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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Grebo of Cote d’Ivoire

The Grebo of Cote d’Ivoire, numbering approximately 80,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic subgroup of the Grebo (Glebo) people within the Kru family of Africa, indigenous to Liberia. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Southern Grebo is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cote d’Ivoire
People Cluster: Kru
Primary Language(s): Southern Grebo (grj)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 80,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG013085
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

35%
%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Southern Grebo
Language Family: Kru

100%
%
Grebo, Southern Speakers

Media Resources in Southern Grebo:

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Bible Resources in Southern Grebo:

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Expanding Unreached People Group, (LPI: 2), 0.5% or Greater but Less than 2% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

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Pray specifically for the Grebo of Cote d’Ivoire

But he said, "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
readLuke 18:27

Praise God that He is the God of impossible things and that He is able to save even those who seem beyond hope.

...And that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
readLuke 24:47

Pray that the message of repentance and forgiveness through Jesus will reach everyone.

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
read2 Corinthians 12:10

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will embrace their weaknesses, hardships, and difficulties, having hope because Christ's power is made perfect in their weakness.

Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD!
readPsalm 134:1

Pray that God will raise up believers among them who are in awe of Him and that, in service to Him, they will share the gospel with others so that they too may bless the Lord!

Grebo, Seaside Across Countries (ROP3 - 103479) reported in the following countries:

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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
GreboPG050368GreboUnited States100No Longer UnreachedSouthern GreboEthnoreligion
Southern GreboPG013496Southern GreboLiberia133,000Engaged yet UnreachedSouthern GreboEthnoreligion
GreboPG013085GreboCote d’Ivoire80,500Unengaged and UnreachedSouthern GreboEthnoreligion

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