Introduction / History

The Kreshs speak Gbaya. They live in southern Sudan and South Sudan.

What Are Their Lives Like?

Kresh people are agro-pastoralists who raise cattle ang goats and grow cereal crops. They also hunt and fish for their food needs. Their homes lack electricity. They are thatched-roof huts.

Wealthier Kresh men can have more than one wife. There is a bride price, paid in livestock, and families arrange marriages. As is common in Sudan, they often marry their cousins. Men will marry their brother s wife if he dies. This helps maintain family alliances.

What Are Their Beliefs?

Kreshs are unusual in that they have a Muslim majority, but a large Christian minority.

What Are Their Needs?

The fighting in Sudan limits the infrastructure. Like others in Sudan, the Kreshs don t have adequate schools, hospitals, running water, electricity, or roads, because the government is putting the country s resources into fighting insurgents.

Prayer Items

Pray for a movement to Christ among the Kresh people, especially among the Muslims.
Pray for Kresh Muslims to understand they need a sin-free savior to pay for their sins.
Pray for a complete and accurate Bible in their Gbaya language.
Pray for Kresh Christ bearers to make disciples of the Muslims.

Scripture Prayers for the Kresh, Kparla in South Sudan.

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