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The Mangbetu of Uganda

The Mangbetu of Uganda, numbering approximately 110,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic indigenous to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Mangbetu is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Uganda
People Cluster: Sudanic
Primary Language(s): Mangbetu (mdj)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 110,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG015117
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Pray for the Mangbetu of Uganda

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mangbetu
Language Family: Central Sudanic

100%
%
Mangbetu Speakers

Media Resources in Mangbetu:

Films:
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Bible Resources in Mangbetu:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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Or check out the Mangbetu bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Mangbetu 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 Mangbetu:
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 Mangbetu of Uganda

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
readRomans 1:22

Ask God to pour out His mercy and bring those who are walking in their own wisdom to faith in Jesus.

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
readJames 4:4

Pray that the lost will be convicted of their friendship with the world, which is hostility toward God, and that they will turn from their sin and embrace the grace and mercy of God through Christ Jesus.

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
readDeuteronomy 6:6-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will hide God's Word in their hearts, let it shape their conversations and daily lives, and pass on their faith to the next generation.

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
readJohn 1:9-10

Pray for those God might send to share the gospel here. Ask that they will grow closer to Jesus and be compelled to share His good news with people who don't know it.

Mangbetu Across Countries (ROP3 - 106251) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▲PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
MangbetuPG014643MangbetuCongo, Democratic Republic of the2,110,000No Longer UnreachedMangbetuRoman Catholicism
MangbetuPG015117MangbetuUganda110,000Engaged yet UnreachedMangbetuEthnoreligion

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