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The Southern Grebo of Liberia

The Southern Grebo of Liberia, numbering approximately 133,000 people, are Engaged yet 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: Liberia
People Cluster: Kru
Primary Language(s): Southern Grebo (grj)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 133,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG013496
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Pray for the Southern Grebo of Liberia

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
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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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Southern Grebo 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 Southern Grebo:
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 Southern Grebo of Liberia

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.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 3:23

Pray that the gospel will advance and many will acknowledge that all have sinned, fall short of God's glory, and need a Savior to reconcile them to God.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
readJames 1:5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will ask God for wisdom when they lack it, trusting that He will generously give it to them.

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

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