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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Worodougou Jula of Côte d’Ivoire

The Worodougou Jula of Côte d’Ivoire, numbering approximately 138,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Côte d'Ivoire and can also be known as Worodougoukakan, Ouorodougou, Worodougou, Worodougou, Bakokan, Worodugu. They are an Indigenous people, in the Malinke-Jula people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Islam - Folk. They primarily speak Worodougou.

Worodougou Jula in Côte d’Ivoire photo
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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-saharan Africa Peoples
Country: Côte d’Ivoire
People Cluster: Malinke-Jula
Primary Language(s): Worodougou (jud)
Primary Religion(s): Islam - Folk
Population: 138,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Active CP Activity
People Group ID: PG013148

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Islam - Folk
Religious Affiliation: Islam

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Islam - Folk Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Worodougou
Language Family: Niger-Congo

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Worodougou Speakers

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Next steps for the Worodougou Jula

The Worodougou Jula are Unengaged and Unreached, 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.

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Next steps for the Worodougou Jula

The Worodougou Jula 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.

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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

Next steps for the Worodougou Jula

The Worodougou Jula are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

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Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Worodougou Jula of Côte d’Ivoire

While he was coming, the demon threw him to the ground and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
readLuke 9:42

Pray that those who are living outside of the hope of the gospel will know and trust that Jesus offers freedom from the oppression of sin and hope in eternal life.

Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.
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Pray that many here will come and see what the Creator God has done on their behalf.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
readPhilippians 2:5-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will imitate His humility in all they do.

For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
read2 Corinthians 1:5

When any who might believe suffer for the sake of the gospel, ask God to deepen their understanding of His grace so that they may share it freely with those who have not received it.

Worodougou (ROP3 - 114492) reported in the following countries:

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