Miao people

And in this ancient painting, dolphins are swimming around the boat and a dove with an olive branch in its beak is flying toward it.

So why would there be all these stories about all over the world about a worldwide flood well maybe because it actually happened maybe because it actually happened and in the ancient world it was well known it was passed on from generation to generation yes these accounts morphed over time and often took on inaccuracies but you go back to the bible and you have the authentic account from which all these stories sprung Another tribe within China, the Miao tribe, which resides, I don't know if that's pronounced right, maybe they're relatives of John, but in southwest China, they have a tradition, which is like the Genesis account, and they had this before they met Christian missionaries.

According to their tradition, when God destroyed the whole world by the flood, because of the wickedness of man, Noah...

The righteous man and his wife, Matriarch, their three sons, listen to this, Lohan, Loshen and Jahu, survived by building a very broad ship and embarked on it with pairs of animals.

Two more here.

Saturday, September the 12th, pray for Xiu Shan, Tu Jia, and Miao Minority County.

That's a mouthful.

Xiu Shan is the name, but it's a county that's dedicated to these two different minority people groups, the Tu Jia and the Miao.

They're in central China's Chongqing.

Chongqing is paired up with southeast Texas for prayer, basically the greater Houston area.