Well, well, well... these last few days have been interesting to say the least. I've seen some things that have totally blown my mind. I am living in days that totally blow my mind. I don't know what is happening and I love it because only God can possibly do this.

I don't know how this works, but somehow or another I seem to meet some incredible people. I somehow get to have relationship with these people and I have to remind myself that this just isn't normal. Well... it is normal. We should all be radically impacting the world. What isn't normal is having Jesus alive in you and you doing nothing with the most powerful transformative force ever to exist and that has been given to you. That's not normal.

Anyway... last night I spent some time with a certain man named Pastor (I will not put his name here). He is a native to China, but now lives in Canada and is a Canadian citizen. But his heart is for China. We have walked together for a few years now and never in a million years would I ever have guessed what this man has his hands in.

Recently he was in China with a few of his friends. These friends lead an underground network of Christians that number somewhere in the 60 to 70 million range. That's more then double the entire population of Canada. Oh yeah... the leaders of this movement? About 200. You would never believe the logistics involved with that... but it works.

Anyway, if you ever meet Pastor you will notice that he is a gadget man. He has video cameras, sound recorders, Palm Pilots, cell phones, you name it. And they are always on. And yes... they were on when he went to China this last time.

I heard some of the stories, but they were sketchy at best, so since I got to spend the last week with Pastor I would ask him every now and again to tell me about it. He was very hesitant to speak anything, but last night in a small group of people I asked him again and he looked at me and told me to follow him.

He produced his laptop and a certain DVD with footage from his last trip to China. I pray I will never, ever forget what I saw. Words literally do not describe and it is honestly very difficult to believe that which I did.

We in North America always talk about the "Glory Cloud" entering a room during a worship service or something. This is something I have always longed to see and I have seen it once on video tape. A small cloud that caused thousands to become silent in an instant.

What I saw last night would have honestly terrified me if I were in the meeting. 200 leaders all worshipping with passion that puts any one of us to shame and then the cloud begins to form over their heads. But in two minutes time the cloud is so thick that it filled the entire room and the video camera almost becomes useless. They continued to worship in this glory cloud and it continued to get thicker and thicker and I was astonished.

The teaching goes on for hours and hours, the praying, the educating, the healing, everything. Suddenly an alarm is sounded and the PSB have discovered this area where the country's most wanted criminals are assembled. So they run into the jungle and pray for their lives.

And there is Pastor amidst all of this. There are the young chinese men and women literally risking their lives right on the video that I am watching which happened only a month ago. They had to stay in the jungle for a long time, praying but were able to make it out through miraculous provision. Once they get to another secret location at around 1:00am, what do they do? Teach more. There is no time to waste, sleep is something that can happen later.

Apparently a bunch of leaders were arrested from this meeting and many are still on the run. There is a cry for prayer for these amazing men and women of God who are being persecuted beyond belief, but live in realms of God that we just do not yet understand.

The stories of the police there are horrendous. The extent that the government has control over the people is even more psychotic. This is the news you'd never in a million years hear talked about on CNN today. Yet it is happening and we seem to be joyful over communist China's recent advance into the global scene. It's as if everyone is happy there and everything is great.

Until we find out that in Edmonton... EDMONTON... a Chinese spy was uncovered who was sent by the communist government to watch their exchange students and report if they had made any movements at all towards the gospel. Edmonton people. This last week. How do we know? Because this person followed the exchange students to an Alpha course and accepted Jesus as well and was afraid to go back home and didn't know what to say. He was desperate for prayer and safety.

Have we any idea the times we are in?

I could go on about the horrific and shocking ways the communist government uses to track their most hated criminals, whose only crime is being a Christian. But you probably won't believe me.

Pray for these leaders. Some are coming to be with us this summer. What an awesome priviledge to have them. And that is just the tip of the iceberg for what is about to occur. Please, take a moment and pray right now. Our brothers and sisters need your help -- the power of prayer is unlike any other.