本次祈祷周给您带来了什么见证吗？我们盼望您被赐福被激励。

当然，要是你还未参加祈祷周，请在https://www.adventistworld.org下载本周特刊阅读内容。

在今年祈祷周的尾声，魏泰德牧师想要邀请您参与每年的克己捐。

每年此款项专门为全世界宣教事工而筹资。它始于1922年，第一次世界大战结束的不久之后，全球复临福音事工迅速扩展，但艰难的经济局势使欧洲和北美面临资金短缺的问题。

1922年9月20-27日，在密苏里州堪萨斯城举办了全球总会委员会秋季会议，代表们决定号召请求教友奉献出一周薪金，弥补那一年25万美元的预算赤字。

教友们捐了超出35万的美元来响应此号召。接下来每年，这个捐款项目继续进行着。此款项100%送到全球宣教事工的前线，用于全球还未接触福音的地区，去培植建立教会。

今日，全球经济面临同样的挑战，因世界人口爆炸式的增长和基督再来的迫近，这个挑战比以往都大得多。只要我们能像1922年的教友那样有克己牺牲的精神，我们就能加强教会前线的对外宣教事工的能力。

魏泰德牧师分享了一个视频，名为：《奉献，让他们去》。在此有个问题：“为基督而去宣教，你愿意放弃什么？”

的确，克己牺牲是个挑战。如今耶稣很快再来，时日短暂，可是，仍有千万的生灵等待着福音的到来。

在《给管家勉言》一书中说道：“上帝的圣工本来应该以十倍于现在的力量和效率前进。可是一些自称为上帝子民的人竟挪用了原该奉献为祂服务的财物，以致圣工受到了抑制，就像寒冬的风暴阻延了春天来临一样。由于基督克己牺牲的爱没有结合在生活实际之中，教会应有的刚强变为软弱。她的行为扑灭了她的亮光，使千百万人得不到基督的福音。”

弟兄姐妹，我们要发光，去点亮那些仍在黑暗中的人们，让我们经历与上帝同工的特权和福份，宣扬祂的应许，仰望祂的荣耀，因祂凭恩典行奇事。

How was your Week of Prayer experience? We hope you were blessed and inspired.

As this year’s Week of Prayer culminates, Pastor Ted Wilson would like to invite you to participate in the Annual Sacrifice Offering:

https://Global-Mission.org/MySacrifice

This offering is collected yearly to fund missionary work around the world. It began in 1922, a few years after the first world war ended. The Adventist world mission work was rapidly expanding, but the struggling economies in Europe and the United States encountered funding problems.

During the Autumn Council of the General Conference Committee held September 20–27, 1922, in Kansas City, Missouri, the delegates decided to ask church members to give a weekly sacrifice to cover a quarter of a million-dollar budget deficit that year.

As a response, members gave more than $350,000. Over the years, this offering has continued, with 100% of it going to frontline Global Mission work for planting churches in the unreached and under-reached parts of the world.

The global economy is facing a similar challenge today. Yet, the challenge is even greater due to explosive growth in the world’s population and the nearness of Christ’s return. If we matched the self-sacrificing spirit of our members in 1922, we would strengthen the church’s pioneer mission outreach.

Pastor Ted shared a video entitled “Give So They Can Go.” The question here is, “What will you give up to reach the world for Jesus?”

With this, self-sacrifice is the challenge. Now that Jesus is coming soon, time is short. Yet, there are still millions of souls waiting to be reached.

As Christian Stewardship says, “The work of God, which should be going forward with ten-fold its present strength and efficiency, is kept back, like a spring season held by the chilling blast of winter, because some of God’s professed people are appropriating to themselves the means that should be dedicated to His service. Because Christ’s self-sacrificing love is not interwoven in the life practices, the church is weak where it should be strong. By its own course, it has put out its light and robbed millions of the gospel of Christ” (54).

Brothers and sisters, let’s turn on the light and reach the millions who are still in darkness. Let’s experience the privilege and blessing of working with God, claiming His promises, and beholding His glory as He works miracles of grace.