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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Bon Gula of Chad

The Bon Gula of Chad, numbering approximately 3,900 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are described as a small Chadic people near Chad's Zakouma National Park, the only ethnic group not relocated when the reserve was established, devoted to the pre-Islamic Marghai religion with reverence for sacred mountains and snakes despite nominal Muslim identity They are an Indigenous people, with Bon Gula as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Adamawa-Ubangi people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Folk Islam and Bon Gula is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Chad
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Bon Gula (glc)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Islam
Population: 3,900
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): No Evangelicals, Churches or Resources
People Group ID: PG011326
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

58%
%
Folk Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Bon Gula
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Bon Gula Speakers

Media Resources in Bon Gula:

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Bible Resources in Bon Gula:

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): No Evangelicals, Churches or Resources (GSEC: 0), there are no evangelical Christians or churches among this people group and there is no access to evangelical print, audio, visual or human resources

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Pray specifically for the Bon Gula of Chad

But he said, "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
readLuke 18:27

Praise God that He is the God of impossible things and that He is able to save even those who seem beyond hope.

The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.
readMatthew 4:16

Pray that those who dwell in darkness and live in the land of the shadow of death may be drawn out of darkness into His marvelous light.

This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
readEphesians 5:32-33

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will grasp the profound mystery of Christ's love for the Church, reflecting this love in their marriages.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
readMark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

Bon Gula Across Countries (ROP3 - 101586) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Bon GulaPG011326Bon GulaChad3,900Unengaged and UnreachedBon GulaFolk Islam

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