People group profile · PG006211
The Galle Gurung of Nepal
The Galle Gurung of Nepal, numbering about 35,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a language of Nepal, Gandaki zone: Gorkha District, hills sount of Macha Khola.
They are an indigenous people in the Tibetan people cluster of the Tibetan Peoples. Their primary religion is Hinduism, and they primarily speak Southern Ghale.
Fast facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Population
- 35,000
- Affinity group
- South Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- Tibetan
- Primary language
- Southern Ghale (ghe)
- Primary religion
- Hinduism
- 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
- Southern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Gandaki province: Gorkha district, Dharche and Sulikot municipalities
Where they live
Gospel status
The Galle Gurung 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 Galle Gurung
- 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
94% adherents
Primary language
Southern Ghale · Sino-Tibetan family
100% speak Southern Ghale
Gospel resources in Southern Ghale
- Bible available, published 2011
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Galle Gurung
- 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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