Giddikki

The Giddikki were traditionally fortune-tellers and alms-collectors, but now the selling of aluminum utensils and plastic boxes forms their primary occupation. A few own land and are engaged in cultivation. There are also vegetable vendors, cycle repairers, collectors of old bottles, and daily-wage laborers among them. All males are given equal shares in the family property, while the eldest son succeeds as the head of the family. Their traditional community council, the latikuta, deals with cases such as adultery, theft, and intercommunity marriage. They mainly worship Durga, Lakshmi, Eswara, and Siddeswar. Thulajapur is their sacred center.

Ministry Obstacles

The Hindu Giddikki have little concept of a creator God, someone who stands outside his creation, yet is knowable as a loving heavenly father. They need a radical worldview change.

Scripture Focus

"And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the LORD their God."  Nehemiah 9:3

Scripture Prayer

Pray that hearing the word will lead to deep repentance.

Prayer Focus

Pray the Giddikki community will be able to gain new skills to become more employable, and for a rising literacy rate. Pray for the Lord to thrust out his children to bring the hope of Christ to the Giddikki. Pray that they will become interested in gospel media via radio, television, and the internet. Pray for loving workers to go to them until many are discipled and sent out to others.