People group profile · PG011427
The Mpade of Chad
The Mpade of Chad, numbering about 6,300 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Kotoko people of the Chari River valley near Nigeria who identify as Kotoko proper, descendants of the Sao civilization whose kingdom, founded around 1500, was absorbed into the Bornu Empire under warlord Rabih al-Zubayr, mixing Islam with folk religion.
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 Mpade.
Fast facts
- Country
- Chad
- Population
- 6,300
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Chadic
- Primary language
- Mpade (mpi)
- 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
Where they live
Gospel status
The Mpade 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 Mpade
- 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
Mpade · Afro-Asiatic family
85% speak Mpade
Gospel resources in Mpade
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Mpade
- 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.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
Mpade in other countries
The same people is also reported in 1 other country.
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