The Bulu of Cameroon

The Bulu of Cameroon, numbering approximately 1,420,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are one of three major subgroups of the Fang ethnic group in Cameroon. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Bulu (Cameroon) is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cameroon
People Cluster: Bantu, Central-Congo
Primary Language(s): Bulu (Cameroon) (bum)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 1,420,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG012558
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Bulu (Cameroon)
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Bulu (Cameroon) Speakers

Media Resources in Bulu (Cameroon):

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

Bible Resources in Bulu (Cameroon):

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1992 Bible Society of Cameroon✓

1 entry

Or check out the Bulu (Cameroon) bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Bulu 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 Bulu:
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 Bulu of Cameroon

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
readPsalm 51:1

Give thanks to God that He is able to forgive all the sins people might commit, and pray that many who don't yet know this will hear the good news and turn to Him for mercy.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
readRomans 5:10

Pray that God will remove obstacles to the gospel so that many will see the hope He offers through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, and be transformed from being enemies to being His friends.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
readPhilippians 2:5-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will imitate His humility in all they do.

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.

Bulu Fang Across Countries (ROP3 - 101731) reported in the following countries:

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