Waking the Wala Reaching Speakers of Dagaari Dioula Who are the Wala? In the Black Volta region in the southwestern corner of Burkina Faso lives the Wala people group. Their main language is Dagaari Dioula, and they are primarily farmers who migrate continually in search of adequate farmland. Many Wala have adopted the dominant religion of the region or follow traditional animistic beliefs, worshiping ancestors and objects of nature. According to The Joshua Project, it is believed less than 500 of the 33,000 members are Christians.
Recognizing the need for Christ in this corner of the nation, JESUS Film Burkina Faso leaders have developed a strategy to reach the Wala people. Operating since January of 2011, Burkina Faso Team #3 plans to evangelize in the Wala region showing the JESUS Film at least 49 times over Team #3 hopes to start preaching the next year and points (baby churches) with the hopes to begin Wala and help these mature into at least one new full grown churches. preaching point each month. Will you provide support to JESUS Film teams like Burkina Faso Team #3 as they seek to awaken the world with the good news of Jesus Christ? To give, please go here.
Follow the Leader
Testimony From JFHP Development Officer Darrell Leber Partner Investment Trip to South Asia
us and invited some of us to visit her village. We followed her through the countryside among the rice fields. Every once in a while, she would stop, turn around, and tell us to, “keep up!” After two miles, we arrived at the destination. We talked with several of her neighbors and told them about our plans “Keep Up!” to show the JESUS “Where would you like The Elderly Lady Film that night. They to go to show the JESUS asked if they could Film?” asked a church come and we of course leader from South Asia. said “yes.” What amazed me was the people dropped all I responded, “We should go some of their tools, left them laying place where we’ve never been right where they were working, before!” and simply went with us. The church leader then took us As we started hiking back to a new village and the JESUS toward our original location, Film team began setting up the some folks stopped us and equipment. An elderly woman said, “Oh no, you can’t go carrying a basket full of rice met
home that way! You have to go a different way and invite all of the people in these other villages to see the film.” As we walked along the way and visited with other villagers, I found the same thing happened: the workers would stop, leave their tools in the field, and follow us to learn about Jesus. That evening, we hiked almost eight miles and ended up with over 130 people watching the JESUS Film. Several dozen made decisions for Christ—praise the Lord! To experience new cultures and people while serving Christ, participate in a JESUS Film Harvest Partners Ministry Trip. For more information, please call 913-663-5700 or go to JFHP.org/MinistryTrips
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