People group profile · PG013383
The Tumulung Sisaal of Ghana
The Tumulung Sisaal of Ghana, numbering about 181,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Gur-speaking farming people of Tumu in Ghana's Upper West Region, part of the Gurunsi ethnic cluster shaped by centuries of interaction with the expanding Mossi, Mamprusi and Dagomba states.
They are an indigenous people in the Gur people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Tumulung Sisaala.
Fast facts
- Country
- Ghana
- Population
- 181,000
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Gur
- Primary language
- Tumulung Sisaala (sil)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- Western Africa, Africa
- Location
- Upper East region: Bulisa district; Upper West region: Tumu area east to Sisili river
Where they live
Gospel status
The Tumulung Sisaal 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 Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Tumulung Sisaal
- 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
Animism · Ethnoreligion
48% adherents
Primary language
Tumulung Sisaala · Atlantic-Congo family
100% speak Tumulung Sisaala
Gospel resources in Tumulung Sisaala
- Bible available, published 2014
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 1984 GILLBT · audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Tumulung Sisaal
- 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.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
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