Greetings dear Christian Prayer Force One!
There is great comfort knowing many and hopefully all, pray for me and the kids through these updates. We need it desperately.
As most of you already know through my reporting and also if you are reading your news about China, there was a new law recently passed relating to charity. Please pray this is genuine and not just some propaganda ploy which happens so much in our world today. We have enough of it in the US, let alone other countries. I am working on plans to have a letter submitted and the content will be written differently if the "protection" center where the kids are penned up doesn't want to meet with me, Maggie and grandma Guo. 475 days is a long time to wait and the kids deserve better than what they are receiving. We deserve more respect too. If this charity law is anything of substance, then there needs to be some respect for people who have actually done a lot of charity work.
I get the "fact" they can always say, "You are not approved" or "You are a foreigner" or some bogus excuse for pushing us aside, but I am ready to die for this cause and will do everything I can to help those lovely 10 orphans out of that prison within a prison.
I have also enclosed a good article demonstrating how bad things have become here for Christians, even those who attend their own approved churches. I guess when you can't catch careful Christians, you go after the ones you "allow" to "worship".
http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/march/china-frees-lawyer-who-defended-church-crosses-zhang-kai.html
I am sending a picture of the inside of the "protection" center. You can see the basketball hoop the kids play on and some clothes hanging up which looks like pajamas for the kids. I believe the kids are hold up on the second floor probably on the left side where it is a white section. Although I could be much more aggressive in trying to communicate with the kids, I am trusting in the Lord to open doors, literally and figuratively.
It was neat I was able to climb up and take these pictures from a storage area on that side of the facility. Nobody bothered me either. I just wanted to see more of inside the place. The painted picture of a "big ancient tree" and the rainbow is a joke trying to make the place more "green" friendly for the kids. It is a very small area both in the buildings and with more buildings built where the play area is, there is not much room to do things outside, not to mention I would like to know how much radiation is in the area with the power plant across the street. It is also just cement everywhere. Concrete jungle is a far cry from all the fun they had with me going to parks, grassy areas and beautiful tourist areas. But the worst I know is not being able to see me and spend quality time studying, praying, singing and eating out. It's no wonder my name can't be mentioned because "they get too emotional" or "they get too excited". Anyone still want to vote for Bernie Sanders?
I was reading in Deuteronomy 7 and really loved verses 7-10
“The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but because the Lord loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 10 but repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroy them; He will not delay with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face."
Although it is clear that historically the people of Israel are spoken of here, I see many comparative lessons for me and the 10 and even other children who have been helped by our efforts.
Tomorrow grandma is calling again to remind the "protection" center to not ignore us, we are not going away and they need to hear our plans of willingness to work together. We want to take advantage of this new charity law and we must pray that God uses it to move the leaders to make genuine changes. God just asks us to keep knocking. As you read though that "Christianity Today" article just notice how much they can make it hurt, even financially. God has truly protected me from any of that and for those who may still have doubts about why God has me here, the article should make it abundantly clear they could be very nasty toward me. This has to be God working. Amen?!!!
Ray and the 10, praying for blessings again for Gold Flower and Gold Bar and many more orphans.
PS. Jiang Jia Yi is feeling better but still doesn't know how to swallow or see clearly. Pray for her to re-learn those abilities.
There is great comfort knowing many and hopefully all, pray for me and the kids through these updates. We need it desperately.
As most of you already know through my reporting and also if you are reading your news about China, there was a new law recently passed relating to charity. Please pray this is genuine and not just some propaganda ploy which happens so much in our world today. We have enough of it in the US, let alone other countries. I am working on plans to have a letter submitted and the content will be written differently if the "protection" center where the kids are penned up doesn't want to meet with me, Maggie and grandma Guo. 475 days is a long time to wait and the kids deserve better than what they are receiving. We deserve more respect too. If this charity law is anything of substance, then there needs to be some respect for people who have actually done a lot of charity work.
I get the "fact" they can always say, "You are not approved" or "You are a foreigner" or some bogus excuse for pushing us aside, but I am ready to die for this cause and will do everything I can to help those lovely 10 orphans out of that prison within a prison.
I have also enclosed a good article demonstrating how bad things have become here for Christians, even those who attend their own approved churches. I guess when you can't catch careful Christians, you go after the ones you "allow" to "worship".
http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/march/china-frees-lawyer-who-defended-church-crosses-zhang-kai.html
I am sending a picture of the inside of the "protection" center. You can see the basketball hoop the kids play on and some clothes hanging up which looks like pajamas for the kids. I believe the kids are hold up on the second floor probably on the left side where it is a white section. Although I could be much more aggressive in trying to communicate with the kids, I am trusting in the Lord to open doors, literally and figuratively.
It was neat I was able to climb up and take these pictures from a storage area on that side of the facility. Nobody bothered me either. I just wanted to see more of inside the place. The painted picture of a "big ancient tree" and the rainbow is a joke trying to make the place more "green" friendly for the kids. It is a very small area both in the buildings and with more buildings built where the play area is, there is not much room to do things outside, not to mention I would like to know how much radiation is in the area with the power plant across the street. It is also just cement everywhere. Concrete jungle is a far cry from all the fun they had with me going to parks, grassy areas and beautiful tourist areas. But the worst I know is not being able to see me and spend quality time studying, praying, singing and eating out. It's no wonder my name can't be mentioned because "they get too emotional" or "they get too excited". Anyone still want to vote for Bernie Sanders?
I was reading in Deuteronomy 7 and really loved verses 7-10
“The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but because the Lord loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 10 but repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroy them; He will not delay with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face."
Although it is clear that historically the people of Israel are spoken of here, I see many comparative lessons for me and the 10 and even other children who have been helped by our efforts.
Tomorrow grandma is calling again to remind the "protection" center to not ignore us, we are not going away and they need to hear our plans of willingness to work together. We want to take advantage of this new charity law and we must pray that God uses it to move the leaders to make genuine changes. God just asks us to keep knocking. As you read though that "Christianity Today" article just notice how much they can make it hurt, even financially. God has truly protected me from any of that and for those who may still have doubts about why God has me here, the article should make it abundantly clear they could be very nasty toward me. This has to be God working. Amen?!!!
Ray and the 10, praying for blessings again for Gold Flower and Gold Bar and many more orphans.
PS. Jiang Jia Yi is feeling better but still doesn't know how to swallow or see clearly. Pray for her to re-learn those abilities.
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