Pray for China (June 22-28, 2025)
Systematically and Strategically Interceding for All of China
Here is the next in the (not quite) weekly series, sharing which prefectures/cities to pray for in China each day. Included in each daily introduction are links to more resources about the city and province to which it belongs. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) to see more pics of each day’s target city.
*Scroll to the bottom for my explanation of how I decide which cities to pray for daily.
Finally, each week I record the China Compass podcast in which (usually near the end) I talk through the locations targeted for prayer that week, sharing any thoughts or stories that come to mind. Here are the unique places to pray for from June 22-28:
*Remember that today in China, thousands of pastors will continue to be detained/harassed/persecuted for faithfully leading their flocks. (Hebrews 13:3)*
Sun, June 22 - Pray for Chaozhou City in north-eastern Guangdong, a couple hundred miles by train up the coast from Hong Kong: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaozhou
Tropical Guangdong is paired with Florida for prayer. For more info (and podcast): https://prayforchina.us/index.php/guangdong/
Mon, June 23 - Pray for Fengjie County in Chongqing, on the Yangtze River upstream from the Three Gorges Dam: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fengjie_County
Chongqing is paired w/ SE Texas for prayer: https://prayforchina.us/index.php/texas/. Here's the Chongqing podcast (y mas): https://prayforchina.us/index.php/chongqing/
Tue, June 24 - Pray for Chongming, a “sparsely” populated (600k) island district on the northern edge of Shanghai: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongming,_Shanghai
Shanghai is paired with NYC for prayer. For more info, and the Shanghai podcast: https://prayforchina.us/index.php/shanghai/
Wed, June 25 - Pray for Binhai District, the most populated within Tianjin Municipality: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binhai,_Tianjin
Tianjin, east of China’s capital, is paired with Maryland for prayer. For more info, incl. a podcast about the many martyrs of Tianjin: https://prayforchina.us/index.php/tianjin/
Thu, June 26 - Pray for Quanzhou County in Guilin, an extremely popular tourism area in China's Guangxi Province: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanzhou_County
Guangxi is paired with Mississippi and Alabama for prayer. For more info, including a special Guangxi podcast about the Mountain Chief (I Don't Want Your Jesus…) https://prayforchina.us/index.php/guangxi/
Fri, June 27 - Pray for Jining District of Ulanqab Prefecture, in the center of northern China’s Inner Mongolia Region: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jining_District
I’ve criss-crossed Inner Mongolia by train many times, including passing through today’s town, Jining, on my way to the border with “Real” Mongolia to the north.
Inner Mongolia is paired with the Dakotas for prayer and features in this podcast: https://prayforchina.us/index.php/Inner-Mongolia/
Sat, June 28 - Pray for Haiyuan County in Zhongwei Prefecture, a Muslim-majority county in the mountains of north-central China’s Ningxia Region that was destroyed by an earthquake in 1920: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiyuan_County
Ningxia is paired with the western ⅓ of Missouri for prayer. For old podcasts and more info: https://prayforchina.us/index.php/ningxia/
*Beginning in early 2024, I began working through each of China’s 31 provinces/regions once per month (on shorter months I skip a smaller, less-populated province), highlighting one new place per day, starting with the most populated in each province. More than a year later, I continue working my way down through each province’s prefecture/city list by population (greatest to least). The goal is to eventually pray for every prefecture, city, and county in China, the vast majority which the average western Christian has never even heard of.