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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Baya of Sudan

The Baya of Sudan, numbering approximately 19,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a diaspora subgroup of the Northwest Gbaya people whose wider Gbaya population is centered in Central Africa. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Northwest Gbaya is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Sudan
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Northwest Gbaya (gya)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 19,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG011978
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Northwest Gbaya
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Gbaya, Northwest Speakers

Media Resources in Northwest Gbaya:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Northwest Gbaya:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1995 Bible Society of Cameroon✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Northwest Gbaya bible at Bible.com

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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): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Baya:
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Pray specifically for the Baya of Sudan

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life"
readJohn 4:13-14

Pray that those who don't know Jesus will drink of the living water that only Christ can provide and never thirst again.

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!
readPsalm 96:8

Pray for people here to humbly give God the glory due His name.

Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
readPsalm 6:8

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, God will remind them that He is near and will help them place their hope in Him when others wish to do them harm.

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.

Baya, Gbaya Across Countries (ROP3 - 101166) reported in the following countries:

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4 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▼CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Northwest GbayaPG012833Northwest GbayaCentral African Republic353,000Engaged yet UnreachedNorthwest GbayaEthnoreligion
GbayaPG012601GbayaCameroon447,000No Longer UnreachedNorthwest GbayaProtestantism
GbayaPG012969GbayaCongo6,300Unengaged and UnreachedNorthwest GbayaEthnoreligion
BayaPG011978BayaSudan19,000Unengaged and UnreachedNorthwest GbayaProtestantism

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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