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The Ginukh live in the village located in the "three corners" area where Georgia, Azerbaijan and Dagestan borders come together. They speak their own language, Ghunzib, but also the languages of neighboring nations.
In the 4th-5th centuries, Georgian Christian missionaries evangelized the Ghunzib but from the 15th-18th century they became Muslims. In 1813, Russia took control of this this territory because of a contract between Iran and Russia.

They work mainly with livestock, raising cows, goats, sheep, horses, and donkeys. They farm potatoes and corn. The Ghunzib make many things from wool. The men and women of this region separate their work by gender. They have a patriarchal family system. The husband controls the family, but the women control domestic matters. Mullahs of the mosque or the priest usually handle family conflicts. The Ghunzib locate the mosque in the center of the village. This people group supports one another including their distant family.

They practice Sunni Islam, but also worship nature with big celebrations such as jumping through the fire and singing folk songs.

The Ghunzib need workers to go to them to share the gospel in their Ghunzib language and culture.

Pray God would pour out his Spirit on this people group and draw them to Jesus Christ, the only savior.
Pray that workers translate the Bible and other resources into the Ghunzib language.
Pray for God to execute his strategy for this people group, so that missionaries could go and have an inroad to evangelize them.
Pray for the establishment of a viable, indigenous and reproducing Ghunzib church.

Scripture Prayers for the Ghunzib, Hunzib in Russia.

http://www.globalprayerdigest.org/issue/day/2017/03/09
http://www.globalprayerdigest.org/issue/day/2014/03/15