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Prayer Devotional November

Let us hold on and pray!

24/10/2025

Prayer Updates

Singles Day

11/11 – record sales worldwide

24/10/2025

Prayer Updates

“Food is Heaven”

but wastage is a growing problem

24/10/2025

Prayer Updates

John And Betty Stam’s Short Lives

“For me to live is Christ and to die is gain”

24/10/2025

Prayer Updates / Featured

“Downstream” consequences

“This is China so expect success!”

24/10/2025

Prayer Updates

Bullying – a wave of online anger in China

a troublesome trend

24/10/2025

Prayer Updates

One Child Policy – some lesser known consequences

“Bring the population down. I don’t care how…”

24/10/2025

Prayer Updates / Featured

Prayer Devotional October

Pray with us!

30/09/2025

Prayer Updates

October - Festival time!

Golden week – golden opportunity.

30/09/2025

Prayer Updates

Western expats in China a dwindling breed

Western faces getting harder to spot.

30/09/2025

Prayer Updates / Featured

John Dolman

Larger than life character with a passionate love for China

30/09/2025

Prayer Updates / Featured

Zion Church Update

Zion Church under concerted attack.

30/09/2025

Prayer Updates

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24/10/2025 Prayer Devotional November

24/10/2025 Singles Day

24/10/2025 “Food is Heaven”

24/10/2025 John And Betty Stam’s Short Lives

24/10/2025 “Downstream” consequences

24/10/2025 Bullying – a wave of online anger in China

24/10/2025 One Child Policy – some lesser known consequences

30/09/2025 Prayer Devotional October

30/09/2025 October - Festival time!

30/09/2025 Western expats in China a dwindling breed

30/09/2025 John Dolman

30/09/2025 Zion Church Update

30/09/2025 Is “Lying Flat (躺平)” still a thing?

30/09/2025 “Beyond Suffering: China’s resilient Christians.”

19/08/2025 Is The Church in China Growing Or Shrinking?

19/08/2025 Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

19/08/2025 Visitors welcome!

19/08/2025 Preparing for battle

19/08/2025 “Chinese traditional culture” and the church.

19/08/2025 Should Christians play Mahjong?

19/08/2025 Prayer Devotional Sepetember

27/07/2025 Biblical symbols in plain sight across China!

27/07/2025 Women fight for equality

27/07/2025 Prayer Devotional August

27/07/2025 Gaokao changes

27/07/2025 Trouble in Xi’an

27/07/2025 China woos PhD students to come home

27/07/2025 Xinjiang Update

16/07/2025 Paths Through the Storm

16/07/2025 President Xi’s right-hand man

16/07/2025 Prayer Devotional JULY

16/07/2025 Primary School Homework – Mission Impossible!!

16/07/2025 Europe – the new mission frontier for China?!

16/07/2025 Further marriage decline

26/05/2025 The 35-Year-Old Curse

26/05/2025 The struggle to find work

26/05/2025 Preparing to Serve the Lord in China

26/05/2025 The One Body of Christ?

26/05/2025 Eastern Lightning

26/05/2025 Prayer Devotional - June

26/05/2025 “Model” village wins awards

22/04/2025 A surprising fashion show!

22/04/2025 Official crackdown on “evil cults”

22/04/2025 Former Prime Minister’s deep dive on Xi Jinping.

22/04/2025 CCSM SD card programme.

21/04/2025 Reaching Chinese Migrants

21/04/2025 Prayer Devotional May

21/04/2025 A Course Correction for China’s Entrepreneurs

15/04/2025 Prayer Devotional April

15/04/2025 From WeChat to RedNote

15/04/2025 Bibles for the Minorities

15/04/2025 Persecution – “God's work in our lives.”

15/04/2025 A teacher who doesn’t give up

27/03/2025 DeepSeek impacts on many fronts

25/02/2025 Mongolian ethnic identity under threat

25/02/2025 Prayer Devotional

25/02/2025 The Canaan Hymns

25/02/2025 Time for tea?

25/02/2025 Three Trends That Are Now Established in China

25/02/2025 God’s grace to Grace

24/01/2025 New Year in a Dong Minority Village

24/01/2025 Prayer Devotional

24/01/2025 The Three Self Church

24/01/2025 How the Braille Bible came to China

24/01/2025 Trip to China in 2025 anyone?

24/01/2025 James Legge – a different kind of missionary

20/12/2024 The Joy of New Beginnings

20/12/2024 Silk Road Adventure Part 2: Personal observations

20/12/2024 China Closes Down International Adoptions

20/12/2024 The not so “Leftover women”

20/12/2024 Prayer Devotional

20/12/2024 ML 20 years on!

28/11/2024 “All I want for Christmas!”

28/11/2024 Judy Duley – A celebration of a life well lived.

28/11/2024 Silk Road Adventure Part 1 – The Journey

28/11/2024 Good news from CCSM South Africa

28/11/2024 The amazing story of how the Bible came to China!

28/11/2024 Christmas themed goods on their way to your place

30/10/2024 I am the “Way”

30/10/2024 More than just a bakery!

30/10/2024 Happiness and Contentment after earthquake tragedy

30/10/2024 Singles’ Day 11th November

30/10/2024 Has the policy to ban private tuition backfired?

30/10/2024 New School Textbooks

30/10/2024 Prayer Devotional

29/09/2024 Gaokao and AI

29/09/2024 Prayer Devotional - Richard Anderson

29/09/2024 A Cambodian Adventure

29/09/2024 Still trusting God day by day

29/09/2024 Changsha – China’s most vibrant city

29/09/2024 China National Day

29/09/2024 Visa free travel China

31/08/2024 Sinicization – the first 5 year plan

31/08/2024 Sinicization – a look ahead – Round 2!

31/08/2024 Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival

31/08/2024 Dora Yu

31/08/2024 Prayer Devotional

31/08/2024 The work is not done

31/08/2024 5pm Prayer

31/08/2024 Running Back to China

26/07/2024 Increasing popularity of prenuptial agreements in China

26/07/2024 Richard Anderson

26/07/2024 China and Europe

26/07/2024 An Intimate Journey with God

26/07/2024 The fastest growing church in Britain – a surprise!

26/07/2024 China Firsts

27/06/2024 Eric Liddell: Brilliant athlete surrendered to God

27/06/2024 CCSM’s prayer ministry - Richard Anderson

27/06/2024 JESUS CHRIST THOUGHT

27/06/2024 Chinese Missionaries to Europe?

27/06/2024 Too many teachers!

27/06/2024 Wenzhou – Jerusalem of the East

30/05/2024 CCSM’s prayer ministry - Richard Anderson

30/05/2024 Hard Pressed But Not Crushed

30/05/2024 Daily Bread For The Children

30/05/2024 Larry and Beth

30/05/2024 Do you like it spicy?

30/05/2024 China’s Bible Women

30/05/2024 Dragon Boat Festival June 10th

28/04/2024 Sister Lucy – “The Gospel Machine!”

28/04/2024 Helpful development for visitors

28/04/2024 Rags To Riches in China

28/04/2024 Trouble at the border

28/04/2024 Another way across the border

28/04/2024 Exciting Developments for FieldPartner

01/04/2024 Qingming Festival 4th April, 2024

01/04/2024 The more things change the more they stay the same!

01/04/2024 10 cups of tea

01/04/2024 CCSM’s prayer ministry - Richard Anderson

01/04/2024 Trendy Chengdu

01/04/2024 Brother Andrew， God’s Smuggler

05/03/2024 Watch in 2024

05/03/2024 John Sung – unsung servant

05/03/2024 God speaks Tibetan

04/03/2024 Walter’s Bible

01/03/2024 An NGO sharing love and bringing hope.

08/02/2024 Are Chinese students studying overseas again?

07/02/2024 Seeing it first hand – the changing face of China's church

01/02/2024 A caring ministry crossing cultures

31/01/2024 Chinese New Year 2024

19/01/2024 Visa-free travel to China

17/01/2024 Panda diplomacy

12/01/2024 Wang Zhiming – a hero of the faith

10/01/2024 Africa to China with Love

09/01/2024 Why Pray for China?

05/01/2024 Living day to day – trusting God absolutely

01/01/2024 The Power of Prayer - Learning from J O Fraser

20/12/2023 Golden Years

11/12/2023 China's barefoot doctors

09/12/2023 They Forgot to Build the Roof

07/12/2023 Taiwan, A Different Door to Walk Through

06/12/2023 Population and Pensions in China

03/12/2023 Christmas in China

01/12/2023 From Candy Canes to Christ - An Update

15/11/2023 “When bad things happen.. we rest in Him”

01/11/2023 A Most Unlikely Assignment!

15/10/2023 Partner for Life

02/10/2023 Miao – Faith Comes by Hearing

01/10/2023 Cui Maohu崔茂虎 Arrested

21/09/2023 Chinese Entering by Southern Border

17/09/2023 Christian Human Rights Lawyer ‘Disappeared’

31/08/2023 Bibles For China Con-Man

30/08/2023 Approaching Bible Crisis

28/08/2023 Post Covid Strategies

06/08/2023 Searchable Religious Cleric Database

04/08/2023 Luxury Wheelchairs and Crippled Economies

04/08/2023 August News Briefs

01/08/2023 Still In The Wake

01/08/2023 China's 'Sinicization' Of Religion

01/08/2023 World Uyghur Christian Union

31/07/2023 Patriotic Education Law

01/07/2023 Three Pastors Who Lost Their Jobs

09/06/2023 Tongues of Fire

07/06/2023 The Wisdom of Mortals

06/06/2023 Chinese Historical Christian Database

05/06/2023 The Scholar's Gown

01/06/2023 Is Lu ShaYe A Lone Wolf Or Leader Of The Pack?

01/06/2023 News Briefs -June 2023

03/05/2023 Can China Calm the Storm?

02/05/2023 The Good and the Bad

01/05/2023 Li Qiang, China’s New Premier

01/05/2023 Crossing Oceans

01/05/2023 Preaching for the Party: Mandatory

01/05/2023 News Briefs - May 2023

18/04/2023 Chinese Spiritual Civilisation

15/04/2023 Promoting Putonghua for a New Journey

12/04/2023 An Opportunity Missed

01/04/2023 News Briefs – April 2023

01/04/2023 Uyghur pastor released after 15yrs

02/03/2023 Is The Commission Still Great?

01/03/2023 Renewal in Thinking (Part 1)

01/03/2023 Ernie Bot

01/03/2023 John Kuhn longed for this Day

01/03/2023 Population and Pensions in China

01/03/2023 News Briefs – March 2023

01/03/2023 Nana & Lulu

01/02/2023 God’s Surprising “Helpers” in Evangelising China!

08/01/2023 Weary the Saints.

03/01/2023 Wa Minority

30/12/2022 Travel Plans 2023

30/12/2022 Night is Not Here

30/12/2022 News Briefs - January 2023

30/12/2022 Evolution of Empathy

02/12/2022 News Briefs - December 2022

02/12/2022 Re-evaluating the Bible

01/12/2022 Renewal in Thinking (Part 2 )

01/12/2022 Deciphering the Numbers

30/11/2022 Implications of October CCP Meeting

02/11/2022 A Life for the Word

02/11/2022 Young Pastors Leaving

01/11/2022 Human Rights Council Vote for Silence

01/11/2022 One Chinese Certainty and One Chinese Uncertainty

01/11/2022 News from the Field – November 2022

01/11/2022 Shanghai Co-operation Organisation

02/10/2022 China's New School Textbooks

02/10/2022 News Briefs October 2022

01/10/2022 Righteous Among the Nations

22/09/2022 Rural Poverty Alleviation – Joy, Heartache and Opportunity

18/09/2022 XINJIANG: China's Gateway to the World - Book review

15/09/2022 Increasingly Interconnected

01/09/2022 News Briefs - September 2022

01/09/2022 Prayer Requests from China

01/09/2022 China's Influence on Religion Spreads Beyond Its Borders

01/09/2022 Cui Maohu 崔茂虎

01/08/2022 Scattered but not distracted

01/08/2022 The Wanderers of Chengdu

01/08/2022 The Seeds Of Life

01/08/2022 Pre-approval of Comments

01/08/2022 Is it Good Bye Hukou?

04/07/2022 Better To Suffer for Doing Right

01/07/2022 Riding The Covid Rollercoaster

01/07/2022 What is Formalism?

01/07/2022 The Xinjiang Police Files

27/06/2022 News Briefs - July 2022

01/06/2022 Popular Christian Website Closed

01/06/2022 News Briefs - June 2022

01/06/2022 Sallie Holmes

01/06/2022 March On!

30/05/2022 We (Cannot) Chat

01/05/2022 Christian Re-education Camp survivor comes to USA

30/04/2022 The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same

30/04/2022 News Briefs - May 2022

01/04/2022 A New Man

06/03/2022 Release Approaching

08/02/2022 Family Education Promotion Law

08/02/2022 Olympics with a Shared Future

07/02/2022 The Disappeared Church

07/02/2022 A Glimmer of Hope

01/02/2022 Shenzhen Reformed Holy Church

03/01/2022 Book Sellers Pay Heavy Price

03/01/2022 News Briefs January 2022

01/01/2022 CPEC - A complicated friendship

06/12/2021 The Question of UBI - Part One

06/12/2021 The Question of UBI - Part Two

06/12/2021 Christmas in China

01/12/2021 News Briefs December 2021

29/11/2021 Village Revolution

01/11/2021 News Briefs -November 2021

01/11/2021 China’s unhealed wound - Part 1

01/11/2021 China’s unhealed wound - Part 2

01/11/2021 Olive Tree Bible App Removed

05/10/2021 The Assassin’s Mace

29/09/2021 Private Education Law

29/09/2021 Early Rain

29/09/2021 October Briefs

28/09/2021 The English Doctor

16/09/2021 The Müller Connection

06/09/2021 Churches Targeted For Persecution

03/09/2021 Double Reduction Policy

02/09/2021 High Road To Change

01/09/2021 SD Cards - The AppSTER Report

20/08/2021 Choosing Wisely

14/08/2021 DNA Dynamics

12/08/2021 Intrigue not Abandonment

12/08/2021 His Grace Abounds In 2021

07/08/2021 Xu Xiaohong 徐晓鸿 - The Patriot

02/08/2021 When God Calls

01/08/2021 The Pastoring Reality

01/08/2021 Religious Clergy Cards

01/08/2021 Reimagining Human Rights

01/08/2021 Missionary Preparation

31/07/2021 The Rewards of Teaching

20/07/2021 Servants and Spies

10/07/2021 Gu Mengfei 顾梦飞

07/07/2021 The Great Value of Pastors

01/07/2021 China News Brief

20/06/2021 Pray For Authorities

10/06/2021 Lily's Story

10/06/2021 Lily's Story - Part 2

10/06/2021 Pastor Wu Wei 吴巍牧师

01/06/2021 Vision Transition

28/05/2021 What a Difference 30 Years Makes

21/05/2021 Perserverence in Trials

07/05/2021 Don't Spoil The Party

01/05/2021 MOOCs

01/05/2021 New Frontier for Mission

22/04/2021 Joe’s Story – an update.

20/04/2021 One Certainty, One Hope

18/04/2021 Death – A Subject To Avoid

12/04/2021 Improper Punishments

18/03/2021 Called by God Into the Heart of the Dragon

16/03/2021 My God Is Free

14/03/2021 Gods Are Expensive

12/03/2021 Families Divided

26/02/2021 The Person I Want to Thank the Most

20/02/2021 The Silver Halo

15/02/2021 Biometric Birth Certificates Battle Trafficking

13/02/2021 Book Review of: China’s Harvest Fields

17/01/2021 News and Insights in Brief

16/01/2021 CCSM Report from the Field

14/01/2021 Where are they now?

12/01/2021 Teaching in Isolation

21/12/2020 Hong Kong Security Law

19/12/2020 Zhaba

17/12/2020 China’s Relationship with India

15/12/2020 Swedish Mission in China – Part 2

12/12/2020 Swedish Mission in China – Part 1

13/10/2020 Civilization Practise Stations

20/09/2020 No Immunity

18/09/2020 Email From China

16/09/2020 Leaving the Party

12/09/2020 Not home yet

02/09/2020 For Love, Money or Status

19/08/2020 Eziza’s Choice

18/08/2020 Social Welfare Stopped

16/08/2020 Ngari Tibet Relocations

14/08/2020 Ngari Prefecture – In Transition

12/08/2020 The Long Walk

18/07/2020 Chokehold on Publishers

14/07/2020 The Chosen

20/06/2020 Project Pearl

18/06/2020 Chinese Missionaries and the Present Pandemic Crisis.

16/06/2020 Sitting Alone

14/06/2020 The Korean Minority 朝鲜族

14/05/2020 A great time to be a Bible College student.

13/05/2020 Äynu - Abdal (ئابدال), Ainu 艾努人

12/05/2020 No Help in Sight

13/04/2020 The Wenzhou Flame

11/04/2020 The Kazakh Minority

09/04/2020 Xenophobia Rising

05/04/2020 Who is Xia Baolong?

08/03/2020 Suffocating Laws

17/02/2020 Generations of the Future

13/02/2020 Organ Harvesting

01/01/2020 Rightly Dividing the Gospel

18/12/2019 Chinese in a Jewish Homeland

17/12/2019 The Race toward a Cashless Society

15/12/2019 Dreams and Visions

11/12/2019 Intercession is Crucial

13/11/2019 Lame Huang

11/11/2019 Business Culture

05/11/2019 A Kingdom Across Borders

16/10/2019 The Veracity of the Scriptures

16/10/2019 UBS Letter of Assurance

14/10/2019 Signing up for the Bible

11/10/2019 Dying for Immortality

12/09/2019 Give Me Your Phone

10/09/2019 Taking God out of the Classics

11/07/2019 “We Need To Do More” - says 12 year old Intercession Team Member

07/07/2019 From Candy Canes To Christ (Part 2.)

07/06/2019 One Child Nation

05/06/2019 150 Pastors Arrested in Raid

03/06/2019 This Is Also Where I Stand!

09/05/2019 Attitudes to Adoption

07/05/2019 Paying Respect

03/05/2019 Wang Yi

06/04/2019 Tribute to Samuel Lamb

01/04/2019 The Dong People

28/02/2019 Remember Xinjiang

27/02/2019 Visions Beyond the Veil

25/02/2019 Blessed to Be A Blessing

05/02/2019 Wumeng

03/02/2019 Theology in the TSPM

01/02/2019 Youth Under Pressure

30/01/2019 Child-Friendly Festivals

29/01/2019 The Martyrs’ Legacy

23/12/2018 Not Guantanamo

22/12/2018 The House Churches

21/12/2018 Younuo

19/12/2018 Counting the Cost

05/12/2018 Church and Home Schools

02/12/2018 Opportunity in a Difficult Context

30/11/2018 In Jesus Name

28/11/2018 TSPM Structure

26/11/2018 God is Red – Book Review

25/11/2018 The Amdo Tibetans

13/11/2018 Alopen

07/11/2018 Close To Home?

07/11/2018 Two Churches, One Land

07/11/2018 Project Dragonfly

07/11/2018 The Lost Kingdom

01/10/2018 Update on the Social Credit System

01/10/2018 Joyful Ministry

01/10/2018 High School Cultural Exchange Trip 2018.

01/10/2018 The Wild West

01/10/2018 One Land, Two Churches

10/09/2018 The Central Theme

10/09/2018 Systematic Church Suppression

06/09/2018 The Rural Challenges

04/09/2018 Medical Teams – Family Affairs.

02/09/2018 The Beautiful Game in China

30/07/2018 The World According To Xi

30/07/2018 Weiqi and the Great Commission!

30/07/2018 Qinghai Kazakh

30/07/2018 Not Singled Out

30/07/2018 Minorities Update

30/07/2018 Returnee Model

01/07/2018 Jonê Tibetans (Also known as Choni, Chone, Cone, Zhuōní Xiàn)

30/06/2018 Joe's Story

30/06/2018 Cultic “Messianic” Movements

31/05/2018 Dali and the Bai People

31/05/2018 Sinicizing Chinese Christianity

31/05/2018 Free Bible Online

31/05/2018 Going the Distance

31/05/2018 Preparing for Persecution

30/04/2018 Bibles Expelled from Online Stores

29/04/2018 SARA Abolished

28/04/2018 Cultural Revolution Revisited?

27/04/2018 A Daughter’s Story

05/04/2018 Xi Extends Term

04/04/2018 FieldPartner International

03/04/2018 Prepare to be Unprepared

02/04/2018 Dual Passports

01/04/2018 Kiwis in China

27/02/2018 A tribute to an Awesome Young Man

27/02/2018 VPN - Virtual Private Networks

26/02/2018 Rent-A-Boyfriend

26/02/2018 Future Proofing

29/01/2018 WeChat ID & Wallet

29/01/2018 Mang People

29/01/2018 The Space Between Memories – Book Review

29/01/2018 Neighbourhood Committees

29/01/2018 Revised Religious Regulations Become Law

29/12/2017 Public Amenity Revolution

28/12/2017 Wa Minority

27/12/2017 Skype Banned

25/12/2017 Mercy Team October 2017

24/12/2017 Macau - City of Sin

26/11/2017 Yiwu - Santa’s Workshop

24/11/2017 Xiandao (Zhangta)

23/11/2017 Medical project expands

21/11/2017 Season of Opportunity

20/11/2017 Love in Action

19/11/2017 Thoughts for a New Era

30/10/2017 The Xiangcheng

30/10/2017 God is in Control

30/10/2017 New Religious Regulations Passed

30/10/2017 Driven to Suicide

30/10/2017 Love is Patient

29/09/2017 19th Party Congress

29/09/2017 “Make This Worth It”

29/09/2017 Changsha

29/09/2017 Hands-On Service

29/09/2017 Pastoral Ministry

29/09/2017 Short Wave – Long Reach

24/08/2017 Forgotten, Avoided and Neglected

21/08/2017 China Summer Camps 2017

18/08/2017 Life in China

15/08/2017 Eastern Lightning

26/07/2017 Bringing Hope

23/07/2017 After I Die

21/07/2017 AppSTER Project Expands

19/07/2017 Solving the Healthcare Problem

15/07/2017 Deaths in Pakistan

27/06/2017 Xiongan New Area

25/06/2017 Summer Camps 2017

20/06/2017 A Harsh Winter Season?

30/05/2017 Answering a Call

29/05/2017 What Christianity in China is Really Like

29/05/2017 The Jingpo

21/05/2017 A Full Library of Materials

17/05/2017 Fighting Despair

26/04/2017 Blessings or Curses

22/04/2017 Chinese Worldview

19/04/2017 Sinicization

16/04/2017 Mentors Needed

13/04/2017 One Belt, One Road

27/03/2017 A Famine of ‘Good Samaritans’

22/03/2017 Difficult Questions for China’s Missionaries

18/03/2017 A Life Exchange

13/03/2017 A Search for Deeper Meaning

29/01/2017 “The Harvest is so Ripe”

27/01/2017 China’s Invisible Children

23/01/2017 Smog Season

19/01/2017 Giving up on Life

15/01/2017 Foreign NGO Law

24/12/2016 China’s Diabetes Problem

24/12/2016 Reaching the Ethnic Minorities

16/12/2016 594 Billionaires

13/12/2016 Empty Heart Disease

11/12/2016 The Role of Religion

21/11/2016 To Every People Group

19/11/2016 The Chinese Dream

17/11/2016 Launching our New Project

15/11/2016 Xi as the Core

13/11/2016 Rural Changes

22/10/2016 Cultural Challenges

19/10/2016 China’s Quest for a Moral Compass

15/10/2016 Chinese Returnees

13/10/2016 Draft Religious Law Revisions

25/09/2016 Forced to Confess

22/09/2016 “Like a Treasure”

19/09/2016 Praying for Spiritual Breakthroughs

16/09/2016 A Smartphone World

13/09/2016 The 5 Challenges

26/08/2016 End-of-Life Care

24/08/2016 A Mobile Student Population

22/08/2016 A Season of Disasters

18/08/2016 China - land of contrasts

28/07/2016 Success – a Spiritual Disaster?

26/07/2016 Touching Lives

24/07/2016 New Law for Foreign NGOs

21/07/2016 Combatting Domestic Violence

13/07/2016 Water Shortage

25/06/2016 New Followers of Jesus

22/06/2016 One Fifth of China’s Children

16/06/2016 Moved by the Compassion of Strangers

13/06/2016 The Cultural Revolution - 50 Years On

30/05/2016 Investing in Children’s Lives

13/05/2016 President Xi on Religion

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