China Aid has posted an update concerning the latest in their outdoor worship services. Please do not forget to pray for this body of believers.
Dear brothers and sisters:
Peace in the Lord! On June 26th, Shouwang had her twelfth Sunday outdoor worship service. Brothers and sisters continue to seek and worship our God with passion and hope.
June 26th, Beijing, sunny. In the past weekend, many believers who are on the list of local police stations were detained at home, and some individuals were taken to hotels to be detained. Therefore, only a few dozen people managed to arrive at the planned location for outdoor worship on Sunday. Some believers who tried to enter the planned location and some who were nearby were taken away by police waiting there. As far as we know, at least fourteen believers were taken away on Sunday morning (it does not include one believer who was taken to a hotel by local police on Friday night), and then were sent to ten different local police stations. Till 10pm of 26th, all of them were released. Besides believers from Shouwang Church, there were several believers from other churches and from other areas (we do not know their names) taken to police stations when they came to join the outdoor worship service. Among those who were taken to police stations, at least two sisters had long conversations with several pastors (two of them said that they were from Chaoyang Church) from TSPM churches who were invited by police stations. Those pastors tried to persuade them to give up attending outdoor worship, but to join TSPM churches; their behavior once again reveals the nature of TSPM as a patriotic organization.
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