The Gurma of Ghana

The Gurma of Ghana, numbering approximately 1,695,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Gur-speaking people whose ancestors migrated from the Gambaga Scarp of northeastern Ghana, some founding the first Mossi kingdom at Tenkodogo while others pressed on to establish the Fada N'Gourma kingdom They are an Indigenous people, with Gurma (Gourma) as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Gur people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Gourmanchéma is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Ghana
People Cluster: Gur
Primary Language(s): Gourmanchéma (gux)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 1,695,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG013333

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Gourmanchéma
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Gourmanchéma Speakers

Media Resources in Gourmanchéma:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

Bible Resources in Gourmanchéma:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2003 Alliance Biblique du Burkina Faso✓✓✓

1 entry

Or check out the Gourmanchéma bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Gurma 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 Gurma:
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 Gurma of Ghana

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
read1 John 3:8

Pray for those living in darkness to recognize the destructive power of sin and the victory Christ has won over it.

Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
readMark 10:14b

Praise Jesus for the way He loves children, asking that many will learn the truth about Him and come to Him unhindered.

In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?
readPsalm 56:10-11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will trust in the Lord's promises, knowing that He will uphold them with His righteous right hand.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
read1 Corinthians 9:22

Ask God to raise up believers from around the world to go and share the hope of Jesus with the lost so that they might trust in Him and have the hope of eternal life.

Gurma Across Countries (ROP3 - 103587) reported in the following countries:

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