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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Gula of Chad

The Gula of Chad, numbering approximately 11,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Bua-speaking people of southern Chad's Guera region near Lake Iro, whose language and culture set them apart from the unrelated Gula of Sudan and Central African Republic despite the shared name. They mostly adhere to Folk Islam and Zan Gula is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Chad
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Zan Gula (zna)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Islam
Population: 11,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG011356
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

40%
%
Folk Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Zan Gula
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Zan Gula Speakers

Media Resources in Zan Gula:

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Bible Resources in Zan Gula:

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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 Gula:
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Pray specifically for the Gula of Chad

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
readEphesians 2:4-5

Pray that those who have not yet received new life will be made alive together with Christ, saved by grace and raised up with Him to newness of life.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."
readIsaiah 52:7

Pray that those who don't know the good news of peace and salvation through Jesus Christ will have an opportunity to receive it. Pray that it will bring hope and healing to their souls.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
readHebrews 10:36

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will patiently endure suffering and hardships and do God's will so that they may receive what He has promised.

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
readLuke 10:1

Ask God to raise up, send out, and sustain Christians who can go together to share the good news of Jesus with those who need it.

Zan Gula Across Countries (ROP3 - 111142) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
GulaPG011356GulaChad11,500Unengaged and UnreachedZan GulaFolk Islam

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