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Tips for Simulcast Hosts: The Schedule Posted: 23 Mar 2013 10:00 AM PDT The Secret Church simulcast is next week! If you’re hosting, there are a few things you might want to think through prior to the start of our time together next Friday night.   Announcements Just before the simulcast begins, you will have 5 minutes to make announcements that are important for those attending at your location. Some things you might want to mention: location of bathrooms and water fountains, silence cell phones, instructions for breaks. Musical Worship The worship team from Brook Hills will lead in musical worship at the beginning and end of the evening. The songs will be a mixture of hymns, contemporary worship songs, and original music. Words to the songs will be on the screens. Breaks There will be three 15-minute breaks during the night. A count-down timer will be on the screen, so you’ll know when the simulcast will start again. Area Highlight / Prayer Time for the Persecuted Church Our prayer focus for Secret Church 13 are the Hui. If you would like to learn more about the Hui before Secret Church, you can find information on the Secret Church blog and Pray for the Hui. Offering An offering will be taken up during the night. This offering will be used to minister the persecuted church around the world and to make Secret Church teachings available in other languages. Additional details about how the offering will be collected are here.

Pray for Hui Believers Posted: 23 Mar 2013 03:00 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 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. (James 5:16, ESV) "Although I am Hui, I prayed to receive Jesus as my Lord and Savior just before I graduated from a university in China. As I returned home, my heart was filled with dread. I feared that my new identity in Christ would be discovered, so I did everything possible to hide it. But to my surprise after two months of being home, my mom, a single parent, also prayed the prayer of repentance. I then admitted that I too believed. In my mother's great joy at her own salvation she told my grandmother. But grandma was drastically opposed to this news. She told the extended family and they put pressure on my mom to renounce Christ, which she did through an Islamic ceremony. She then kept close watch over me, confiscating my Bible and few Christian books. I really love my mom who has sacrificed many things to give me a good education so I cannot bear to hurt her now by continuing to follow Jesus. I feel guilty if I try to meet up with other Christians, and I feel guilty if I attend our Hui religious ceremonies. Confusion reigns in my heart!" This young lady has since married and her husband has become interested in the gospel enough to ask for a Bible to read! Praise God for being faithful to her. Many of the Hui who have come to faith in Jesus are young women who are not leaders in their communities. Some of them are no longer in fellowship with other Christians because of family pressure to recant. Some of those who have turned back to Islam are now more devout Muslims. Others are in cell groups that use Han Chinese or other forms of worship that their Hui relatives find very foreign. Very few Hui who are decision makers in their communities have heard a clear presentation of the gospel. So far we have yet to see a church planting movement among the Hui. Note: Picture and story are not related. PLEASE PRAY Beseech God to enable all Hui believers to maintain a pure and simple devotion to Christ. Pray for a reawakening and re-commitment to Jesus for the Hui who have once believed. Pray that Hui leaders will have the opportunity to hear a clear presentation of the gospel and that many will believe. 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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