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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Gidar of Chad

The Gidar of Chad, numbering approximately 38,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an indigenous community of Chad They are an Indigenous people, with Gidar as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Chadic people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism. They primarily speak Gidar.

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Fast Facts*:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Chad
People Cluster: Chadic
Primary Language(s): Gidar (gid)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 38,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG011351
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

43%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Gidar
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%
%
Gidar Speakers

Media Resources in Gidar:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Gidar:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1985 Bible Society of Cameroon✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Gidar bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Gidar 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 Gidar:
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 Gidar of Chad

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
read1 Timothy 6:9

Pray for those, rich and poor, who have put their trust in worldly things, and ask that they will be honest with themselves, acknowledge their need for God and turn to Him.

"O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me."
readJohn 17:25

Pray that the lost will come to know the Father and Jesus Christ, whom He has sent, and that they will be filled with His love and grace.

Sanctify them in the truth, your word is truth.
readJohn 17:17

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will experience freedom from sin as God sanctifies them in the truth of His Word.

And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
readColossians 1:20

As believers cross cultures to tell others about Jesus, praise God for allowing them to be a part of His reconciling all things to Himself, asking Him to help them remember their role in His beautiful plan of salvation for others.

Gidar Across Countries (ROP3 - 103359) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
GidarPG012605GidarCameroon181,000No Longer UnreachedGidarFolk Islam
GidarPG011351GidarChad38,000No Longer UnreachedGidarAnimism

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