No, I still don’t know which people group I will be working with in West Africa.\u00a0 But over the next several months I would like to introduce you to different West African people groups who need missionaries to share the good news of Jesus Christ with them.\u00a0 Though I won’t be working with all of them, they could all use our prayers.\u00a0 Each one represents hundreds or thousands of people who have never had the opportunity to hear the gospel in their own language before. . .<\/p>\n
The BOLON People<\/strong><\/p>\n Demographics:<\/strong> There are 18,000-26,000 Bolon people who live in 12 villages in western Burkina Faso.\u00a0 They speak the Bolon language, which has never been written down.<\/p>\n Religious Beliefs: \u00a0<\/strong>There are less than 15 Bolon people who claim to be Christians.\u00a0 There is no Bolon-speaking church, so these 15 individuals attend church in a different language.\u00a0 There are no missionaries currently working with the Bolon people.\u00a0 Ninety percent of the Bolon are said to be of a major world religion.\u00a0 The Bolon are also animists, fearing and trying to manipulate spirits.\u00a0 They believe that the supreme god is too high to be reached and that they can only connect to him through the spirits.<\/p>\n Occupation:<\/strong> \u00a0The Bolon are mainly subsistance farmers, meaning that they grow the food they eat.\u00a0 They grow staple foods such as sorghum and millet as well as other crops.\u00a0 They also have a few cattle and supplement their diet through hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants.<\/p>\n Family Life:<\/strong> \u00a0The Bolon often live with their extended families in rectangular houses with mud walls and beaten-earth roofs.\u00a0 Men often have more than one wife.<\/p>\n Prayer Needs:<\/strong> \u00a0Please pray that God would send missionaries to the Bolon.\u00a0 Pray that the Bolon people would seek the truth.\u00a0 Pray that missionaries would translate the Bible into the Bolon language.\u00a0 Pray that the Christians who live near the Bolon would learn the Bolon language in order to share the gospel with them.<\/p>\n (Sources, which are also places you could go to learn more: http:\/\/www.joshuaproject.net\/people-profile.php?peo3=10920&rog3=UV<\/a>, http:\/\/gowestafrica.org\/peoplegroups\/bolon\/<\/a> ,\u00a0NTM PGA report)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No, I still don’t know which people group I will be working with in West Africa.\u00a0 But over the next several months I would like to introduce you to different West African people groups who need missionaries to share the good news of Jesus Christ with them.\u00a0 Though I won’t be working with all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-least-reached-people-groups","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}