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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

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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

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
readRomans 5:10

Pray that any who may be enemies of God will grasp the depth of God's love demonstrated through Christ's death for the ungodly, and be reconciled to Him.

"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet."
readMatthew 5:13

Pray that the lost will have the opportunity to hear a Christian witness of how the gospel can bring hope and that they will put their faith in Christ.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 6:11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will lay down all evil desires, dying to sin and living for Him alone.

Oh give thanks to the LORD; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!
readPsalm 105:1

Pray that many among them will call on the name of Jesus, develop a heart for the nations, and go to places where the gospel has not yet been received.

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

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▼CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Ngok DinkaPG050694Ngok DinkaSudan121,000Engaged yet UnreachedNorthwestern DinkaAfrican Traditional Religion

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