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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Ngbaka Mabo of Congo

The Ngbaka Mabo of Congo, numbering approximately 189,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Ubangian ethnolingustic group indigenous to the Congo Basin of central Africa. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Ngbaka Ma'bo is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Congo
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Ngbaka Ma'bo (nbm)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 189,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG012963
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

58%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Ngbaka Ma'bo
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Ngbaka Ma’bo Speakers

Media Resources in Ngbaka Ma'bo:

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Bible Resources in Ngbaka Ma'bo:

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Ngbaka Mabo 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 Ngbaka Mabo:
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 Ngbaka Mabo of Congo

For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
readPsalm 47:7

Pray for those who live for idols that will never satisfy their hearts, asking that someone will tell them that God is the King of all the earth so that they will turn to Him in repentance and praise.

But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.
readMark 4:20

Pray that those who have never encountered the gospel will have the opportunity to receive it, and that it will fall on good soil and bear much fruit.

You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance.
readPsalm 32:7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember that God is their hiding place and that He will preserve them in the midst of trials.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
readEphesians 6:13

Pray that God will send believers to the lost of this people group and that, as they share the gospel, they will take up the whole armor of God so that they can stand firm when trials come.

Ngbaka Mabo Across Countries (ROP3 - 107253) reported in the following countries:

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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Ngbaka MaboPG014680Ngbaka MaboCongo, Democratic Republic of the39,500No Longer UnreachedNgbaka Ma'boRoman Catholicism
Ngbaka MaboPG012963Ngbaka MaboCongo189,000Engaged yet UnreachedNgbaka Ma'boProtestantism
Ngbaka MaboPG012912Ngbaka MaboCentral African Republic169,000Engaged yet UnreachedNgbaka Ma'boEthnoreligion

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