The Mundang of Cameroon

The Mundang of Cameroon, numbering approximately 192,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Adamawa-speaking people whose ancestors migrated from Cameroon into Chad's Mayo-Kebbi region, where they built a unified 18th-century kingdom centered on the town of Lere, with kin communities farming across the Cameroon-Chad-Nigeria borderlands. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Mundang is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cameroon
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Mundang (mua)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 192,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG012711
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

50%
%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mundang
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Mundang Speakers

Media Resources in Mundang:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

Bible Resources in Mundang:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Alliance Biblique du Tchad✓✓

1 entry

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Mundang 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.

Next steps for the Mundang:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Mundang of Cameroon

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
readMatthew 5:6

Pray for those who are lost to desire righteousness and to be filled with the peace and purpose that only comes from following Jesus.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."
readIsaiah 52:7

Pray that those who don't know the good news of peace and salvation through Jesus Christ will have an opportunity to receive it. Pray that it will bring hope and healing to their souls.

But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.
readHebrews 10:38

Pray that as people trust in Christ, they will live by faith and not shrink back from their hope in Christ.

And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.”
readLuke 18:29-30

Pray that God will raise up people to go and share the gospel and help them trust His promise that anyone who has left those they treasure for the sake of the kingdom of God will receive many times more in this life and in the life to come.

Mundang Across Countries (ROP3 - 106897) reported in the following countries:

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