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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Tobagoan of Trinidad and Tobago

The Tobagoan of Trinidad and Tobago, numbering approximately 35,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Trinidad and Tobago. They are an Indigenous people, in the Afro-Caribbean people cluster of the Latin-Caribbean Americans affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Christianity - Protestantism. They primarily speak Tobagonian English Creole.

Tobagoan in Trinidad and Tobago photo
Photo courtesy of Joshua Project. Photo Source: Ricardo Patiño - Wikimedia Ricardo Patiño - Wikimedia Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
People Cluster: Afro-Caribbean
Primary Language(s): Tobagonian English Creole (tgh)
Primary Religion(s): Christianity - Protestantism
Population: 35,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG016450

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Christianity - Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Christianity - Protestant… Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tobagonian English Creole
Language Family: Creole

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Tobagonian English Creole Speakers

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Next steps for the Tobagoan

The Tobagoan 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 Tobagoan

The Tobagoan 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 Tobagoan

The Tobagoan 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 Tobagoan of Trinidad and Tobago

For one will scarcely die for a righteous personóthough perhaps for a good person one would dare even to dieóbut God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
readRomans 5:7-8

Pray for the many who don't yet understand the hope of the gospel, and pray that God will reveal to them that while they were in darkness, Christ died for them.

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
readMatthew 6:10

Pray that God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven, and that people will seek His kingdom and righteousness above all else, trusting in His provision.

For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
read1 Corinthians 9:19

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have hearts that want to serve the lost around them so that many might come to faith in Jesus.

"For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you."
readActs 17:23

Pray that believers God sends to cross cultures will be sensitive to the spiritual needs of the people they serve, and will proclaim the truth of Christ to them in creative ways that they will understand.

Tobagonian Creole English Speakers (ROP3 - 110111) reported in the following countries:

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