People group profile · PG011561
The Burji of Ethiopia
The Burji of Ethiopia, numbering about 118,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Amharic ethnic group indigenous to Ethiopia, south of Lake Chamo.
They are an indigenous people in the Sidama people cluster of the Horn of Africa Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Burji.
Fast facts
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Population
- 118,000
- Affinity group
- Northern African and Middle Eastern Peoples
- People cluster
- Sidama
- Primary language
- Burji (bji)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- 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
- Eastern Africa, Africa
- Location
- Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ region: south of Lake Chamo; into Oromia region
Where they live
Gospel status
The Burji 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 Burji
- 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
60% adherents
Primary language
Burji · Afro-Asiatic family
60% speak Burji
Gospel resources in Burji
- Bible available, published 1993
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings 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 Burji
- 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.
Burji in other countries
The same people (ROP3 101771) is reported in 1 other country.
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