音。但是物質上的富裕卻使他們靈性的追求上飢渴慕義的心減少許多。讓我們紀念所有參與大學福音工作的同工，也願學生們更多渴慕神的真道。

星期六
工廠工人短缺問題已逐漸浮上檯面。特別在廣州的珠江三角洲，雇主必須支付更高薪水，而工人為更好薪資跳槽的情況也屢見不鮮。目前出口商尚未將增加的人事費轉嫁到消費者身上。許多農民為了工作及下一代的教育而進城打工，農村牧者也因相同原因放棄服事，回到城市，求主特別紀念鄉村地區同工的短缺及他們家庭與孩子教育的需要。

星期日
國內大學生對高科技電子産品消費不亞于白領階級。77% 以上的大學生擁有手機且超過七成屬中高檔次產品。大半的同學擁有電腦，然多用於玩遊戲、上網聊天等娛樂活動，只有26.4%的同學用電腦來學習。對擁有電腦的信徒而言，線上的佈道講章、聖經學習光碟等資料是相當受歡迎的研經媒介，讓我們特別紀念所有在線上提供聖經資源來造就門徒的網路福音事工。

星期一
目前廣東省35歲以上未婚青年中，女性比例高達70%。這些大齡女性多是由內地進入廣東求職，而許多廣東地區的男性回內地娶妻，使得大齡女性幷不容易在廣東找到合適的伴侶。曾有專家建議她們考慮姊弟戀，但有違傳統觀念，連中國的婚姻法都規定，男比女大一兩歲較好。讓我們用禱告紀念所有單身的基督徒，特別是飽受社會輿論壓力或是父母親希望她們與非信徒結婚的單身姊妹信徒。