The Fulbe-Mbororo of Central African Republic

The Fulbe-Mbororo of Central African Republic, numbering approximately 220,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a nomadic pastoralist branch of the Fulani people ranging across the Sahel grasslands of Central African Republic and neighboring Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, following seasonal cattle-herding routes and Sunni Islam with strong folk tradition. They mostly adhere to Folk Islam and Nigerian Fulfulde is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Central African Republic
People Cluster: Fulani / Fulbe
Primary Language(s): Nigerian Fulfulde (fuv)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Islam
Population: 220,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG012897

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

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%
Folk Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Nigerian Fulfulde
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Fulfulde, Nigerian Speakers

Media Resources in Nigerian Fulfulde:

Films:
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JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

2 films

Bible Resources in Nigerian Fulfulde:

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2 entries

Or check out the Nigerian Fulfulde bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Fulbe-Mbororo 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 Fulbe-Mbororo:
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 Fulbe-Mbororo of Central African Republic

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.
readMark 10:15

Pray for those who might be trapped in pride, that God will humble them and give them a childlike faith and complete dependence on Him through faith in Christ.

Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
readIsaiah 43:19

Pray that the lost will see the new thing God can do in their lives and trust in His plan and purpose for them.

Jesus said, ‘Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
readMark 10:29-30

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will know that when they make sacrifices to follow Jesus, He is there with them and will bless them abundantly in this life and in the life to come.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

Fulani, Nigerian Across Countries (ROP3 - 101622) reported in the following countries:

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