West Africa
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- Senegal and Gambia have the lowest percentage of Evangelicals in Africa South of the Sahel zone, even less than Algeria. There are just over half a million of the Atlantic-Jola cluster in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. They are divided into 11 main languages, and after a slow start, the church is finally growing in many of them. Three groups remain a problem. The largest group (370,000) is called Jola Fogny, and has very few believers, and only one Fogny-speaking church. The Jola Gusilay (15,000) have one translator couple and one church planting couple, but no church whatsoever. The Jola Blis have never heard of Jesus.
- May the Jola Fogny to respond to the scriptures, which are being translated, and to the stories of Jesus, which are being told. * May be established a church in six Jola Fogny towns: Sibanor, Sindian, Bignona, Baila, Bougoutoub, Jululu.
- May there are responses among the Jola Gusilay to both the translators and the lone church planters.
- there is a need that someone is sent to the isolated Jola Blis, living in mostly fishing villages, to tell them of Jesus for the first time.
