The Nchumburu of Ghana

The Nchumburu of Ghana, numbering approximately 77,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Guan-speaking people of Ghana's Lake Volta region whose Chumburung kingdom in the Yeji-Atebubu-Kwame Danso triangle predates 1700, dispersed into small villages by Asante expansion and Gonja raids while maintaining ties to the Volta's waters They are an Indigenous people, with Nchumburu as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Guinean people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Neo-Pentecostalism. They primarily speak Chumburung.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Ghana
People Cluster: Guinean
Primary Language(s): Chumburung (ncu)
Primary Religion(s): Neo-Pentecostalism
Population: 77,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG013366
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Neo-Pentecostalism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Neo-Pentecostalism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Chumburung
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Chumburung Speakers

Media Resources in Chumburung:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

Bible Resources in Chumburung:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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1 entry

Or check out the Chumburung bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Nchumburu 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 Nchumburu:
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 Nchumburu of Ghana

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
readRomans 1:22

Ask God to pour out His mercy and bring those who are walking in their own wisdom to faith in Jesus.

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
readLuke 13:3

Pray that the lost will repent and believe the gospel, for without it, they will perish.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
readGalatians 3:28

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be united in Christ across all differences of ethnicity, social status, and gender.

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
readActs 17:29

Pray that God will send out laborers to tell people of the one true God and, as the good news is shared, bring about repentance and belief as they turn from idols and follow Jesus.

Nchumburu Across Countries (ROP3 - 107144) reported in the following countries:

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