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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Mesme of Chad

The Mesme of Chad, numbering approximately 39,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an ethnolinguistic community of Chad They are an Indigenous people, with Mesme as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Chadic people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Neo-Pentecostalism and Mesme is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Chad
People Cluster: Chadic
Primary Language(s): Mesme (zim)
Primary Religion(s): Neo-Pentecostalism
Population: 39,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG011414
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Neo-Pentecostalism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

70%
%
Neo-Pentecostalism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mesme
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

85%
%
Mesme Speakers

Media Resources in Mesme:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Mesme:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1995 Edition✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Mesme bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Mesme are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Mesme:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Mesme of Chad

For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
readPsalm 97:9

Pray that those who don't yet know Him will recognize the Lord as the Most High and turn from spiritual darkness to worship Him above all else.

If I ascend to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
readPsalm 139:8

Pray that the lost will recognize God's presence with them wherever they go, put their faith in Christ, and seek to live in a way that honors and glorifies Him.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
readJames 1:5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will ask God for wisdom when they lack it, trusting that He will generously give it to them.

And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, but as it is written, "Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand."
readRomans 15:20-21

Pray that God will send believers to cross cultures and proclaim the gospel where Christ has not been named, so that the nations might glorify God for His mercy.

Mesme Across Countries (ROP3 - 106565) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
MesmePG011414MesmeChad39,500No Longer UnreachedMesmeNeo-Pentecostalism

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