West Africa
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[edit] Peoples in West Arica
- Senegal and Gambia have the lowest percentage of Evangelicals in Africa South of the Sahel zone, even less than Algeria. There are just over half a million of the Atlantic-Jola cluster in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. They are divided into 11 main languages, and after a slow start, the church is finally growing in many of them. Three groups remain a problem. The largest group (370,000) is called Jola Fogny, and has very few believers, and only one Fogny-speaking church. The Jola Gusilay (15,000) have one translator couple and one church planting couple, but no church whatsoever. The Jola Blis have never heard of Jesus.
- May the Jola Fogny to respond to the scriptures, which are being translated, and to the stories of Jesus, which are being told.
- May be established a church in six Jola Fogny towns: Sibanor, Sindian, Bignona, Baila, Bougoutoub, Jululu.
- May there are responses among the Jola Gusilay to both the translators and the lone church planters.
- There is a need that someone is sent to the isolated Jola Blis, living in mostly fishing villages, to tell them of Jesus for the first time.
[edit] Women in West Africa
- While women in West Africa are in many ways more respected and better treated than women in many other countries with the same faith, they still face many challenges. One of the greatest hardships for local women is that of divorce or abandonment. At least among the poor women, divorce is endemic. Many have been divorced or abandoned by their husbands, in some cases several times. It is not so much social and religious barriers that create hardship for women as poverty and lack of education and job skills. Women with young children to support have a difficult life trying to juggle the care of their children with some means of supporting themselves financially to feed their children. Many women are forced into begging whilst others turn to prostitution.
- Most of the women in West Africa are not particularly interested in theology or debate. But they are eager to learn about a God who loves them personally, who knows their needs, who has the power to heal their children when they are sick. They long for someone who will show them steadfast love, provide for them and not abandon them.
- Pray that:
- many women will find the longings of their hearts answered in God.
- women will find educational and economic opportunities, so that the cycle of illiteracy and poverty can be broken and they can support themselves with dignity and provide a future for their children.
- God would raise up women leaders in the kingdom, who will be able to teach others well and whose purity of life would be an example to younger women who may struggle in difficult marriages.
[edit] Muslims Buying West Africans Into Islam
- Our prices are much cheaper for Muslims. If you want to convert to Islam, we'll sell you our produce more cheaply... also set you up with your own market stall so you can earn a good living. Muslims Buying West Africans Into Islam.
