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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Kera of Cameroon

The Kera of Cameroon, numbering approximately 15,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an East Chadic people of northern Cameroon's Mayo-Danay and Diamare departments whose ancestors migrated from the Chari River through Mouzouk country under pressure from the Kanem and Baguirmi kingdoms, marking harvests with ritual war dances. They mostly adhere to Animism and Kera is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cameroon
People Cluster: Chadic
Primary Language(s): Kera (ker)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 15,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG012636
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Pray for the Kera of Cameroon

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

40%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Kera
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%
%
Kera Speakers

Media Resources in Kera:

Films:

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Bible Resources in Kera:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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1 entry

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Kera 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 Kera:
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 Kera of Cameroon

The LORD has heard my plea; the LORD accepts my prayer.
readPsalm 6:9

Pray that lost people will hear the gospel and place their faith in Christ, knowing that He hears their plea and accepts their prayer.

Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
readIsaiah 55:5

Pray that those who do not know God will access the gospel, run to Him, and discover that He is the one their souls have been longing for.

He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.
readIsaiah 25:8

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice in the hope of the Lord's coming, when He will swallow up death forever and wipe away their tears.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
readMark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

Kera Across Countries (ROP3 - 104854) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress Index ▼LanguageReligion
KeraPG011382KeraChad146,000No Longer UnreachedKeraEthnoreligion
KeraPG012636KeraCameroon15,000Engaged yet UnreachedKeraAnimism

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