August 9 Bade in Nigeria n a country with a king, he is Icrowned when he assumes the throne. But what about the supreme leader of the Bade people known as the emir in Nigeria? He is turbaned! The Bade people are mostly farmers who practice some other occupation during the dry season. They live mostly in Nigeria's northern Yobe and Jigawa states, which are subject to the terrors of Boko Haram. Ministry Obstacles The Bade people practice a mixture of Animism and Islam. Audio and video resources, but not the Bible, are available in the Bade language. Though there are Bade believers, their churches worship in Hausa, the ��BAH-day trade language, which most of them POPULATION: 394,000 understand with their heads but not LANGUAGE: Bade with their hearts. RELIGION: Islam BIBLE: Portions Outreach Ideas STATUS: Unreached The Bade often rely on the protection of amulets. The cross is Prayer Focus not an amulet but a symbol and Pray that these people who live with reminder of the Lord's work on terrible uncertainty—for they behalf of lost, sinful humanity. Since depend on the weather, and they live the Bade people have a strong in an area subject to terrorist connection to visual reminders, they attacks—will respond to the certain may respond quickly to the symbol of future that God promises. May He the cross. give them faith to entrust their present lives to Him. SCRIPTURE I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; He will tend them and be their shepherd. Ez 34:23 PRAY for today’s people group to submit to the one true shepherd, Jesus Christ. Unreachedoftheday.org.