We started this blog because we believe all followers of Christ are one body and as believers we should know what is going on in the world and we should be lifting each other up in prayer!
We had always heard about Christians being persecuted for their faith, but we didn’t really know where to go to learn more about it and how to specifically pray for them. Our goal is to help other Christians become actively involved in praying for the persecuted church.
As a part of training for a ministry trip that I was preparing to go on we went through a simulation that we were in a communist country and had to find our home church. There were “soldiers” asking us where we were going and we couldn’t tell them. Knowing that our “lives” would be endangered if they found out that we were going to church. When we found our home church, we had to read our Bibles via cell phone light, as to not make us suspicious. We could hear other “churches” being discovered and hear girls screaming. It was so real, and yet still a simulation. I realized that this is the life of many believers overseas they endanger their lives every day for the sake for Christ. Paul wrote to the Philippians, “For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in Him but also suffer for His sake”(1:29 ESV).
We realize that it’s easy to overlook our brothers and sisters in Christ outside of the United States because their languages and cultures are so different from ours; they’re distant from us and easy to forget about, but their lives are entwined with ours because we belong to Christ. Paul wrote: “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ…. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.” 1 Corinthians 12:12, 26 (ESV)
It might not seem like we’re connected to those suffering for the name of Christ, but we are one body through the unity of the Holy Spirit; we want to invite you to read the posts, pray for your fellow Christians, and visit the links, so you can begin to see what it’s like for them to live every day with the threat of persecution. We pray that, through this, we can all grasp a little better how glorious our God is and how deserving He is of our service and our suffering.
