The Obadiah Project
Burkina Faso is a landlocked western African nation. There is however, great opportunity to be seized. Due to the cultural reliance on oral history and storytelling, the spoken Word of Life compels the lost to seek Him until the Bible can be translated to each tribe’s language. Poverty and HIV/ AIDS create opportunities to show…
Gambians are known for being soft-spoken and tend to avoid conflict, so many of the Muslims are more tolerant of Gambian Christians, and persecution is lower than in most surrounding nations. Nominalism is affecting the Church, and even though they have access to spiritual teaching, they are not fully receiving the message and growing in…
Ninety percent of the Gambia population is Muslim, but there is some religious freedom and tolerance. Christians, mostly Protestant, make up 5% of the population. Ministries are needed to reach the non-Christian majority, but many Gambian believers are not motivated to evangelize their Muslim countrymen. Pray for continued freedom to spread the Gospel. Ask for…
Spiritually poor as well as fiscally, Evangelical Christians compose less than 1% of Guineans, trailing far behind the 88% who follow Islam. And sadly, that 1% is diminishing. Church attendance has been in the decline since the late 1990’s as many nominal Christians have fallen away. The lukewarmness of many has also hindered church planting…
There is freedom of religion in Guinea-Bissau unlike other nations in the region, and Christians have gained respect from their humanitarian work during civil unrest. There are an increasing number of missionaries to the nation from Latin America and Asia, however they tend to congregate in existing churches, leaving smaller people groups with a lack…
Under Portuguese rule, Guinea-Bissau was a predominantly Catholic nation. Since their independence, Islam has grown in prominence, and today roughly half the population claims to follow Mohammed. However, there is a high level of syncretism between Islam, Catholicism, and African Traditional Religion. Pray for spiritually mature, trained national workers to move outside urban areas to…
Most of the South Sudanese population is animist or Christian. Western missionaries evangelized the South Sudanese in the 1800’s, and many nationals converted to Christianity, causing conflict with their northern Islamic, Arabized neighbors. Give thanks for despite decades of extreme persecution, the Sudanese Christians are still standing strong and maturing in their faith. The Church…
Turkey’s President Erdogan is gathering vast executive powers needed to move Turkey towards an Islamic State. Turkey needs God’s intervention! Please pray for: God’s intervention before the April referendum on the constitutional amendment package concentrating power in President Erdogan’s hands. May the necessary votes for passage fail. Turkish citizens to be successful in registering their outrage…
In Niger, the cultural pressure to maintain the Islamic faith continues to hinder outreach efforts, though indigenous pastors, many of whom have converted to Christianity from Islam themselves, are stepping up as leaders in the fledgling church. Niger still has the taste of political freedom on their tongue. Pray for boldness for these indigenous pastors…