Please take a few minutes right now to watch this video, which is from our friends at China Aid, about our precious sister and brother in Christ who are suffering for simply following Jesus.

Last month we started the new year by setting a goal to pray for at least one restricted nation. Since today is February 1st, I wanted to remind all of you to pick a new country to pray for, or to keep praying for the country you had picked last month. Last month I prayed for Libya and this month I'll be praying for Columbia. What restricted nation are you picking this month?

SHANXI--On November 17, 2009, nearly 600 Christian brothers and sisters gathered together in Yangshupo Village in Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province. In the afternoon of November 18th, armed police guards arrived at the gathering site and besieged the group. The police detained all 500 house church attenders on the site for several hours, before arresting Ren Boqing, Jia Jun and Gao Wenjun, church members who drove vans to help bring many of the Christians to the church meeting.

Watchman Nee, the Chinese church leader, had only six hours. He must lead the guard in front of his prison cell to Christ so that his letter of encouragement to Christians outside the prison could be delivered.