People group profile · PG009358
The Tempasuk Dusun of Malaysia
The Tempasuk Dusun of Malaysia, numbering about 14,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Dusunic-speaking people of Sabah's Kota Belud area, whose ancestors migrated through the Marak-Parak valley to Tempasuk before splitting into groups bound for Kudat and the west coast, part of Sabah's Kadazan-Dusun community.
They are an indigenous people in the Borneo-Kalimantan people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Kadazan Dusun.
Fast facts
- Country
- Malaysia
- Population
- 14,500
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Borneo-Kalimantan
- Primary language
- Kadazan Dusun (dtp)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 15% or Greater but Less than 20%
- GSEC
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Sabah: West Coast division, Beaufort, Keningau, Kota Belud, Kota Kinabalu, Kota Marudu, Papar, Penampang, Ranau, Tambunan, and Tenom districts
Where they live
Gospel status
The Tempasuk Dusun are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Tempasuk Dusun
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
60% adherents
Primary language
Kadazan Dusun · Austronesian family
70% speak Kadazan Dusun
Gospel resources in Kadazan Dusun
- Bible available, published 2000
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Dusun)
Bibles
- Baibol Kadazan (Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu Version) · video, audio, text
- Today's Dusun Version Revised · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Tempasuk Dusun
- 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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