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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Pero of Nigeria

The Pero of Nigeria, numbering approximately 58,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a farming people of the Gombe River Valley in northeastern Nigeria's Gombe State, whose ancestors migrated from the Adamawa region in the 1600s and are traditionally led by a ruler called the Talban Pero. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Pero is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Nigeria
People Cluster: Chadic
Primary Language(s): Pero (pip)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 58,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG014080
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

73%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Pero
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%
%
Pero Speakers

Media Resources in Pero:

Films:
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Bible Resources in Pero:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Pero 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.

Next steps for the Pero:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Pero of Nigeria

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
readRomans 1:20

As God's creation declares His glory, pray that multitudes who don't know Him will see the works of His hands and desire to know more about the Creator.

Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
readPsalm 34:8

Pray that the gospel will advance and that many will have the opportunity to taste and see the goodness of God and entrust their lives to Him.

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.

And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
readColossians 1:20

As believers cross cultures to tell others about Jesus, praise God for allowing them to be a part of His reconciling all things to Himself, asking Him to help them remember their role in His beautiful plan of salvation for others.

Pero Across Countries (ROP3 - 107986) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
PeroPG014080PeroNigeria58,000No Longer UnreachedPeroProtestantism

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