People group profile · PG015376
The Chuabo of Mozambique
The Chuabo of Mozambique, numbering about 2,305,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Bantu-speaking people of central coastal Mozambique whose identity is rooted in the Chuwabu language, farming and fishing livelihoods, kinship networks, and cultural traditions of the Zambezia region.
They are an indigenous people in the Bantu, Makua-Yao people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Chuwabu.
Fast facts
- Country
- Mozambique
- Population
- 2,305,000
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Bantu, Makua-Yao
- Primary language
- Chuwabu (chw)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, Dispersed CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- Eastern Africa, Africa
- Location
- Zambezia province: central coast between Mlanje and Quelimane mountains
Where they live
Gospel status
The Chuabo 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 but there has been dispersed church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years Dispersed Church Planting
Next steps for the Chuabo
- 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
75% adherents
Primary language
Chuwabu · Atlantic-Congo family
100% speak Chuwabu
Gospel resources in Chuwabu
- Bible available, published 2003
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Chwabo)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Chuabo
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
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