Mei Li’s parents teach her about Jesus and tell her stories from the Bible, and her grandparents help her understand the Muslim culture and holidays she experiences in her small village. Sometimes she feels confused about how her parents’ faith and her grandparents’ faith are similar and how they are different.
Grandmother wasn’t sure where she would turn for health advice, care, and encouraging conversations now that her foreign friend was leaving. Everyone in her circle of influence had been encouraged or touched in some way, and the gospel was always shared.
As a college student, Mary is struggling with identity, wanting to fit in to this new world at university with more freedom but still knowing the importance of her Hui identity.
The majority of Chinese Muslims who live outside of larger urban centers are rural farmers but many Hui people are moving to cities to find other jobs that they know or care little about in order to provide for their family.
Amina lives in two worlds. She is diligent and works long hours but spends her days with people who do not share her religious background.
YeYe (“grandfather”) spends his retirement years sitting outside in the sun in his apartment complex and walking back and forth across the street to the Mosque five times a day. Like most elderly Chinese Muslims, he’s devoted to his faith because thoughts of the afterlife seem more pertinent at his age.