A Prayer a Day for East Asian Peoples

Chuseok, meaning “eve of autumn,” is a major Korean holiday celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar, which this year is October 1. Traditionally, Koreans perform two key traditions during Chuseok: holding ancestral memorial services at home and visiting ancestral gravesites to clean them and pay respect. Masses of people travel to their hometowns during this holiday. Chuseok is incomplete without songpyeon, colorful half-moon-shaped rice cakes filled with red bean or chestnut paste or sesame seeds and honey. It is common for Koreans to send Chuseok gifts to families, relatives, and friends.

Pray for Koreans to earnestly desire and share the greatest gift of all—the love of God! Pray for Korean Christians to have the boldness and wisdom to not participate in ancestor worship when under pressure by nonbelieving parents and relatives.