People group profile · PG006678
The Baima of China
The Baima of China, numbering about 23,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a small, distinct ethnic people of southwest–northwest China, best known as the Baima Tibetans or the “White Horse people”.
They are an indigenous people in the Tibetan people cluster of the Tibetan Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Baima.
Fast facts
- Country
- China
- Population
- 23,000
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Tibetan
- Primary language
- Baima (bqh)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- 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
- Also known as
- Báimǎ rén, 白马人, Baima Tibetans
- Region
- Eastern Asia, Asia
Where they live
Gospel status
The Baima 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 Baima
- 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
96% adherents
Primary language
Baima · Sino-Tibetan family
70% speak Baima
Gospel resources in Baima
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings 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 Baima
- 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.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
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