Gola, Gula of Sierra Leone

What are their needs?

Few Christian resources are available to them at this time. Missions agencies have begun focusing on the Gola, but very little progress has been made. Very few of the Gola have accepted Jesus as their Savior.
Discipleship training is desperately needed for the small number of Gola believers. Bible teachings via Christian radio and television broadcasts, additional long-term missionaries, and evangelistic materials are needed to effectively reach this group with the message of salvation. Above all, intercessors are needed to faithfully stand in the gap for the Gola, tearing down the strongholds that are keeping them in spiritual bondage. Only then will their hearts be prepared to receive the Gospel as it is presented to them.

Prayer Points

* Ask the Holy Spirit to anoint the efforts of missions agencies that are currently focusing on the Gola.
* Pray that African believers will be compelled to take the Gospel to their unreached neighbors.
* Ask the Lord Jesus to begin revealing Himself to the Gola through dreams and visions.
* Pray that God will save key Gola leaders who will boldly declare the Gospel among their own people.
* Ask the Lord to create a hunger within the hearts of the Gola to know God in a personal way.
* Pray that God will call forth intercessors who will faithfully stand in the gap for these precious people.
* Pray that local churches will be planted among the Gola of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
* Pray for completion of Bible translation in this people group’s primary language.

Information from The Joshua Project

Karakalpack of Afghanistan

What are their needs?

Health issues are a concern among the Karakalpak. The main causes of Karakalpak health problems are a combination of poverty and poor diet, the collapse of the former Soviet health system and the pollution of water supplies by herbicides and defoliants formerly used on the cotton crop. However there have been recent definite improvements in Karakalpak heath care. Infant mortality, once a problem, has declined to approximately 1.8% (2003) thanks to many projects and initiatives and the trend continues downward. The incidence of certain diseases like tuberculosis, anaemia, thyroid ailments, and cancers is higher in the Aral delta than in other parts of Central Asia, but the trend is downward and encouraging.
Very few Karakalpaks have ever heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ; and among those who have heard, very few have responded. There are only a few reported church members in the republic.

Prayer Points

* Pray that the Lord will send Christian medical teams to work among the Karakalpaks.
* Pray for a clean water source for the Karakalpaks.
* Ask the Lord to call people who are willing to go to Uzbekistan and share Christ with the Karakalpaks.
* Pray that the non-religious Karakalpaks will begin searching for the Truth.
* Ask God to strengthen, encourage, and protect the few known Christians and for the Lord to raise up strong local churches among the Karakalpak.
* Pray that these believers will have opportunities to share the Gospel with their own people.
* Ask the Holy Spirit to soften the hearts of the Karakalpaks towards Christians so that they will be receptive to the Gospel.
* Pray that God will reveal Himself to the Karakalpaks through dreams and visions.
Information from The Joshua Project

Hausa of Nigeria

What are their needs?

The Hausa culture is strongly linked to Islam, which makes it difficult to reach this people group with the Gospel. There is a lot of prejudice against the Christians of southern Nigeria, and there has been intense persecution of the Christian Hausa.
Because Islam has been carried throughout West Africa by Hausa traders and priests, nearly everyone expects a Hausa to be Muslim. This could be one of the main reasons why the Hausa stay so resistant to the Gospel and have difficulty leaving their Islamic faith.
The Hausa also have physical needs such as education and safe drinking water. Pray that the Hausa would come to know Jesus, the giver of Living Water.
Thank God for the Hausa Bible and the powerful impact that the Holy Scriptures has upon Muslims.

Prayer Points

* Pray for the Maguzawa Hausa as they take the Gospel to the Muslim Hausa.
* Pray that Christian converts would be bold in the face of family pressure and persecution.
* Ask the Lord to raise up loving Christians who are willing to share Christ with the Hausa.
* Pray that God will open the hearts of the Hausa to the Gospel.
* Ask God to encourage and protect the small number of Hausa believers.
* A recent drought in Nigeria has been a tremendous hardship for the Hausa. Pray that God will supply drinking water for the people and animals, and rain water for their crops.
* Pray that a church will be raised up among the Hausa.
Information from The Joshua Project