Mission Moroto Stories: The Karamoja Cluster
We thank God that, in His gracious kindness, He prepared us, empowered us, trained us, equipped us, provided for us, and directed us to this beautiful place called Karamoja.
The Karamoja Cluster is a transboundary pastoral (herding) region spanning northeastern Uganda, northwestern Kenya, southeastern South Sudan, and southwestern Ethiopia. It is home to related Nilotic-speaking peoples such as the Karamojong, Turkana, Toposa, Nyangatom, Dassanech, Jie, Dodoth, Bokora, Tepeth, Matheniko, Pokot, and Pian.
The population is estimated at approximately 2.35 million people. The breakdown is as follows:
* South Sudan (Kapoeta region): ~780,000
* Uganda (Karamoja subregion): ~585,000
* Kenya (Turkana and West Pokot areas): ~962,000
* Ethiopia (Nyangatom and Dassanech): ~108,000
Total: Approximately 2,350,000 eternal souls.
Mission Moroto places us within one of the largest pastoral cultural regions in East Africa. Although only about 2.3–2.4 million people live in the core Karamoja Cluster, it includes more than a dozen closely related pastoralist groups spread across four nations, making it a strategic region for cross-border evangelism.
Unlike anywhere else we know of, Mission Moroto is home to children from many of these people groups, including the Matheniko, Dodoth, Tepeth, and others. We believe with all our hearts that God has established us here as a forward operating base in the Karamoja Cluster to raise up educated, multilingual missionaries who will be sent to their own indigenous peoples as evangelists, carrying the gospel across East Africa to tribes even more remote and unreached than those we are currently serving.
Will you please continue to pray for and support us? We believe God is raising an army of love that will change nations.
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