People group profile · PG006308
The Tilung of Nepal
The Tilung of Nepal, numbering about 400 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Nepal.
They are an indigenous people in the South Himalayan people cluster of the Himalayan Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Tilung.
Fast facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Population
- 400
- Affinity group
- South Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- South Himalayan
- Primary language
- Tilung (tij)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- Southern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Kosi province: Khotang district, Halesi Tuwachung municipality, along Sunkosi river
Where they live
Gospel status
The Tilung 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 Tilung
- 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
Animism · Ethnoreligion
90% adherents
Primary language
Tilung · Sino-Tibetan family
70% speak Tilung
Gospel resources in Tilung
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Tilung
- 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.
- 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.
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