People group profile · PG014221
The Bedik of Senegal
The Bedik of Senegal, numbering about 6,400 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a hill people of Senegal's Bassari Country near Kedougou, descended from Keita and Camara families who fled Mali and Fouta Djalon between the 1000s and 1800s to escape war and forced conversion, preserving a UNESCO-listed cultural landscape.
They are an indigenous people in the Mande people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Ménik.
Fast facts
- Country
- Senegal
- Population
- 6,400
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Mande
- Primary language
- Ménik (tnr)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- Western Africa, Africa
Where they live
Gospel status
The Bedik are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Bedik
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
94% adherents
Primary language
Ménik · Atlantic-Congo family
100% speak Ménik
Gospel resources in Ménik
- Bible available, published 2015
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- Mission Evangelique (NTM), 2015 · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Bedik
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
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