Burkina Faso Praying for Burkina Faso Young people are better educated than their parents and they enthusiastically supported the failed revolution. Local prospects for employment and advancement are poor, so they are frustrated and disillusioned.
Few churches have effective programs directed at children or young people.
Pray for the work of Scripture Union in the high schools and the expanding ministry of International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in the high schools and Ouagadougou University. There are over 1,000 linked with the latter in cell groups around the country and one group of 60 in the university. More staff to expand the work is a great need. The social upheavals, family breakdowns and economic stagnation caused by the emigration of most of the active men in the community are severe. Only now are Burkina churches taking up the challenge by sending pastors and missionaries to these people - especially from within the Assemblies of God, Christian and Missionary Alliance and WEC International.