Tanzania Profile.pdf - WorldMap

Source: http://www.worldmap.org/countryG.php?rog3=TZSource: http://www.peoplegroups.org/Detail.aspx?PID=1506615067Zoba, Joba, Zyoba (4145 in 2009)The Zoba people live near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. There is a strong Christian influenceamong the Zoba people, but less than 2% are evangelical. Neither the Bible nor the Jesus filmhas been translated into Joba, the language of the Zoba people. There are some Gospelrecordings in their language, but no radio broadcasts.Source: http://www.imb.org/globalresearch/downloads.aspSource: http://www.peoplegroups.org/Detail.aspx?PID=15067Source: http://globalrecordings.net/langcode/jobSource: http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php?rog3=TZ&rop3=111197Missiological Implications1. Evangelical Christians and churches should recognize and act to reach the religiouslydiverse peoples of Tanzania. Materials for evangelizing people in Tanzania who followCatholic, Orthodox, Islamic, and predominantly Traditional Religions should be made apriority. Evangelicals should develop materials to use in training local Christians inTanzania to reach people in these people groups. Investigation of the People Groupssection of this Profile will show how ingrained the traditional beliefs and practices are.2. Evangelical Christians and churches should develop materials for evangelizing the ratherlarge population of non-religious peoples in Tanzania. Many people groups withsignificantly large populations do not have the Jesus film or other Christian resources.3. Evangelical Christians and churches should recognize the tremendous physical needs ofthe peoples of Tanzania and seek to find ways to alleviate the suffering and overcome theproblems of such disease factors as AIDS, Malaria, and malnutrition.4. Evangelical Christians and churches should seek to help local Christian groups inleadership training on both the career and the lay leadership levels.5. Evangelical Christians and churches should seek to guide local Christian leaders tooppose the widespread syncretism that exists in many Christian groups.6. Evangelical Christians and churches should seek ways to provide more Christianliterature to the peoples of Tanzania. The Jesus film should be provided in numbers ofpeople groups, many of which follow traditional religions.7. Evangelical Christians and churches should consider recruiting people to share the GoodNews with the various peoples of the islands of Zanzibar (Zanzibar and Pemba have over800,000 people). Most of this population is followers of Islam.