The Zigua People of Tanzania

Please join us in praying for the Zigua People of Tanzania.  They are one of our new UUPG's for the month of March. Over this next week I'll post about the other 4.  Feel free to share with others.

Zigua of Tanzania 

People all over Africa claim that they believe there is a “God” who is the creator of all things and who is all powerful. But Islam teaches that one cannot truly know God or have a relationship with Him. Animism, which includes the belief that spirits inhabit inanimate objects, often displays its practices in whatever religion an African takes on.


The Zigua (zee-goo-ah) of Tanzania are a rural, agricultural people of over a half a million who live in the northeastern part of Tanzania. They are predominately Muslims, and although they claim to know God, they have never truly yielded their lives to their Creator. Islam has grown in strength and has brought a lot of confusion and resistance to the spread of the gospel, thus forcing some missionary personnel to relocate away from the Zigua.

Pray
· for Great Commission partners who are able to continue to work among the Zigua for now, but will be relocating soon.
· that Zigua believers will be bold to share the gospel with their friends, family members and neighbors.
· for children who have heard the gospel during English lessons and church-related activities. Pray that these spiritual seeds will be watered by others.

“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.” (Romans 1:21)