The Dar Fur Daju of Sudan

The Dar Fur Daju of Sudan, numbering approximately 128,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are one of seven ethnic subgroups within the larger Daju people, concentrated in southern Darfur (Sudan) and parts of Chad and the Nuba Hills. They are an Indigenous people, in the Ouaddai-Fur people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam. They primarily speak Daju, Dar Fur.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Northern African and Middle Eastern Peoples
Country: Sudan
People Cluster: Ouaddai-Fur
Primary Language(s): Daju, Dar Fur (daj)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 128,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): No Evangelicals, Churches or Resources
People Group ID: PG011997
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

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Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Daju, Dar Fur
Language Family: Dajuic

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Next steps for the Dar Fur Daju

The Dar Fur Daju are Unengaged and Unreached, 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.

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Send cross-cultural teams to discover and research this people group
Begin gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group

Next steps for the Dar Fur Daju

The Dar Fur Daju 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.

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

Next steps for the Dar Fur Daju

The Dar Fur Daju 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.

Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Dar Fur Daju of Sudan

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
readRomans 10:14

Pray that those who haven't heard will hear the Word of Christ and believe in Him, calling upon the name of the Lord to be saved.

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.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
readPsalm 23:4

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will trust in the Lord's presence, even in the darkest valleys.

And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
readColossians 1:20

As believers cross cultures to tell others about Jesus, praise God for allowing them to be a part of His reconciling all things to Himself, asking Him to help them remember their role in His beautiful plan of salvation for others.

Daju, Dar Fur (ROP3 - 102392) reported in the following countries:

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