Announcement on July 24th Outdoor Worship Service
Dear brothers and sisters:
Peace in the Lord! On July 24th, Shouwang had her sixteenth Sunday outdoor worship service. Although weather forecast says that there will be heavy rain, many brothers and sisters continue to seek and worship our God with thanksgiving and praise to our Lord Jesus Christ.
July 24th, Beijing, leaden sky with dark clouds in the morning, heavy rain in the afternoon. In the past week, many believers were detained at home since Saturday. One sister was taken to a hotel nearby for detention from Friday night, which has been happening to her for several weeks. As far as we know, at least thirty-five believers were taken away on Sunday morning for going to the planned location to join the service (including Pastor Shuangyan and two other sisters from Xinshu Church, one brother from Shanghai, and one brother from Tianjin). They were then sent to at least twenty-one local police stations of their respective area. Haidian police station even detained two brothers and one sister who were waiting outside. Policemen at Dongsheng police station and Taiyanggong police station prevented believers who were visiting from sending anything to those who were detained. Dongsheng police station even confiscated quilt and other things sent by believers who were visiting.
Till midnight of the 24th, only twenty-one believers (including the one who was taken to a hotel on Friday night and the three believers who were detained by Haidian police station while they were visiting) were released home. And the other eighteen believers were still under detention, many of whom were threatened that they would be detained for at least twenty-four to forty-eight hours. Some of them were required to write a statement promising that they would not join the outdoor service any more, and some of them were required to leave their address so that they can be under watch. Till 19:00 pm of the 25th, after way more than twenty-four hours, there were still ten believers were detained in police stations. And the last two sisters, who have been detained for more than forty-eight hours in Big Bell Temple police station, were finally released around 16:00 pm of the 26th (Tuesday).
We thank our Lord for these believers, both of those who were detained inside police stations and those who were waiting outside; they faced the twenty-four to forty-eight hours’ detention with peace. A couple waited outside a police station for the whole night called us in the morning, and told us that they were very joyful. A brother came all the way from Shenzhen, and then went to different police stations to find out believers under detention so that he can accompany them. He said that the cost he paid counts for nothing when it is compared with the persecutions believers suffered inside police stations. It is the strength brought by this kind of peace and joy that enables us to rely on Christ, and to overcome all the external forces and persecutions. For this, we thank our Lord; we trust that there is no force can overcome his Church as we abide in him.
We thank our Lord for opening our hearts; as the outdoor worship service takes longer than we expected, God allows more believers to see the far-reaching significance of it. As the outdoor worship service is becoming a long-term event, it is proved to be a witness rather than a spur of the moment, a strategy or a political means; it witnesses that the Church only worships Christ as her Lord, and that she only belongs to our Lord, but not controlled by any forces or powers. We believe that as believers worship our Lord with an uncompromising stand of belief and a willingful heart to sacrifice, our Lord is pleased. May the Lord continue to use Shouwang Church in this way, to witness him in this generation.
On this Sunday with dark clouds and rainstorm, we got to know about the disaster of bullet train crash in Wenzhou through the Internet. May our Lord have mercy on each person who suffered terror and sorrow in this disaster, on each family who lost their beloved ones in this disaster, and on our country as she is suffering from so many disasters. We particularly come to the seat of the Most High, and make supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings for our fellow citizens and for all who are in high positions of this country, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity (1 Timothy 2:1-2).
Beijing Shouwang Church
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Saving Pastor Gong
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Since Dec 2, 2012, my father Pastor Shengliang Gong had High Blood Pressure and Cerebral Infraction, but he never got the proper medical checkup and adequate treatments. Consequently, my father’s illness got worse and worse. More than once my father almost fell to the ground during last November.
Finally when he got the checkup on November 26th 2013, the doctor said my father’s illness was not very optimistic. He was having Cerebral Infraction, Encephalatrophy, Brain Lesions and Leukoaraiosis, etc. The doctor said that my father needs to have checkup every three months. So we repeatedly requested the prison officials to perform checkup accordingly, once every three months. The prison said that they had one done on April 17th, but refused to release the hospital’s medical treatments records and conclusions to neither my father nor the family members. They would not make any specific statements about my father’s illness. Now, my father and our family have no ideas about the level of his illness.
Since my father illness, previously we could buy some appropriate medicines for him according to his known conditions pieced together from oral communications of diagnosis, after consulting with doctors. Though this won’t amount to totally healing, it was the only way our family could do for him under the circumstances. But now, as the prison withholding medical records from us, we are unable to know his condition and thus cannot providing suitable medicines for him-the very minimum request was denied of us.
The inadequate medical treatments within the prison cannot give my father prompt and sufficient treatments. Yet the prison won’t send him to hospitals outside for necessary treatments and regular checkups, causing further serious damages to his health. The prison won’t allow him the fundamental human rights; they also deprive his right to know about his illness condition. The prison as law enforcement agency behaves illegally. Effectively, they are directly pushing my gravely ill father to dead end street of death.
I appeal to the international communities concerning my father’s health and human rights conditions. Please join us to rally for my father and our family’s rights to medical records and the right to know the situation of my father’s sickness; also his right to have regular medical treatments, thereby saving his life and protect his fundamental rights!!
Pastor Shengliang Gong’s daughter: Huali Gong
June 30th 2014
Cell Phone: 13241248388
Han Kou prison department phone number: 027-83556018
Instructor Hanwen Wang: 15327298562
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