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The Gurma of Nigeria

The Gurma of Nigeria, numbering approximately 48,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Nigeria; a dialect subgroup of Gourmanchéma (gux). They mostly adhere to Animism and Gourmanchéma is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Nigeria
People Cluster: Gur
Primary Language(s): Gourmanchéma (gux)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 48,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG013816
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

53%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Gourmanchéma
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Gourmanchéma Speakers

Media Resources in Gourmanchéma:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Gourmanchéma:

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

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

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 Nigeria

Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
readGenesis 22:8

Pray that God will open the ears of those who are lost to understand and believe that only shed blood takes away sin and that, like Abraham, they will believe that God Himself provides the lamb for the burnt offering, who is Jesus the final, perfect sacrifice.

All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.
readPsalm 66:4

Pray that the good news of Jesus will advance here and that many will bow down and sing praises to His name.

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.

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.

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

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6 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
GurmaPG013333GurmaGhana1,700,000Engaged yet UnreachedGourmanchémaEthnoreligion
GurmaPG012402GurmaBurkina Faso1,250,000No Longer UnreachedGourmanchémaEthnoreligion
GurmaPG014357GurmaTogo326,000Engaged yet UnreachedGourmanchémaEthnoreligion
GurmaPG012326GurmaBenin145,000Unengaged and UnreachedGourmanchémaAnimism
GurmaPG013599GurmaNiger90,000No Longer UnreachedGourmanchémaEthnoreligion
GurmaPG013816GurmaNigeria48,000Engaged yet UnreachedGourmanchémaAnimism

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