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Foreign Workers Posted: 19 Mar 2013 08:30 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. Photo Courtesy of Pray for the Hui …and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. (2 Timothy 2:2 ESV) In the late 1800s and early 1900s there were a few missionaries who trained in Islamic apologetics as well as learning Arabic and Chinese in order to minister to the Hui and other Muslim minorities of China. Two of the most well known are William Borden, who died while in training, and George Harris, who saw about 20 Chinese Muslims come to saving faith. Following 1951, when all foreign workers were asked to leave China, 40 years passed without foreign outreach to the Hui. In the 1980s foreign workers began to trickle back into China. They used creative methods of access, like teaching English or studying the Chinese language at universities. God shared His heart for the Chinese Muslims with some of these workers. In the last decade, the number of foreign workers focused on the Hui has begun to increase, yet the ratio of workers to Hui people is still very low. One way to improve this ratio is for foreigners to train the Han Chinese to reach the Hui. People who are directly engaged in outreach to the Hui themselves are the best ones to do this training. Most foreign workers face significant linguistic, cultural and climatic hurdles before becoming effective; experience shows that it generally takes 10 years for a cross-cultural missionary to become a fully effective change-agent in the host culture. Since the amount of time taken for a Hui person to believe is related to how long it takes the witness to clearly present the gospel, there is a great need for workers to persevere in the early years of ministry before any Hui come to faith. PLEASE PRAY Ask God to give every good and faithful worker at least three Hui “Timothys” to disciple. Ask God to give both Han and Hui believers a burden to be disciple-makers among the Hui. Pray for effective transfer of knowledge and skills from foreign workers to Chinese workers. 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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