People group profile · PG006754
The Hainan Island Hakka of China
The Hainan Island Hakka of China, numbering about 2,700 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Hakka community of northwestern Hainan descended from migrant settlers, speaking a distinct island Hakka variety and concentrated around the Songtao Reservoir region.
They are an indigenous people in the Chinese people cluster of the East Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Daoism, and they primarily speak Hakka Chinese.
Fast facts
- Country
- China
- Population
- 2,700
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Chinese
- Primary language
- Hakka Chinese (hak)
- Primary religion
- Daoism
- 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
- Eastern Asia, Asia
Where they live
Gospel status
The Hainan Island Hakka 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 Hainan Island Hakka
- 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
Daoism · Ethnoreligion
42% adherents
Primary language
Hakka Chinese · Sino-Tibetan family
100% speak Hakka Chinese
Gospel resources in Hakka Chinese
- Bible available, published 2012
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
Bibles
- Kartidaya · audio
- Today's Taiwanese Hakka Bible · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Hainan Island Hakka
- 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.
- 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.
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