Partners
Prayer Partners:
6 Current
4 Needed
Total Opportunity:
$123,533 Funded
$0 Needed
Demographics
- Location:
- Nigeria
- Speakers:
- 100,000
- Start Year:
- 1998
- End Year:
- 2009
Reports to Investors
Okphela NT
About 100,000 Okphela speakers live in midwestern Nigeria. They live in rural villages and grow yams, cassava, cocoa, plantains and bananas. Although up to 70 percent of the people would identify themselves as Christians, their exposure to the gospel has been through English or the Yoruba trade language, not through their own Okphela language. As a result, very few have a real understanding of faith in Christ, and their lives continue to be dominated by their traditional animistic religion.
Since the late 1990s, an Okphela Bible translation team has developed an Okphela alphabet and begun teaching people how to read their language. They have completed the first drafts of 10 New Testament books, which are now in various stages of testing and review. The team aims to complete the New Testament by 2009.
News from the Field
- Oct06
Okphela of Nigeria
Although up to 70 percent of the Okphela people would identify themselves as Christians, their exposure to the gospel has been through English or the Yoruba trade language, not through their own Okphela language. As a result, very few have a real understanding of faith in Christ, and their lives continue to be dominated by their traditional animistic religion. - Apr30
Okphela of Nigeria
About 100,000 Okphela speakers live in midwestern Nigeria. An additional 50,000 people understand the Okphela language because they speak closely related dialects. Although up to 70 percent of the people would identify themselves as Christians, their exposure to the gospel has been through English or the Yoruba trade language, not through their own Okphela language.