People group profile · PG042723
The Harso of Ethiopia
The Harso of Ethiopia, numbering about 10,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Gawwada dialect community of Ethiopia's Omo region, known as Harso or Worase, whose speech shares 92 percent of its vocabulary with the closely related Gollango dialect but only 41 percent with the linguistically distant Konso people to the south.
They are an indigenous people in the Omotic people cluster of the Horn of Africa Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Gawwada.
Fast facts
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Population
- 10,500
- Affinity group
- Northern African and Middle Eastern Peoples
- People cluster
- Omotic
- Primary language
- Gawwada (gwd)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- Unengaged and 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: Segen zone, west of Lake Chamo
Where they live
Gospel status
The Harso are Unengaged and Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, and there has been no reported church planting activity in the past two years. 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 Harso
- Pray that God would send workers to this people group
- Begin sowing the gospel and seek out people of peace
- Plant the first churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
Primary language
Gawwada · Afro-Asiatic family
100% speak Gawwada
Gospel resources in Gawwada
- Bible available, published 2020
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Ale, Gawwada)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Harso
- 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.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
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