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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Bandawa-Minda of Nigeria

The Bandawa-Minda of Nigeria, numbering approximately 37,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Nigeria and can also be known as Bandos, Jinleri, Bakula, Bandos. They are an Indigenous people, in the Benue people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Islam - Folk. They primarily speak Shoo-Minda-Nye.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-saharan Africa Peoples
Country: Nigeria
People Cluster: Benue
Primary Language(s): Shoo-Minda-Nye (bcv)
Primary Religion(s): Islam - Folk
Population: 37,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG013664
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Primary Religion: Islam - Folk
Religious Affiliation: Islam

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Islam - Folk Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Shoo-Minda-Nye
Language Family: Niger-Congo

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Shoo-Minda-Nye Speakers

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Next steps for the Bandawa-Minda

The Bandawa-Minda 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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Next steps for the Bandawa-Minda

The Bandawa-Minda 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 Bandawa-Minda

The Bandawa-Minda 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 Bandawa-Minda of Nigeria

All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.
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Pray that those who are enslaved to sin will admit their need for a Savior, acknowledging that no one is righteous.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
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Pray that rulers and leaders will access the gospel, respond in faith, and be baptized, uniting with Christ and His Church, and influence others to follow Him.

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works.
readHebrews 10:24

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will love and encourage one another, spurring each other on to live lives that honor God.

For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
read2 Corinthians 1:5

When any who might believe suffer for the sake of the gospel, ask God to deepen their understanding of His grace so that they may share it freely with those who have not received it.

Banda (Shoo-Minda-Nye) (ROP3 - 104277) reported in the following countries:

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