The Afrikaners of United Kingdom

The Afrikaners of United Kingdom, numbering approximately 66,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are described as a South African ethnic group primarily of Dutch, German, and French Huguenot descent They are an Diaspora people, with Afrikaner as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Germanic people cluster of the Eurasian Peoples. Their primary religion is Protestantism. They primarily speak Afrikaans.

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Fast Facts*:

Affinity Group: Eurasian Peoples
Country: United Kingdom
People Cluster: Germanic
Primary Language(s): Afrikaans (afr)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 66,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG000608
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Afrikaans
Language Family: Indo-European

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Afrikaans Speakers

Media Resources in Afrikaans:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

2 films

Bible Resources in Afrikaans:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Die Bybel in Afrikaans 1983-vertaling

1 entry

Or check out the Afrikaans bible at Bible.com

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), 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.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Afrikaners:
Begin signifcant prayer and fasting for this group
Send cross-cultural teams to discover and research this people group
Begin gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group

Pray specifically for the Afrikaners of United Kingdom

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
readJohn 3:19

Pray that God will have mercy on those who love the darkness they are walking in and turn from their sin to faith in Christ.

Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
readGenesis 2:7

Pray that Christians will be able to share the hope of Christ with suffering people and that He will breathe new life into their souls.

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.
read1 Peter 3:15

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will always be prepared to share the reason for the hope that they have in Jesus with gentleness and respect.

And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
readMatthew 7:28-29

Pray that God will remind believers that they have His authority as they share His truth with the lost, and pray He will draw crowds of people to this message and plant it deeply in their hearts.

Afrikaner Across Countries (ROP3 - 100093) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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11 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
AfrikanersAfrikanersSouth Africa2,705,000No Longer UnreachedAfrikaansNeo-Pentecostalism
AfrikanersAfrikanersNamibia121,000No Longer UnreachedAfrikaansNeo-Pentecostalism
AfrikanersAfrikanersZambia86,500Unengaged and UnreachedAfrikaansNeo-Pentecostalism
AfrikanersAfrikanersUnited Kingdom66,500Unengaged and UnreachedAfrikaansProtestantism
AfrikanersAfrikanersZimbabwe44,500No Longer UnreachedAfrikaansNeo-Pentecostalism
AfrikanersAfrikanersCanada30,500No Longer UnreachedAfrikaansProtestantism
AfrikanersAfrikanersBotswana27,500Engaged yet UnreachedAfrikaansNeo-Pentecostalism
AfrikanersAfrikanersUnited States21,500No Longer UnreachedAfrikaansNeo-Pentecostalism
AfrikanersAfrikanersEswatini17,000No Longer UnreachedAfrikaansNeo-Pentecostalism
AfrikanersAfrikanersAngola4,000Engaged yet UnreachedAfrikaansNeo-Pentecostalism
AfrikanersAfrikanersLesotho2,500No Longer UnreachedAfrikaansNeo-Pentecostalism

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