The Tuburi of Chad

The Tuburi of Chad, numbering approximately 297,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Chadian people whose ancestors fled Fulbe slave raiders into the lowlands around Fianga, historically ruled from the village of Dore by kings called Wang Dore, sustaining a livelihood built on cattle, fishing, and terraced millet and sorghum farming They are an Indigenous people, with Tuburi as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Adamawa-Ubangi people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Animism and Tupuri is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Chad
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Tupuri (tui)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 297,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG011465
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Pray for the Tuburi of Chad

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

70%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tupuri
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

85%
%
Tupuri Speakers

Media Resources in Tupuri:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

Bible Resources in Tupuri:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2004 Bible Society of Cameroon✓

1 entry

Or check out the Tupuri bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Tuburi are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Tuburi:
Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Tuburi of Chad

The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.
readMatthew 4:16

Pray that those living in darkness and the shadow of death will see a great light and turn to the Lord for salvation.

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.

The LORD bless you and keep you.
readNumbers 6:24

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be blessed with God's grace, trusting that He will never abandon them.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
readJohn 3:16

Pray that God will send and sustain believers to cross cultures and share the gospel with the lost. Ask that He will give them His heart for the lost and that many will believe in Him and not perish but have eternal life.

Tuburi Across Countries (ROP3 - 110241) reported in the following countries:

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