Dear Partners in Prayers,
As the Hong Kong riot escalates and clashes with police continue, we need your fervent prayer. Please pray for peace and protection of Hong Kong. Schools and Universities have closed their classes this week. The railroad and metro systems are under attack and many stations are closed this week. My granddaughter cannot go to Hong Kong to attend her kindergarten in the New Territories there for almost a week now.
As for inside mainland China, the religious environment has become more and more restricted and sensitive. Many house churches are forced to close down and hundreds of pastors and leaders are detained and imprisoned. Some of them had disappeared after they were arrested. Even the TSPM churches (who are registered with the government) do not allow young people 18 and under to enter their fellowships. Now, many TSPM churches do not have Sunday schools in their program.
With this new environment, we are urgently training our former Bible school graduates’ churches to reorganize into small house groups instead of meeting in larger congregations on Sundays. They will continue to meet at various homes during the week. But hundreds more cell group leaders are needed and we are publishing our new 《Cell Leaders Training Manual》and our《8 Characters Leadership Dynamic》 curriculum to help them. Some of these churches are in our neighborhood cities where we can consult them closely. Some of them we have to travel long distance to the northern and eastern provinces to train them.
One of our students’ church, Living Spring, has recently been asked to stop their Sunday meetings by the local Religious Affair Bureau. They even forced the landlord of the meeting place to kick the church out without renewal of the lease contract. Now they have to regroup their meetings into 5 different home groups in various districts. Now, me and my wife are also requested to become the consultants of the church. My wife Queenie will be responsible for the prayer and family counseling ministry. I will be responsible to train their leaders about cell church management and church administration.
We need to raise USD 32,000 (=HK $ 249,600) for our Cell Church Leadership training program and counselors training in 2020. Some of us need to travel to various provinces in the north to train more home group leaders. Please pray for our safety.
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Chuck Chan
Leadership Club, Limited
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