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.

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.

Looking for a leaning tower in an industrialized city of 1.2 million people? How about a part of the historical Great Wall built over water during the Ming Dynasty? Both can be found in the city of Huludao in Liaoning province, northeastern China. The city also has a harbor and a peninsula.

Jesus likens the Kingdom of Heaven to a pearl of great price; one of such immeasurable value that whoever found it would sell all he had just to buy it. More than two-thirds of China’s pearls come from Zhanjiang, yet less than one percent of its population knows Jesus as Savior. What a heart-wrenching paradox!