People group profile · PG011569
The Dime of Ethiopia
The Dime of Ethiopia, numbering about 14,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a small Omotic-speaking agricultural people of southwestern Ethiopia whose contemporary religious life includes Christianity and traditional beliefs.
They are an indigenous people in the Omotic people cluster of the Horn of Africa Peoples. Their primary religion is Tewahedo Orthodox Christianity, and they primarily speak Dime.
Fast facts
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Population
- 14,000
- Affinity group
- Northern African and Middle Eastern Peoples
- People cluster
- Omotic
- Primary language
- Dime (dim)
- Primary religion
- Tewahedo Orthodox Christianity
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 10% or Greater but Less than 15%
- GSEC
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- Eastern Africa, Africa
- Location
- Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ region: north of Omo river, just before it turns south
Where they live
Gospel status
The Dime are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Dime
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Tewahedo Orthodox Christianity · Christianity
45% adherents
Primary language
Dime · South Omotic family
100% speak Dime
Gospel resources in Dime
- Bible available, published 2023
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories available
Films
- JESUS (Dime)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Dime
- 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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