Prayer Ruquest 10/21-10/27

Tuesday
The global financial crisis will make this year a hard year for those who are graduating from college in China. The number of people from this group who are looking for jobs and entering the market next spring is expected to exceed six million nationwide which is an increase of seven percent over 2008. Let us pray especially for graduates who came to know Jesus in college fellowships. A large number of Christian collegians stop going to church after they graduate and are then lost to follow-up. May they learn to trust the Lord and continue to grow in their faith.

Wednesday
There are at least seventy million of the "one-child-only" generation and they have now started working or are studying in colleges. A survey revealed that nearly half of this group have no close friends and have difficulty building friendships.Even though young people are familiar with certain Christian practices from the movies, Christianity is still considered a "foreign religion" by them. We pray especially for those who are reaching out to college students and sharing their faith with young professionals.

Thursday
Not only is divorce common in China these days but it has lost the stigma it had fifteen years ago. However, sixty percent of the young people believe that children from broken families are likely to commit crimes and twenty-five percent of the student population believes divorce brings great shame on the child. Divorce is also common in today's Chinese churches. Let us remember the struggle and challenges single parents face, especially as they try to bring their children to church.

Friday
While Korea is China's third largest trading partner, China herself is Korea's largest and this bilateral trade is growing at a rate of about twenty-five percent yearly. Every week there are eight hundred thirty flights between the two countries.There are more missionaries in China from Korea than from any other country. We praise the Lord for the Korean churches and their great effort in helping the Chinese churches as well as in community outreach and student ministries.

Saturday
There are 700,000 Koreans working or living in China. Every year nearly 5,000,000 tourists from Korea visit there so the sheer number of Korean Christians plus the believers from the Chinese-Korean minority who are fluent in both Chinese and Korean constitute a large pool of laborers for Christ. There are many churches in China that have Korean connections and we pray for their ministry. May the Lord use what they do to bless more believers.

Sunday
Government has set a goal of doubling income of rural residents by 2020 from the 2008 level. In 2007 the average farmer's income was 4,140 yuan ($605,US). Due to their absolute poverty, the rural population was reduced from 250 million to 15 million people last year. Again we lift up all the rural churches and thank God for their love for the Lord and their hunger for His Word despite their poverty and constant loss of young people who leave to work in the cities.

Monday
The majority of Chinese believers are women and most of them have spouses who are not believers. Tension in their marriages is common and it is a great struggle for many of them to raise their child in a Christian family with Biblical teaching. We need to pray earnestly for the families of believers that these sisters in Christ will know the grace and mercy of our Lord as their constant source of help. We ask, too, along with millions of the mothers who pray daily that their children will turn to God.


星期二
金融危機使今年畢業生找工作雪上加霜。預計明年全國求職人士將突破六百萬人，比今年上升百分之七。許多透過校園團契而信主的大專基督徒，常常畢業後便停止聚會而不得到更進一步的跟進，我們特別為他們禱告，盼望他們能學會倚靠上帝，靈命繼續成長。

星期三
目前中國約有7,000萬獨生子女，就讀於大專院校或剛剛踏進社會工作。有調查顯示，在校大學生中，接近一半獨生子女有交友問题,難以與人建立深厚友谊。雖然年輕人不難從西方電影裡看到一些教會中的生活，然而，對他們而言,基督教仍是個"洋人的宗教".讓我們為校園褔音工作禱告, 願神大大使用這批接觸校內大學生並与年輕專業人士分享褔音的同工.

星期四
相較十五年前，今天離婚在中國已成了家常便飯，不再是個忌諱．然而，在破碎家庭成長的孩子往往容易出錯犯案；兩成五的學生認為，父母離婚會使孩子抬不起頭做人。離婚在當今中國教會也見怪莫怪．讓我們在禱告中懇切記念單親父母所面對的挑戰與掙扎，尤其是嘗試把子女帶到教會時面對的問題．

星期五
韓國是中國第三大貿易夥伴國、中韓雙邊貿易額以年均百分之二十五的速度增長；中韓每週有八百三十多航班穿梭兩國四十座城市．現時所有到訪中國的韓國宣教士，已超越任何一个其他国家．我們為韓國教會在中國教會的服事，以及社區外展和學生褔音事工，向神獻上感謝，求主賜福記念他們在福音上的擺上．

星期六
在中國長期定居或工作的韓國人達七十萬．每年，訪中的韓國旅客大約有五十萬；這批為數不少的韓國基督徒，加上在中國定居並精通中韓雙語的韓國裔中國信徒，成為中國褔音事工的得力帮助．很多中國教會與韓國的教會保持著緊密聯繫．讓我們為他們的事工代禱；願主藉著他們手所作的工祝褔更多的信徒．

星期日
2007年，農民年均收入為4140元人民幣（相等於605美元）。政府已釐定目標，要在2020年之前，使農民收入按2008年年水平計算增加一倍。農村絕對貧窮人口由1978年的兩億五千萬，降至去年的一千五百萬。讓我們為農村教會代禱，求神幫助他們即使面對貧困，及年輕人口因離鄉出城打工而不斷流失的現實，愛主之心仍不冷卻，能渴慕上帝的話語。

星期一
中國的信徒以女性居多,配偶大多是非信徒;信仰給婚姻帶來不少張力.這種家庭環境下, 要讓自己的子女獲得好像一般基督徒家庭所給予的良好聖經教育,實在困難重重.讓我們為這些信徒家庭禱告,讓這班基督徒姊妹能信靠神的恩典和慈愛,作她們隨時的幫助.我們也求神記念百萬的信徒母親每天兒女能歸向神的忠心祈禱。