The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) reports that more than 530 people have been killed by armed groups in attacks on civilians in Niger this year. This is more than five times as many as in 2020. Pray for the country of...
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...
Indigenous churches are churches generated from within the specific people group rather than from outside. Although the Gospel is typically introduced to a people group from an outsider or ministry, in Church Planting Movements (CPM), the momentum quickly becomes indigenous so that the movement is...
Recently, 69 people were killed in an attack by gunmen in the western region of Tillaberi near the border with Mali. The country observed two days of mourning for those lost in the attack. Pray for the people of Niger who are fearful of the...
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...
Pray for “Guidé” a village chief and a man of tremendous influence. Recently, Guidé invited church planters to his village to share the Gospel. Guidé asked to be baptized in the presence of his family, members of his village, as well as in front of...
Pray for “Katiya,” a woman who has been attending a discovery Bible group for over a year, but has not yet accepted Christ. Last year, her husband died. Last month, her adult son died unexpectedly. Katiya has endured many hardships over the past few years...
A key component of a Church Planting Movement (CPM) is that there is a multiplicative increase. In other words, the churches are not growing incrementally, adding a few new churches each year, but they are compounding, with two churches becoming four, four churches becoming eight...
Pray for “Souleymane,” a man who was visited by Jesus in a dream, but after being advised by an Imam to never speak of this encounter, refused to accept the truth. After his wife was baptized, he threatened to leave her. Yet, over the past...
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...