Tuesday
While there are an estimated 1.5 million people in China who need organ transplants annually, only 10,000 people receive them according to government statistics. In the past two years a pilot program asking for voluntary organ donations netted only 546 organs. Officials hope that within three to five years they will be able to quit depending on condemned prisoners for the needed organs. Having a loved one with chronic illness is very burdensome emotionally, especially when the family must spend their limited recourses on medical care for that person. Let us pray for believers who have sick relatives, and especially for those who are ill themselves. We commit them into God's hand and pray for His mercy and healing for them.
Wednesday
In the United States, the ratio of those waiting for organ donations as compared with the number of actual donors is five to one and in the United Kingdom it is three to one. In China, however, it is more than one hundred-fifty to one. In the past China was the only country that depended on condemned prisoners as the source for organ transplants with nearly ninety percent of donors being executed prisoners. A big complication there was that prisoners have a high rate of bacterial and fungal infection which influenced the rate of survival.Chinese people are suspicious of giving a donation whether monetary or even volunteering for anything. May the Lord change this tendency in Christians. Believers say they trust God but they have a feeling of distrust about how their offerings are handled and are suspicious of the way their church does it.
Thursday
There is a huge difference between thinking and traditions concerning organ donation in Chinese and Western countries, especially about putting the designation of donor status on one's driver's license. According to the experts, Chinese people are slow to sign up for organ donation on their drivers' license because they consider this designation brings bad luck and is not a smart thing to do.Chinese Christians in general still have a deep suspicion about their church finances and how their offerings are used. We know only God can remove this deep-rooted suspicion and lack of trust in leadership. We pray that the younger generation of believers will have a strong faith in God, in their church leaders, and above all believer that God can use them to change the churches in China.
Friday
A survey shows that in more than sixty-five percent of the households in China parents are still supporting their grown child and that about thirty percent of the young people still basically live off of their parents. In some cities this phenomenon is very prominent. As the size of the family has grown smaller with the one-child policy, even grown children still live at home and this is becoming a social problem. Most parents know it is not healthy to have a grown child still unable to be independent financially or emotionally. Let us pray for believing parents who spoil their children by their unhealthy parenting skills and relationships but do not know how to change them. May the Lord be merciful to these families and the Holy Spirit convict them of what the Scripture teaches about the correct role and function of parenting.
Saturday
As China's economic power and influence grow, her churches seem much more confident and enjoy the grand vision of "The twenty-first century belongs to the churches of China" or "China will become the headquarters of missionaries for the world." We pray that all of these grand visions will be not merely a dream but that the churches of China will join the ranks of those sending missionaries. We pray especially for the churches in Wenzhou, Henan, and Beijing, the three major centers with strong churches. May they also become the future home churches for missionaries.
Sunday
Middle class wealthy Chinese in villages or city will buy children, they see a child bought as an investment, to have someone to care for them when they are old. Older people even borrow money to buy a child to care for themselves. Churches are often involved in caring for elderly whose children are not nearby or neglect them. Church is literally their family. We praise God for all who care for the elderly, may the Lord richly reward them now and before the Judgment Seat.
Monday
Recently, Chinese government has repeatedly cracking down syndicates trafficking little children and arresting more than fifteen thousand criminals. But, how to return these "stolen" children is harder than apprehension because these children do not remember where their original families are from. Let us pray for all the families who lost their loved one this way, may our Father in Heaven comfort them and someone would bring the Gospel of Jesus to them and share with them God's great love.
星期二
中國每年約有150萬人需移植器官，但每年僅1萬人能夠接受移植手術，主因是器官缺乏。近兩年啟動的器官捐獻試點工作，僅得到546個捐獻器官，杯水車薪。政府希望在未來3-5年間，器官捐獻體系能迅速建成，改變過去主要靠死囚獲得移植器官的畸形方式。當有家人患長期疾病時，的確是負擔沉重，尤其是經濟緊絀的，要省吃儉用想盡辦法求醫。我們為那些照顧長期病患親人的信徒禱告。懇求主施恩憐憫他們所承受身心靈的壓力，幫助他們來到主跟前，放下重擔享有安息。
星期三
美國器官移植的等待者和器官捐獻者之間的比例為5：1，英國為3：1，而我國高達150：1，差異懸殊。中國是目前世界上惟一主要使用死囚器官作為屍體器官來源的國家，其真菌感染率和細菌感染率很高，這也是導致器官移植長期存活率低於世界先進水準的主要原因。現時中國人對捐贈已沒有多大信心，甚至連基督徒也對奉獻教會的金錢如何運用也持相同的懷疑。求主改變中國信徒的觀念，對主有信心，並且學習更多為神的家守望和禱告。
星期四
中國對器官捐獻的認識，在傳統文化和理念上與發達國家相比，有很多差異。在美國，大部分州採用領取駕照登記器官捐獻意願制度，在歐洲一些國家也是這樣。但在中國，不少人覺得領駕照時登記器官捐獻，是晦氣、不吉利的事。有些中國信徒總是質疑教會如何使用金錢，對帶領者持不信任的態度。求神在眾信徒心裡動工，幫助大家彼此同心，不讓仇敵魔鬼有攻擊教會的機會；也求主興起良善忠心的管家，按著神的心意照顧群羊。
星期五
調查顯示，中國有65%以上的家庭存在「老養小」現象，30%左右的青年仍靠父母供養。「啃老」現象在部分城市更突出，成了一個社會問題。城市獨生子女多，家庭規模縮小，家庭觀念改變，「啃老族」與日俱增並迅速擴大，從「家庭現象」演變成「社會問題」。絕大多數的家長知道，孩子長大後需要在經濟和感情上獨立自主，但許多信徒家長對孩子明顯地溺愛, 孩子更不懂得去面對自己當負的責任， 求主幫助他們。 願主憐憫這樣的家庭，因著聖靈的感動，聖經的教導，使家長有正確的養育角色和功能來完成神的托負。
星期六
隨著中國經濟地位和影響力的提升，教會似乎也隨之揚眉吐氣，許多「激蕩人心」的想法不知不覺成為大多數教會的共識，比如：二十一世紀是中國教會的世紀，中國將成為宣教的大本營等。我們為福音出中國不單只是個夢想，而是中國教會也能加入宣教的行列。溫州、河南和北京是目前中國教會的三股重要的力量，我們特別為這三地的教會能為主所使用，成為宣教的重地來禱告。
星期日
「老年人願意花錢，甚至借錢來買一個將來照顧他們的孩子。」主要是中等富裕的農村或城市居民，會購買兒童當成投資，以確保年老時有人可以照顧他們。教會需要幫助沒有子女在身邊或不關心老人的家庭。教會也就成為這些孤單老人的溫暖的家。感謝主！願主恩待那些常常關心老人，看顧困苦人家的信徒們，在主的臺前，必得祂親自的獎賞。
星期一
近來政府大規模打擊孩童販賣，有超過一萬五千人被捕。但後續處理的工作比打擊走私集團更加困難。同一兒童往往被販賣了很多次，有些人根本不記得自己的原生家庭。我們求天父安慰所有失去孩子的家庭，那是何等悲痛的事！ 但願有基督徒能將耶穌的福音，神的大愛告訴他們與他們分享。
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