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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Ganda of Uganda

The Ganda of Uganda, numbering approximately 10,380,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Bantu-speaking ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Lake Victoria region of Uganda. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Ganda is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Uganda
People Cluster: Bantu, Makua-Yao
Primary Language(s): Ganda (lug)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 10,380,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG015080
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Pray for the Ganda of Uganda

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

60%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Ganda
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Ganda Speakers

Media Resources in Ganda:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

2 films

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Bible Resources in Ganda:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2003 Bible Society of Uganda✓✓
Luganda Contemporary Bible (Bayibuli Entukuvu)✓

2 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Ganda bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Ganda 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 Ganda:
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 Ganda of Uganda

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
readMatthew 24:14

Pray that the message of hope will reach those who are wandering in darkness, offering them a path to eternal life.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
read2 Timothy 4:3-4

Pray that the lost will be open to the truth of the gospel and turn from false teachings and myths to the sound doctrine of Christ in faith.

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
readJames 4:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will turn from worldly passions and live in unity with one another.

"Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."
readJohn 7:38

Ask God to raise up believers and sustain them as they cross cultures to share hope with those who need it. Pray that many might come to know Christ and that streams of living water will flow from their hearts so they will never thirst again.

Baganda Across Countries (ROP3 - 112045) reported in the following countries:

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5 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▼PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
BagandaPG047173BagandaUnited States8,700Unengaged and UnreachedGandaRoman Catholicism
GandaPG015080GandaUganda10,380,000Engaged yet UnreachedGandaProtestantism
GandaPG014927GandaTanzania72,000Unengaged and UnreachedGandaAfrican Traditional Religion
GandaPG014787GandaKenya47,500Unengaged and UnreachedGandaAfrican Traditional Religion
BagandaPG047477BagandaCanada6,200No Longer UnreachedGandaRoman Catholicism

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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