No, I still don’t know which people group I will be working with in West Africa.\u00a0 But\u00a0starting in May I’ve wanted to\u00a0introduce you to different West African\u00a0people 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.\u00a0 Let me introduce you to the Bl\u00e9 people of Burkina Faso . . .<\/p>\n
The\u00a0BLE People (also called the JALKUNAN)<\/strong><\/p>\n Demographics<\/strong> (Sources, which are also places for you to learn more: http:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/show_language.asp?code=bxl<\/a>, http:\/\/www.sil.org\/silesr\/2001\/001\/Ble.pdf<\/a>, http:\/\/www.peoplegroups.org\/Detail.aspx?PID=47043<\/a>, http:\/\/globalrecordings.net\/en\/program\/C29020<\/a>, http:\/\/www.joshuaproject.net\/people-profile.php?peo3=10894&rog3=UV<\/a>, NTM 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\u00a0starting in May I’ve wanted to\u00a0introduce you to different West African\u00a0people 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 […]<\/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-224","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\/224","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=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThere are\u00a0500 to 1845\u00a0Bl\u00e9 people who live in\u00a0just 1 village in western Burkina Faso.\u00a0 They speak the Jalkunan language, which is a tonal language.\u00a0 Some of the Bl\u00e9 people can speak a different language, Jula, and some can even read Jula as well.
\nReligious Beliefs<\/strong>
\nIn 2006, it was said that there were 40 Bl\u00e9 Christians.\u00a0 But earlier this year there didn’t appear to be any Christians, so there are probably between 0 and 40 Bl\u00e9 Christians.\u00a0 There are a few Bible stories recorded audibly in the Bl\u00e9 language, but they don’t have a Bible in their language.\u00a0 Most of the Bl\u00e9 are of a major world religion, though many are also probably animists.\u00a0 This means that they may conform to the rituals of\u00a0the major world\u00a0religion\u00a0while also fearing and trying to manipulate spirits.
\nOccupation<\/strong>
\nThe\u00a0Bl\u00e9 are mainly subsistance farmers, meaning that they grow the food they eat.\u00a0\u00a0They also grow cashews to sell to earn money.
\nPrayer Needs<\/strong>
\nPlease pray that God would send missionaries to the Bl\u00e9.\u00a0 Pray that the\u00a0Bl\u00e9 people would seek the truth.\u00a0 Pray that missionaries would have the wisdom to know whether to translate the Bible and present the gospel in the Bl\u00e9 language or whether the Bl\u00e9\u00a0understand Jula enough that a Bible in Jula would be well understood by them.<\/p>\n