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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Toma of Guinea

The Toma of Guinea, numbering approximately 335,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Guinea. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Toma is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Guinea
People Cluster: Mande
Primary Language(s): Toma (tod)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 335,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG013433
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Pray for the Toma of Guinea

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

53%
%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Toma
Language Family: Mande

100%
%
Toma Speakers

Media Resources in Toma:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Toma:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Bible Society of Guinea Version✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Toma bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Toma 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 Toma:
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 Toma of Guinea

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.

But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.
readMark 4:20

Pray that those who have never encountered the gospel will have the opportunity to receive it, and that it will fall on good soil and bear much fruit.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
readPsalm 119:105

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will meditate daily on the Word of God so that, through it, they might have wisdom for the big and small decisions they face every day.

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
readPsalm 96:4

Pray that God will raise up believers to declare His glory among the lost, so that they may know that He is great and greatly to be praised, that He is exalted above all gods.

Toma Across Countries (ROP3 - 110143) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
TomaPG013433TomaGuinea335,000No Longer UnreachedTomaEthnoreligion

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