Arab, Sudan
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[edit] The cluster Arab, Sudan
[edit] The peoples of the cluster:
- Lahawin Arabs
- Mohammed rolled up his prayer mat for one last time. He sighed, wiped sweat from his brow, and continued his efforts to gather his belongings before moving his clan away from the land they could no longer inhabit. Mohammed is part of the Lahawin people, an Arabic-speaking group numbering about 145,000. The World Christian Encyclopedia listed them as one of the highest priority nomadic or semi-nomadic unreached people groups to be reached for Christ because they have had so little witness. It was 20 years ago that they were driven off their land to make way for farmers. This drove them to become impoverished rural wage-laborers. The ongoing drought has exacerbated the situation.
- Typically, nomadic peoples like the Lahawins are marginalized by national governments. They don't pay taxes, and they don't participate in government. For this reason, their needs are given lowest priority. Unfortunately, nomads are also given the lowest priority by mission efforts, because they require missionaries to live and travel with them.
- Pray for justice for the Lahawin Arabs. Pray that they will soon find their spiritual needs met by none other than Isa (Arabic for Jesus), the One who is more than a prophet. Pray for the Lord to thrust forth hundreds of missionaries to Sudan's nomadic peoples.
- Shaikia - The Shaikia is an Arab tribe who is originally from an area Northwest of Khartoum/Sudan. However, the Shaikia can be found in significant numbers in Khartoum, the capitol of Sudan. According to the Joshua Project, they numbered 730,000. There are very few believers among them. They are desert dwellers. They live along the Nile River in the North of Sudan and this is their only source of water. The psalmist declares in Psalms 72:9, "May desert tribes kneel before Him and his enemies lick the dust." Will you pray that this desert tribe would kneel before the Lord Jesus?
