Text source: Global Prayer Digest Introduction / History On a world map a 60,000-person village would probably not rate the tiniest of dots to represent it. If those 60,000 people were scattered over a broad range, where would the mapmaker place the dot? And what if these 60,000 people were continually moving from place to place? No dot, no representation, no home, no roots; these 60,000 Sansi people would be nearly invisible to the outside world.
But the Lord Almighty knows every Sansi person, and must surely weep for the desperate and criminal lifestyle they live. Cattle thievery and petty crimes support their families, and living in the shadows of near invisibility suits that existence just fine. However, their victims sometimes become violently angry, and life then becomes dangerous for this criminal nomadic group.
Their language is endangered because they only speak it among themselves, and there are so few of them. They are considered a very low caste, and government designs to settle them in one place have been thwarted by their continual habit of selling or bartering any land that is given to them. Prayer Points Pray for a move of the Holy Spirit to transform Sansi communities so that they will do productive work rather than stealing.
Pray that the Lord will call workers as gentle as doves but as sly as foxes to be able to identify with the Sansi Sikhs and share the way to eternal and abundant life with these precious black sheep. View Sansi (Sikh traditions) in all countries.
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