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State of the Great Commission in Chad

Despite 100 years of church presence in Chad, the country remains a uniquely peculiar missiological problem to solve. Chad’s population of 18.5 million people has profoundly uneven distribution of gospel access. 10.3 million people of its total population live in people groups without access to the gospel. Of Chad’s 141 distinct people groups, 80 distinct people are classified by Joshua Project as Unreached. Joshua Project regards 50 of those as Frontier, in desperate need of gospel work.

Maps of people group progress reveal a worrying pattern: virtually all Christians, churches, and reached people groups in Chad are south of the 10.9°, leaving the northern two-thirds of the country, roughly 10 million people, without gospel access at all. This pattern has continued despite the church having been meaningfully established in Chad for approximately 100 years. Joshua Project reports that the growth of evangelical Christianity in Chad occurs at 3.2%, almost identical to the World Bank’s estimate of the rate of growth for Chad’s population in 2022. This means that if nothing is done, the church in Chad is on track to remain stagnant and that unreached peoples and places in Chad will remain without access to the gospel.

Despite these problems, there is good reason to be optimistic in the belief that necessary interventions are both possible and likely to succeed. The Church in Chad has shown unprecedented unity in their desire to see the unreached in Chad reached with the gospel of Christ. As noted below, both City for the Nations, Joshua Nations, and our vital partners have been active participants in events where denominations and associations of denominations have committed to working together to that end. The initiatives born from this unity, which include the programs for which we are seeking funding, require only training, funding, and vision to create eternal differences in the destiny of Chad.

Engaging the Unreached in Chad

City for the Nations leads an effort to foster disciple-making movements among 18 of Chad’s 80 unreached people groups. This effort has involved recruiting, training, and deploying Chadian Christians, paying for them to move to villages among those people groups. There, they have planted multiplying churches and travelled to adjacent villages to do likewise.