Paul was a great enemy of believers before he met Jesus, but when he met Christ on the road to Damascus, the authority of the voice of God changed him. God’s Word and God’s voice has authority and power. Pray that the Zarma people in...
Many Zarma Songhai people fear thunderstorms and lightning. They believe that an evil spirit named Dongo will fall upon those who have done evil and repay them with the evil they have committed. They believe that Dongo has responded to their transgressions in the past...
Although the Fulani people proclaim to be Muslim, they have preserved numerous animistic practices. They typically adhere to the Muslim rituals of daily prayer, annual fasting, giving alms, and pilgrimages, but they also place a great emphasis on seeking protection from the spirit world. The...
Pray for a conference for Fulani Christians that will be taking place over the next few days in Niger. Praise God that many Fulani people are hearing the Good News of Jesus Christ and are being saved. This year, they are expecting 800 Fulani people...
Pray for Hausa Christians who have accepted Christ, but refuse to abandon the traditions of their past. Pray that they would stop striving to look like their Muslim neighbors, but choose to identify with Christ Jesus and allow their minds to be renewed. Pray that...
Pray for the Wodaabe people who have a history steeped in witchcraft, sorcery, prostitution, forced marriage, and spirit worship. Praise God that many Wodaabe people are coming to Christ and are abandoning these harmful practices. Pray that the Gospel would spread throughout the Wodaabe people...
The Songhai celebrate the Yenaandi ceremony in December to celebrate a specific genie (demon). During another festival, they make offerings to the “black spirits of the bush” and seek to find protection from sorcery, pestilence, and epidemics. Pray that the Songhai would cease these demonic...
Many Fulani mothers do not show affection to their infants. Most of the time, mothers never call their firstborn son by his name his entire life. Pray that as the Fulani come to know Christ and experience the gracious love of their Heavenly Father they would...
There is a Zarma tradition that a father will bring his newborn infant to the river’s edge and place him or her in the water. If the child floats, they believe that the child is truly theirs, but if the child begins to sink, another...
The Gerewol is an annual Woddabé festival where the men compete in a beauty contest to win the affection of women, both married and unmarried. The men spend hours decorating themselves with yellow-colored faces, blackened lips (to make their teeth appear whiter), white lines painted...