Friends, Family of Hillsong Worship Leader Ask for Continued Prayer: ‘We Need Prayer Right Now’

Friends, Family of Hillsong Worship Leader Ask for Continued Prayer: ‘We Need Prayer Right Now’



Friends and family of the Hillsong worship leader who suffered a brain aneurysm after worship on Sunday say Chelsea Taylor still needs prayer.


“Ok people we need prayer RIGHT NOW!!!” wrote friend Emma Fellers on Instagram, according to Faithwire. “Chelsea is going back into theatre apparently she has developed a left arm and facial droop… her brain may have spasmed. God’s got her but please rally right now with us!!”


As Christian Headlines previously reported, last Sunday, Taylor was rushed to the hospital after she said she didn’t feel well at the 8 a.m. worship service at the Hillsong Hills campus in Sydney. She led the opening worship but texted another team member that she was sick. When she continued to feel worse, she was taken to the hospital and underwent a nine-hour brain surgery.


Earlier this week, Cass Langton, Hillsong’s creative team director, posted an update about the singer on Instagram, writing that Taylor’s doctors are hoping to remove the draining tubes in a few days. She said doctors thought it was “really good news and we’re confident.”


“Her results are incredible!” Langton wrote in her post. “They revealed minimal vasospasms that were attended to and the doctors are confident there won’t be anymore.”


In an update from this week, Fellers said Chelsea was “doing okay” but is “utterly…

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Christian Worship Song Emerges as Anthem for Hong Kong Protests

Christian Worship Song Emerges as Anthem for Hong Kong Protests



The year Linda Lee Stassen-Benjamin penned the Christian worship song, “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord,” OPEC ended its oil embargo against the United States, America and Russia met to discuss nuclear disarmament, India tested an atomic device and President Richard Nixon resigned after being impeached during the Watergate scandal. It was 1974 and the cost of a first-class stamp was just 8 cents.


Forty-five years later, the song, written as a tribute for Easter, has emerged as an anthem for the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. The protests began in June after the government announced plans to extradite suspects to China for criminal prosecution. The plan was later suspended, but protestors continue to push for democratic reforms, fearing communist China will do away with the existing “one country, two systems” model implemented when Britain returned its former colony back to China 22 years ago, Religion News Service reported.


The Hong Kong song and Christian involvement emerged early in the protest movement but was highlighted once again on Aug. 23 when Christians organized their first large-scale rally in Chater Garden. According to a press release by organizers the motto of the gathering was “Salt and light, for justice we walk together” and was designed to “provide all Christians a platform to express themselves outside the church, hoping people would safeguard Hong…

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