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6th December 2009 |
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Pray for The Gambia
Population is 1.7 million. 88% are Muslim and just 4% are Christian. Islam is dominant, yet the land remains open for the gospel. Little effort has ever been directed at reaching the Muslim majority and converts from Islam have been few — but their numbers are increasing. The Mandinka, made famous by Alex Haley’s book ‘Roots’, are a key people. Pray for continued freedom to witness and for openness of heart for Muslims to receive the truth. Many newer Nigerian, Ghanaian and Liberian ministries have begun, but most are working more amongst the nominally Christian groups and expatriates than the indigenous Muslim peoples. Pray that all churches may see results among the Muslim majority. Prison evangelism has been particularly fruitful. Pray both for conversions and for the integration of converts into their communities and churches on their release. The JESUS film has been shown all over the country in several languages. Pray for the disarming of misconceptions about the person of Jesus through this ministry.
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The Gambia is a very small and narrow country whose borders mirror the meandering Gambia River. The country is less than 48 km wide at its widest point and is 400km long. Subsistence agriculture and dependent on groundnut cultivation, tourism, foreign aid and extensive smuggling over the porous border with Senegal. Independent from Britain in 1965. Pray for this small country.
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