Grace Jin Drexel

This is both a earthly battle, but also a spiritual battle as well.

It's kind of unfathomable that Christians are being targeted.

We were not a threat to the regime in any way.

We were like,

loving our neighbors and loving God.

And that's all that we were asking for as Christians in China.

So, like, I think there is an element of spiritual battle in this as well.

And so asking for prayers from people far and wide and hoping that we will also witness in our generation what God can do at this time.

No direct communication is allowed between family members.

We weren't even allowed a phone call.

Visitations are a definite no.

We also weren't even able to give any things to my dad.

In the winter, we wanted to bring him some blankets and even his medication that the doctor prescribed him, we weren't allowed to bring those into the

to the detention center or jail center at all.

The only way that we were able to communicate with him are through the lawyers.

And the lawyers are only able to meet with him sporadically as well.

And obviously with the limited time that they have, they also go through a lot of legal matters.

Whereas for family members, all we care about is like how he's doing, whether he's being fed well, like where is he sleeping, et cetera.

And all of those information we don't know too much about.

We know that his prison condition is not great.