Mt. Hope Bible Camp

This week we’re going to pray for a people group called the Sankaran, who live in Guinea, in West Africa. There are about 125,000 to 130,000 Sankaran people, mostly living around the Faranah and Kouroussa areas of Guinea. Many live in rural villages and make their living through farming and other local trades. The Sankaran speak their own language, called Sankaran Maninka. Almost all Sankaran people are Muslim, and according to current people-group research, only about 0.01% are Christians. They have a few portions of the Bible in their language, but they don’t have the whole New Testament or Bible yet.

But there is some really encouraging news. There are a few Sankaran Christians, and Christians from neighboring Sierra Leone are now starting Bible discovery groups among the Sankaran. A translation of more of the Bible into their language is also being prepared. That means people are beginning to have opportunities to hear God’s Word in a language they understand. So we’re praying for a people who still have very little access to the gospel, but where God is already opening some doors.

So this week, let’s pray for the Sankaran. Pray for the few Sankaran Christians—that God would protect them and give them courage to live for Jesus even when it’s difficult. Pray for the Bible translation and the Bible discovery groups, that God’s Word would spread through villages and families. And pray that God would open the hearts of the Sankaran to Jesus, and that the small number of believers would grow into healthy churches that can reach their own people.