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.

They are not your typical volunteer team. All of them are taking a semester off of studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to share Christ in Taiwan, and they are doing so by playing Blue Grass music to gain access to the hearts of lost people.

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.