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Welcome to this mid-week Prison Pulpit edition of the China Compass podcast! I'm your China travel guide in exile, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I share a new Chinese city to adopt in prayer every single day. Email any questions or comments to: bfwesten AT gmail dot com. For everything else visit PrayGiveGo.us, including our ministry page, substack, and all books.

On this week’s episode of the Prison Pulpit, I begin by giving a little update from India and how things are trending more like China, in a bad way. Then we look at a couple of stories out of China, including the arrest of a number of elderly folks from Early Rain Church in Chengdu.

Why the Prison Pulpit? 

The goal is to remind people to pray for persecuted believers as Hebrews 13:3 teaches:

“Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them” 

Elderly Early Rain Churchgoers Arrested at Tea House

https://www.vomcanada.com/china/cn-2026-09-24.htm

Exit Bans: China Forbids Citizens from Leaving

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqe8x6gkk250o

Book of the Week: 

Unbeaten: My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China: Unbeaten.vip

Pray for China Cities of the Week (Oct 5-11):

https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-oct-5-11-2026

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