Brief Profile

Most restaurants are family operations, staffed by immigrants who pass through for a few months at a time, living in houses and apartments that have been converted into makeshift dormitories. The restaurants, connected by Chinese-run bus companies to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, make up an underground network—supported by employment agencies, immigrant hostels, and expensive asylum lawyers — that reach back to villages and cities in Fuzhou, which are being abandoned for an ideal of American life that is not quite real.

In the Fuzhou province of China, the Fuzhou Min Dong have been more receptive to the gospel than other Chinese peoples. Some of them migrated to the United States. However, the majority of Fuzhou Min Dong people adhere to Mahayana Buddhism and Chinese religion which is filled with Buddhist ritual practices, a Taoist philosophy toward life, Confucianism's teachings, and ancestral veneration.

Prayer Points

• Pray that God will send evangelicals to share the gospel of Christ both in word and deed.
• Pray that God will break down social walls and religious barriers among Min Dong Chinese that prevent them from understanding and receiving the message of Christ.
• Pray that Christians who frequent Chinese restaurants will be intentional in becoming friends and meeting the needs of Fuzhou Min Dong workers both in word and deed of the gospel message.