Introduction / History

The area where the Bench are found is generally made up of Savannah and forest land.

What Are Their Lives Like?

This people group works as agriculturalists and produces sorghum, maize, wheat and barley using a terracing system with the hoe as their principal tool. Sheep, cows and fowls are plentiful among the Bench people. Their food consists of meat from cattle and goats or sheep, milk, maize, and a kind of cassava that is a popular food item.

Piercing and stretching of the lobe of the right ear with ornaments or small pieces of wood is very common among the Bench, though this custom is practiced only by chiefs, hunters or brave warriors.

What Are Their Beliefs?

The Gimira are mainly ethnic religion believers of a sky-god. However, much more importance is given to the many local spirits. It is believed that the spirits by means of certain rituals become embodied in the living form of a ritual expert. Although the

What Are Their Needs?

The Bench people need clean water in their region.

Prayer Items

Pray for their churches to be Christ-bearers to those who lack the gospel in southwestern Ethiopia, especially the Banna-Hammar.
Pray for the Holy Spirit to move mightily in their churches and families.
Pray for Bench disciples to make more disciples.

Scripture Prayers for the Bench in Ethiopia.

References

Dr. Samuel Kebreab