People group profile · PG011365
The Jumam of Chad
The Jumam of Chad, numbering about 10,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a farming and fishing community of Chad's Mayo-Kebbi Est region, about two-thirds Christian and the rest holding traditional beliefs, growing finger millet, taro, and rice while speaking the Jumam dialect within the small Kim cluster.
They are an indigenous people in the Chadic people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Kim.
Fast facts
- Country
- Chad
- Population
- 10,000
- Affinity group
- Northern African and Middle Eastern Peoples
- People cluster
- Chadic
- Primary language
- Kim (kia)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Unengaged and Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- Middle Africa, Africa
- Location
- Mayo-Kebbi Est region: Mayo Boneye department, Djouman village
Where they live
Gospel status
The Jumam are Unengaged and Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, and there has been no reported church planting activity in the past two years. In GSEC terms, 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.
- Congregations exist No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Jumam
- Pray that God would send workers to this people group
- Begin sowing the gospel and seek out people of peace
- Plant the first churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
90% adherents
Primary language
Kim · Atlantic-Congo family
100% speak Kim
Gospel resources in Kim
- Bible available, published 2014
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Kim)
Bibles
- 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc · video, audio, text
- Alliance Biblique du Tchad, 2013 · video, audio
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Jumam
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
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