Tuesday, November 10 is the date of this month’s Day of Prayer and Fasting (DPF), but we invite you to pray for our focus city or upg all month long.

The Shui (pronounced shway) is an unreached people group (UPG) of Guizhou province, China. They live in villages of about 200 people or 45 families on average. The Shui people are a friendly people and love to entertain visitors.

Sapporo (Sah-ppoh-roh) is a city of 2 million people located on Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. Hokkaido is an island originally occupied by the indigenous Ainu and is considered a pioneer area, its Japanese history being relatively short compared to the rest of Japan. Sapporo City officially recognizes 1868 as its year of birth though it existed as a village before then.

The other day, I received a phone call from a man I met a-year-and-a- half ago at our coffee ministry. I was surprised, but so happy to hear his voice. He wanted to see me, so we met and talked. I didn’t say anything about God but just listened to him talk because I remembered that he wasn’t interested in hearing the Gospel every time I shared it with him.

Neijiang, a city in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, has 1.5 million people and less than one percent of them are Christians. Located about 160 kilometers southeast of the provincial capital of Chengdu, Neijiang lies at the midpoint of the expressway linking the two megacities of Chengdu and Chongqing.

You will not see a headdress as elaborate as those of the Qiandong Southern Miao crowning the head of kings or queens anywhere in the world. But you will find ordinary Miao people wearing silver headwear that compares in beauty and intricacy with crowns of royalty.