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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Adele of Ghana

The Adele of Ghana, numbering approximately 18,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a cross-border people of Ghana's Oti Region and neighboring Togo, centered around Nkwanta, Dadiasi, and Dutukpene, who call themselves Bidire and their language Gidire. They mostly adhere to Folk Islam and Adele is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Ghana
People Cluster: Guinean
Primary Language(s): Adele (ade)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Islam
Population: 18,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG013251
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

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Folk Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Adele
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Adele Speakers

Media Resources in Adele:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Adele:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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1 entry

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Or check out the Adele bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Adele 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 Adele:
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 Adele of Ghana

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
readMatthew 5:44-45

Pray for those who don't know Jesus to encounter believers who are kind and compassionate and that their imitation of Christ will serve as a testimony that attracts lost people to Jesus.

Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.
readMatthew 13:8-9

Pray that they will have open hearts and minds to the Word of God, and that it will take root in their lives and bear fruit for His glory.

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
readPsalm 51:9

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have confidence that God has turned His face from their sins and forgiven their iniquities.

The steps of a man are established by the LORD, when he delights in his way.
readPsalm 37:23

Pray that believers from near and far will serve here and trust in the Lord's timing as He establishes their steps.

Adele Across Countries (ROP3 - 100059) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
AdelePG014303AdeleTogo32,000No Longer UnreachedAdeleAnimism
AdelePG013251AdeleGhana18,500No Longer UnreachedAdeleFolk Islam

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