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Last Chance to Register for the Simulcast! Posted: 12 Mar 2013 01:21 PM PDT Secret Church will be here before you know it! We wanted to let you know that the deadline to register as a simulcast host and receive the 200+ page study guides with your order is March 18. (You can still register after that, but you won’t be able to get the study guides.) We have several new things we wanted to make sure you're aware of as well. Click the links below for more information. Live Spanish translation FREE access for those in ministry overseas (outside of the USA and Canada) Postponed viewing or rewind/re-watch availability for 30 days following March 29 For more information about the simulcast or to register as a host, visit LifeWay.com/SecretChurch.

To Be Hui Is To Be Muslim Posted: 12 Mar 2013 05:54 AM PDT Throughout the month of March, we will be posting daily about Chinese Muslims, the prayer focus for our upcoming Secret Church gathering. We invite you to learn about Chinese Muslims and pray with us for God's glory to be made known among them. If you would like to read other posts in this blog series, you can find them here. After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. Revelation 7:9 In a country of more than 1.3 billion people, where more than 90% of the population is made up of one huge people group – the Han Chinese – and the remaining 10% is made up of 56 different minority groups, it is not difficult to see why the Hui minority would hold strongly to their cultural and religious roots. Because they don't have a different language and they don't actually look much different from the Han, they hold tightly to what they do have – religion. For the Hui of China, to be Hui is to be Muslim. To not be Muslim is to not be Hui. Photo Courtesy of Pray for the Hui For this reason, you could sit and talk with a nice Hui man all afternoon. You can tell him all about Jesus, why He came and why we need Him, and he might even agree with you! But at the end of the conversation when you ask him if he wants to believe in Him, he says, "Of course not! I'm Hui! But you should go tell other people about this because they really need to know." Because being Hui and being Muslim are tied so closely together, imagine what happens when one of them does believe. No one knows who he is anymore, his family, friends and community quite possibly reject him… and at the very least they feel rejected and now see the new believer as a traitor. PLEASE PRAY In many areas of China, Hui are connected through clan relationships. Pray that not only individuals but also whole families come to faith in Jesus. Pray for cultural sensitivity, awareness and respect among believers as we interact with new believers from among the Hui. This post was re-posted from Pray4Hui.com. For more information about and prayer requests for Chinese Muslims, please visit Pray for the Hui and follow @pray4hui on Twitter.

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