People group profile · PG015005
The Ngindo of Tanzania
The Ngindo of Tanzania, numbering about 637,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Bantu people of southeastern Tanzania's Liwale and Kilwa districts, whose homeland in what became the Selous Game Reserve endured 1800s Ngoni raids and later formed the heartland of the Maji Maji rebellion against German colonial rule.
They are an indigenous people in the Bantu, Makua-Yao people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam, and they primarily speak Ngindo.
Fast facts
- Country
- Tanzania
- Population
- 637,000
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Bantu, Makua-Yao
- Primary language
- Ngindo (nnq)
- Primary religion
- Sunni Islam
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- Eastern Africa, Africa
- Location
- Lindi and Morogoro regions
Where they live
Gospel status
The Ngindo 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 Ngindo
- 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
Sunni Islam · Islam
99% adherents
Primary language
Ngindo · Atlantic-Congo family
95% speak Ngindo
Gospel resources in Ngindo
- Bible available, published 2015
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Ngindo)
Bibles
- Lilagano Liyono ku Bandu Boa · video, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Ngindo
- 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.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
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