Photo of the Ayizo of West Africa

Ayizo

Quick facts about the Ayizo

  • Location: Benin
  • Also Known As: Aizo
  • Status: Engaged by IMB
  • Population: 325,000
  • Primary Religion: Voodoo
  • Number of Christians: 13,000 (approx. 4% of population)
  • Language: Ayizo

  • Most Ayizo survive through subsistence farming
  • Many Ayizo are in bondage to voodoo, which is the equivalent of Satan worship
  • Of 700 Ayizo villages, only 40 Baptist churches and 20 preaching points exist. An overwhelming number of vilages are still without an evangelical witness.
Pray that God will raise up leaders (for men, women and children), pastors and evangelists among the Ayizo.

Learn more about the Ayizo!

Into the poverty and mud walled villages of the Ayizo, God is moving to transform lives. Prayer, spiritual warfare/prayer walking, personal evangelism, chronological Bible storying, mobile medical clinics, physical need provisions and literacy training are powerful methods which result in people surrendering their lives to Christ. Yet thousands upon thousands still live in terrible bondage and horrible fear through their blood sacrifices to the voodoo gods and in yielding to spirit possession.

Short term ministry teams are needed to work in conjunction with the established Ayizo churches to reach the entire population with the freeing, forgiving message of Jesus Christ.

Images of the Ayizo (click images to enlarge)

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