Yombe of Congo (PGID: PG013025)

The Yombe of Congo

The Yombe of Congo, numbering approximately 727,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Bantu people who migrated from the Gabon area to the Congo-Angola border in the 14th century, tracing their name to the old Mayomba Kingdom, later displaced from the Congo River banks by the expanding Kongo Kingdom. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Yombe is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Congo
People Cluster: Bantu, Central-South
Primary Language(s): Yombe (yom)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 727,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG013025
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Yombe
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

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Kiyombe Speakers

Media Resources in Yombe:

Films:

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Bible Resources in Yombe:

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Yombe 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 Yombe:

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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 Yombe of Congo

"...And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Luke 8:8

Pray that the seeds of truth will take root in the hearts of those who are far from Jesus and that He will lead them from darkness to light.

Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Psalm 2:10-11

Pray for the rulers and authorities here to seek the Lord and serve Him only. Pray that the people they lead will be amazed by the work of God in their lives.

Turn, O LORD, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
Psalm 6:4

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and still struggle with the worries of this life, God will deliver them from worry for the sake of His steadfast love.

Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19

Praise the God who is able to make a way forward, even when it seems impossible. Ask Him to do a new thing among this people group specifically and among the nations, raising up believers to go and share the gospel with individuals and places where it has not flourished before.

Yombe, Bayombe Across Countries (ROP3 - 111088) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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Engaged yet Unreached UUPG No Longer Unreached

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3 people groups

People Group ID	Name	Country	Population	Strategic Progress Index	Language	Religion ▼
PG014753	Yombe	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	1,510,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Yombe	Roman Catholicism
PG013025	Yombe	Congo	727,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Yombe	Protestantism
PG015211	Yombe	Angola	97,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Yombe	Ethnoreligion

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