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The Pinyin of Cameroon

The Pinyin of Cameroon, numbering approximately 49,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Indigenous Grassfields people of Cameroon's Santa and Bamenda highlands whose identity is centered on the Pinyin chiefdoms, village-based Fon leadership, and the Pinyin language within the wider Ngemba cultural tradition. They mostly adhere to Neo-Pentecostalism and Pinyin is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cameroon
People Cluster: Bantu, Cameroon-Bamileke
Primary Language(s): Pinyin (pny)
Primary Religion(s): Neo-Pentecostalism
Population: 49,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG012771
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Neo-Pentecostalism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Neo-Pentecostalism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Pinyin
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Pinyin Speakers

Media Resources in Pinyin:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Pinyin:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2017 CABTAL✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Pinyin bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Pinyin 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 Pinyin:
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 Pinyin of Cameroon

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
readJames 2:5

Pray for those living in despair to experience the riches of God's love and the hope of eternal life through faith in Christ.

Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.
readMatthew 13:8-9

Pray that they will have open hearts and minds to the Word of God, and that it will take root in their lives and bear fruit for His glory.

For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
readPsalm 149:4

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be encouraged and feel immeasurably loved as they meditate on the fact that God takes pleasure in them.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
readPsalm 51:2

Pray that God will raise up believers to go and share the gospel with those in this people group who need to be washed of their iniquity and cleansed from their sins.

Pinyin Across Countries (ROP3 - 108047) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
PinyinPG012771PinyinCameroon49,500Engaged yet UnreachedPinyinNeo-Pentecostalism

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