People group profile · PG011409
The Mbara of Chad
The Mbara of Chad, numbering about 4,400 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Chad (Chari-Baguirmi region).
They are an indigenous people in the Chadic people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Islam, and they primarily speak Mbara (Chad).
Fast facts
- Country
- Chad
- Population
- 4,400
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Chadic
- Primary language
- Mbara (Chad) (mpk)
- Primary religion
- Folk Islam
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet 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
- Chari-Baguirmi region, Baguirmi Department, Massenya Subprefecture, and Mayo-Kebbi Est region, Mayo-Boneye Department, Bongor Subprefecture and Mayo Lemie Department, along Chari River, around Guélengdeng
Where they live
Gospel status
The Mbara are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. 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 Mbara
- 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
Primary religion
Folk Islam · Islam
95% adherents
Primary language
Mbara (Chad) · Afro-Asiatic family
85% speak Mbara (Chad)
Gospel resources in Mbara (Chad)
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Mbara
- 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.
- 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.
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