A Prayer a Day for East Asian Peoples

Similar to the Korean holiday of Chuseok, Mid-Autumn Festival is an important lunar holiday for the Chinese that this year also falls on October 1, China’s National Day. Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for gazing at the full moon, reuniting with family, and eating mooncakes, which are rich pastries filled with sweet bean paste, meats, nuts, or various other delicacies. For the Chinese, the full moon represents reunion, harmony, and happiness. The public holiday started three thousand years ago as a harvest festival, when people thanked the moon god for the harvest.

Pray Chinese people will have the opportunity to hear about the God who put the moon in the sky. Pray they will worship him, the Creator, rather than his creation.