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The Sereer of Gambia

The Sereer of Gambia, numbering approximately 66,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a matrilineal people whose ancestors fled forced Islamization in 11th-century Takrur to found the Sine and Saloum kingdoms, ruled by kings titled Maad a Sinig and Maad Saloum, resisting further Islamization through the 19th-century jihad era. They mostly adhere to Folk Islam and Serer is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Sereer

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Gambia
People Cluster: Atlantic
Primary Language(s): Serer (srr)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Islam
Population: 66,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG042196
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Pray for the Sereer of Gambia

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

78%
%
Folk Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Serer
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Serer-Sine Speakers

Media Resources in Serer:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Serer:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1987 Bible Society of Senegal✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Serer bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Sereer 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 Sereer:
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 Sereer of Gambia

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life"
readJohn 4:13-14

Pray that those who don't know Jesus will drink of the living water that only Christ can provide and never thirst again.

Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.
readIsaiah 55:6

Pray that the lost will seek the Lord while He may be found and call upon Him while He is near, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
read1 Peter 2:9

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will embrace their identity as God's chosen people, royal priests, and holy nation, living out their faith with purity and devotion.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

Sereer Across Countries (ROP3 - 108862) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▲NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
SereerPG042183SereerSenegal2,565,000Engaged yet UnreachedSererSunni Islam
SereerPG042196SereerGambia66,500Engaged yet UnreachedSererFolk Islam

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