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The Southern Sotho of Lesotho

The Southern Sotho of Lesotho, numbering approximately 1,920,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached.
They are described as a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group indigenous to Lesotho and South Africa and can also be known as Lowlands/Foothills Basotho, Lowland Basotho.
They are an Indigenous people, with Sotho as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Bantu, Sotho-Tswana people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African.
Their primary religion is Christianity - Roman Catholicism.
They primarily speak Sotho, Southern.

Unengaged and Unreached

The Southern Sotho are Unengaged and Unreached, 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.

Unreached yet Engaged

The Southern Sotho 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.

No longer Unreached

The Southern Sotho are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

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readMatthew 6:7-8

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readMatthew 24:14

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I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me. I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.
readPsalm 3:5-6

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