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The Ngok Dinka of Sudan

The Ngok Dinka of Sudan, numbering approximately 121,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Dinka people comprising nine traditional chiefdoms whose ancestral homeland is the disputed Abyei Area, where their communities have historically maintained settlements, cattle camps, grazing areas, burial grounds, and sacred sites. They mostly adhere to African Traditional Religion and Northwestern Dinka is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Sudan
People Cluster: Nilotic
Primary Language(s): Northwestern Dinka (diw)
Primary Religion(s): African Traditional Religion
Population: 121,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG050694

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: African Traditional Religion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

50%
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African Traditional Relig… Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Northwestern Dinka
Language Family: Nilotic

100%
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Northwestern Dinka Speakers

Media Resources in Northwestern Dinka:

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Bible Resources in Northwestern Dinka:

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Ngok Dinka 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 Ngok Dinka:
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 Ngok Dinka of Sudan

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
readMatthew 11:28

Pray for those who are tired, weary, and burdened by the weight of sin to encounter Jesus and experience the rest that only He can give.

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
readRomans 9:16

Pray that the merciful God who is at work in people's hearts will advance His gospel among them.

Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!
readPsalm 105:3

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will glory in His holy name and that their hearts will rejoice.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
readMatthew 9:37-38

Pray that the Lord of the harvest will raise up believers to send out into His harvest field, which is ripe and ready.

Dinka, Ngok Across Countries (ROP3 - 119749) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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1 people group

Photo People Group ID Name ▲ Country Population Strategic Progress Index Language Religion
Ngok Dinka PG050694 Ngok Dinka Sudan 121,000 Engaged yet Unreached Northwestern Dinka African Traditional Religion

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