Monday, August 29, 2016

From @chinaaid : "8 months in prison, tortured pastor writes he is ‘brought closer to God’"

The China Aid Association is a non-profit Christian organization - based in Midland, Texas - with a mission to uncover and reveal the truth about religious persecution in China, focusing especially on the unofficial church. They do this, they explain in their website, by exposing the abuses, encouraging the abused and equipping the saints to advance the kingdom of God throughout China.



8 months in prison, tortured pastor writes he is ‘brought closer to God’
Distributed by ChinaAid, July, 2016 ...

GUIYANG, GUIZHOU, CHINA – A pastor imprisoned in China’s central Guizhou province on a falsified “divulging state secrets” charge penned a letter to his wife on June 30, thanking God for the chance to rest after serving as a pastor for 23 years.

“This is a good place to rest, where I am cut off from the rest of the world and brought closer to God,” Li Guozhi, a pastor at Huoshi Church who goes by the pseudonym Yang Hua, wrote of his jail cell. “I can no longer hear the clamorous noise, but can better listen to the Lord’s voice” ...

more on this story from China Aid



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