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The Kyibaku of Nigeria

The Kyibaku of Nigeria, numbering approximately 237,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous Chadic people of the Chibok highlands of northeastern Nigeria who emerged from the convergence of several regional communities and maintain a distinct Kyibaku identity through their Cibak language and hill-country heritage. They mostly adhere to Neo-Pentecostalism and Cibak is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Nigeria
People Cluster: Chadic
Primary Language(s): Cibak (ckl)
Primary Religion(s): Neo-Pentecostalism
Population: 237,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG013953
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Pray for the Kyibaku of Nigeria

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Neo-Pentecostalism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

78%
%
Neo-Pentecostalism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Cibak
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%
%
Kibaku Speakers

Media Resources in Cibak:

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Bible Resources in Cibak:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Kyibaku 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.

Next steps for the Kyibaku:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Kyibaku of Nigeria

"For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" But he said "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
readLuke 18:25-27

Pray that the lost who think they have everything they need will recognize their spiritual poverty apart from Jesus and turn to Him in faith.

The LORD watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
readPsalm 146:9

Pray for God to watch over people, wherever they are, and cause them to meet believers who will share the gospel with them clearly and lovingly.

Jesus said, ‘Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
readMark 10:29-30

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will know that when they make sacrifices to follow Jesus, He is there with them and will bless them abundantly in this life and in the life to come.

Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.
readLuke 10:3

Ask God to raise up and send humble believers who will depend on Him as they go out like lambs among wolves to share the good news with those who need to hear it.

Kyibaku Across Countries (ROP3 - 105549) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
KyibakuPG013953KyibakuNigeria237,000No Longer UnreachedCibakNeo-Pentecostalism

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