Manjaku of West Africa
The 285,000 Manjaku live in northern Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and The Gambia. The Manjaku community in Guinea-Bissau has suffered during the last several years of government and social turmoil. Believers in the other countries find themselves the minority, often in troubled regions. In that climate, many have found real, lasting peace through Jesus Christ, and the church is growing.
A translation team is building on a 40-year history of mission work to bring Scripture to a Bibleless church. From 2008 to 2016, the translation teams plan to complete the New Testament and large portions of the Old Testament
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* Pray for God’s blessing on the books of Matthew, Mark and James, which are in the final rounds before publication.
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Praise God: Very soon, once the book of Jonah is published, church leaders are eager to begin teaching from it!
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Pray for the literacy, evangelism and church-planting initiatives—all of which prepare people for the Manjaku Scriptures.