People group profile · PG014233
The Bayote of Senegal
The Bayote of Senegal, numbering about 24,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Bayot-speaking Jola subgroup of the Casamance region, centered around Ziguinchor, sharing the rice-growing heritage and village-based traditions of the wider Jola people while maintaining a distinct language.
They are an indigenous people in the Atlantic-Jola people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Bayot.
Fast facts
- Country
- Senegal
- Population
- 24,500
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Atlantic-Jola
- Primary language
- Bayot (bda)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Pioneer Unreached People Group
- Also known as
- Bayot, Jola-Bayote
- Region
- Western Africa, Africa
- Location
- Casamance region, Ziguinchor department, Nyassia commune
Where they live
Gospel status
The Bayote 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 No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Bayote
- 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
90% adherents
Primary language
Bayot · Atlantic-Congo family
95% speak Bayot
Gospel resources in Bayot
- Bible available, published 2018
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Films
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Bayote
- 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.
- 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.
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