请求为守望教会和中国的福音传播代祷

中国的家庭教会，也就是不愿意加入政府统一思想的三自教会的中国教会正在受到更大迫害。请全世界的弟兄姐妹为正遭受迫害的兄弟姐妹恳切祷告，支持他们，求神保守，看护，坚固他们。也求神感动政府领导人的心,与教会共同寻求解决方法.神与我们同在.阿们
感谢赞美主！

Dear Pastors, brothers and sisters:
Please help to distribute the email to the congregations of all churches you know around the world. We do need deeply pray for ShouWang church. Please alway pay attention to the web www.ChinaAid.net.  or www.ChinaAidorg 
 
The congregations of our Faith Chinese Church will have fast prayer link taking turn to do fasting for every meal https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aqyri76AVBr_dHZIRFBwZC1VQ1d0MmcxZ2VUdDUwRkE&hl=en&authkey=CLuJuogJ#gid=0  which is lead by a couple Nim-on/Wai-hai. Let's pray together for the great spritual war. Thank you.

Blessings

溫哥華信友堂主任牧師洪予健及教牧團隊 敬上

Rev. Yujian HONG & the Pastoral Team
Faith Chinese Baptist Church, Vancouver

Blessings

Tel：  +1-604-327-1313(church)
溫哥華浸信會信友堂網站:  http://www.fcnabc.org
Faith Chinese North American Baptist Church
6858 Fraser St,Vancouver B.C.,V5X 3V1
 
AP report this moroning---Underground Beijing church members detained - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110417/ap_on_re_as/as_china_underground_church

Underground Beijing church members detained

AP – A plain-clothes man and a uniformed police officer walk towards a police car near an area where members …

By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press –Sun April 17   9:29am ET
BEIJING – Nearly 50 members of an underground Beijing church were detained Sunday and its leaders were kept under house arrest as part of a crackdown on the unregistered congregation, a U.S.-based rights group said.

Jin Tianming, pastor of the Shouwang church, was detained by Beijing police Saturday nightand released Sunday morning, Bob Fu, president of the China Aid Association, a Christian rights group, said in an email.

Fu said 47 Shouwang members who tried to worship in an open-air public space on Sunday were detained and all the church's pastors and leaders were under house arrest or in detention. In an earlier statement, Fu said somechurch members had lost their homes or jobs amid an official campaign to shut down the church.

While China's Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, Christians are required to worship in churches run by state-controlled organizations, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement for Protestants and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association for Catholics.

However, more than 60 million Christians are believed to worship in unregistered "house" churches, compared to about 20 million in the state churches, according to scholars and church activists. The growth of house churches has accelerated in recent years, producing larger congregations that are far more conspicuous than the small groups of friends and neighbors that used to worship in private homes that gave the movement its name.

Their expansion and growing influence have unsettled China's rulers, always suspicious of any independent social group that could challenge Communist authority.

Shouwang members have for years been at odds with Beijing officials over their right to worship. Tensions escalated earlier this month when the church was evicted from its usual rented place of worship, a Beijing restaurant. Church leaders decided to temporarily hold services in a public space, prompting police to tape off the area and detain anyone who showed up to take part, with nearly 200 people kept at a local school for several hours.

A second attempt at open-air services in northwest Beijing's Haidian district resulted in Sunday's 47 detentions. Numerous uniformed and plainclothes police were parked near the office and shopping complex whereShouwang members were supposed to gather. An Associated Press journalist was followed and warned by plainclothes police not to conduct any interviews in the area.

A woman who answered the phone at the Haidian Public Security Bureau referred calls to the bureau's propaganda department, where the phone rang unanswered. Calls to the Beijing Public Security Bureau also were not answered.

Shouwang tried in 2006 to register with the government but its application was rejected, the church said in a statement distributed by Fu.

"Shouwang is not willing to make any compromise on the stand of our faith despite that we are willing to register with the government," the statement said. "We cannot join an official state institution."

In December 2009, the church bought property in northwest Beijing for regular Sunday services but government interference prevented the group from occupying the space, it said.

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更新：2011年4月17日北京守望教会遭受逼迫
对华援助协会 2011. 04. 17
对华援助协会获悉，北京时间星期六（2011年4月16日）晚8点，北京守望教会的主任牧师金天明被海淀分局传唤，次日（星期天）早8点被送回家。
根据目前的消息，星期日上午参加守望教会户外崇拜的基督徒中，仍有47人被抓走，包括一些上周就被抓过的。另外，晓峰牧师和另一同工也被抓到派出所，其他长老仍被国保人员堵在家中。
当时在聚会地点，那些国保在大楼前，故意留了一条通道。部分教会弟兄姐妹上去后，在平台上刚刚开始唱诗歌，就被堵住全部抓走。

Saturday, April 16, 2011
UPDATE: Detained Shouwang Church Pastors Released, Believers Detained for Second Attempt at Outdoor Worship
(Beijing -- April 17, 2011) Two pastors of the Beijing house church that tried to worship outdoors last weekend were released late Saturday and early Sunday morning, but 30 members of Shouwang Church who attempted to worship Sunday morning at the same site for the second week in a row have been detained, ChinaAid has learned.
 
Shouwang Church's senior pastor Jin Tianming was returned home early Sunday morning, and Pastor Li Xiaobai and his wife were sent home late Saturday night. Both were taken away by police Saturday evening.
 
Many members of Shouwang Church were restricted to their homes Sunday morning and unable to attend Shouwang Church's second outdoor worship service this year. Of those who were able to show up again at the same outdoor worship site where they had gathered last Sunday, at least 30 have been detained.
 
Last Sunday, 169 church members were rounded up by police and held for up to 24 hours when they attempted to hold a worship service in a public plaza in western Beijing.
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最新消息：（溫哥華時間4月16日7:30pm收到）

小白牧师昨晚被送回家中，天明牧师今天早上被送回家了。今天多数人被堵在家里，去的人将近30人被带到派出所。---守望：冠輝

Subject: Fwd: In a mass police action, all of Shouwang Church's leaders detained or put under house arrest
From: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:41:28 -0500
To: [email protected]

Here are two press releases we issued for Shouwang in both Chinese and English. The WEA is drafting a statement now.  ChinaAid
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金天明牧师：

不、等等，先说一句再走出来也不迟——

“撒 但，退我后边去吧！”（太16:23）

北京守望教会的金天明牧师被海淀公安带走
对华援助协会  2011. 04. 16
北京时间星期六（2011年4月16日）晚8点，曾在上个礼拜天因被迫在户外聚会而遭打压的北京守望教会，其主任牧师金天明被海淀分局传唤带走。李小白牧师夫妇也继上周末被拘押两天后，再次被公安抓走。明天星期日，守望教会将在与上周日相同的指定地点进行户外崇拜聚会。
（图片说明：2009年11月1日守望教会被迫在海淀公园聚会，金天明牧师在风雪中讲道。11月8日继续坚持户外聚会，但早上9点多，金天明牧师被国保抓走，3个多小时后释放，其余教会负责人和信徒受阻不得进入公园，但是坚持在公园门口聚会45分钟，之后散去。参看对华援助协会2009年11月8日的新闻：http://www.chinaaid.net/2011/04/blog-post_6547.html）
代祷事项：
明天又是主日了。大批的守望基督徒被软禁在家，估计很多人都出不了门。为我们亲爱的弟兄姊妹祷告，最近很多人受到来自政府的各种压力。有些租房的弟兄姊妹，因政府给房东压力，被迫搬家，不知往哪里去（教会内弟兄姊妹会尽量互相帮助）；有些被单位解职；有人被勒令写不参加守望教会的保证书；……求主加给大家力量！也求主怜悯在上掌权者，软化他们的心，不要用神所赐的权柄来压制神的百姓。
对华援助协会的负责人傅希秋牧师就金天明牧师和李小白牧师夫妇被公安带走这一逼迫升级的事件，表示震惊和强烈的谴责。同时，迫切呼吁中国的广大教会特别是家庭教会、世界福音派联盟、世界范围内的基督教会和机构，能够同心代祷，声援守望教会，谴责北京政府公然违反宪法和联合国的人权公约，侵犯公民信仰自由权利的行径。
全世界的基督徒和教会已经看到，北京守望教会并不是孤独的，众教会肢体正在用基督教特有的属灵方式支持守望教会。2011年4月13日，北京教牧联祷会 发布代祷呼吁信，号召用禁食祷告的方式支持守望教会。点击这里阅读这封呼吁信。

附 1：《争战的本质》作者：金天明牧师

争战的本质
4月10号户外敬拜中一百六十多位弟兄姊妹被关押，少则7-8小时、多则16-24小时，在被关押期间每一位弟兄姊妹经受了各种煎熬和考验；特别是小白牧师夫妇，他们被关押了48小时，在被关押期间他们受了很多的苦，冰霞师母一直禁食祷告，他们靠着主最终经受住了考验。

小白牧师出来时，负责谈话的市国保代表领导让他捎信息给守望治委会（包括出来后有关人员也讲了大体相同的话），转达的主要意思是这样：① 17号无论如何守望必须回到室内；②过17号后让现治委会下台（他们要做），重新组阁新治委会来继续带领守望教会，不过，下台的治委会成员以后还可以在教会中讲道。

讲到这里，我必须得先说一句才能够继续分享下去——

“撒但，退我们后边去吧！”

到了现在，我们无需再用更多语言说明户外敬拜的本质问题了，也不必再疑惑，这就是一场真真实实的属灵争战。魔鬼撒但借着上帝所赋予国家的政权，来拆毁上帝的教会，牠的魔爪终于显露并已经伸向基督的教会。为此，我还是要用治委会4月10日户外敬拜通报中的那段话来表明我对此的态度：

“我们相信，教会是基督的教会，基督是教会的头。教会理应唯独尊耶和华我们的主为神。除祂以外别无他神。因此，教会不当受任何外在势力的控制或支配，而只属于我们的主。这次的户外敬拜所表达的就是我们这种毫无妥协的信仰立场，而且我们认为，持守这样的信仰立场本身就是一种敬拜。因此，我们相信我们的户外敬拜在主面前是蒙悦纳的。”

弟兄姊妹们，这就是我不能不走出去的原因，这也是我认为教会应当走出去的原因，这更是我今天靠着主再次呼唤你们——我亲爱的弟兄姊妹——无论付出多少代价，都要走出去的原因。为着主和祂自己的教会，我们一同走出去吧！

不、等等，先说一句再走出来也不迟——
    
“撒但，退我后边去吧！”（太16:23）
我们不丧胆。外体虽然毁坏，内心却一天新似一天。我们这至暂至轻的苦楚，要为我们成就极重无比永远的荣耀。原来我们不是顾念所见的，乃是顾念所不见的，因为所见的是暂时的，所不见的是永远的。（圣经 哥林多后书 4章16下-18节）
附2：
北京教牧联祷会 2011年4月13日发布代祷呼吁信，号召用禁食祷告的方式支持守望教会。
以下教会已经认领了不同的禁食祷告日：
周一：锡安教会
周二：雅歌教会，葡萄园教会，果树林教会
周三：城市复兴教会，永丰教会，三一教会
周四：安华教会，载道教会，惠民教会
周五：麦子教会，爱加倍教会
周六：橄榄树教会，明光教会