Resources on Chinese Muslims
As we come across great articles or blog posts on Chinese Muslims, we’ll share these resources with you as well. Here are four recent finds:
How You Can Pray for Chinese Muslims
Below are four articles from 30 Days of Prayer that will help and challenge you in praying for Chinese Muslims. We encourage you to use these resources as you continue to pray!
A Sacrificial Life for Chinese Muslims
In 1904 William Borden graduated from a Chicago high school, as heir to the Borden Dairy Farm. He was already a millionaire. For his high school graduation present, his parents gave him a trip around the world. As a young man traveling through Asia, the Middle East,...
Typical Salar Jobs
The majority of the Salar people earn their living through agricultural means with horticulture as the sideline. Xunhua County is widely known as “the land of fruit” and each Salar family owns a limited amount of land that affords them an opportunity to grow apples, walnuts, and hot peppers.
Salar Living Conditions
Salar villages are traditionally comprised of a group of square, clay houses, which are each enclosed within a clay wall approximately three to four meters high. Intricately carved eaves, pillars and door frames, as well as flat roofs characterize these homes. In addition, fruit trees, flowers and vegetables are often planted inside the clay-walled courtyard.
Blinded by Tradition
As the sun sets behind the mountains, the crowded mini-bus jumbles along through a gorge that allows no margin for error by the driver, who is more cavalier about this dangerous terrain than his passengers. Jason begins to feel sick, but if he can just hang on through this gorge, he is almost home.