People group profile · PG011178
The Tai Lu of Vietnam
The Tai Lu of Vietnam, numbering about 5,600 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic group of China, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
They are a diaspora people in the Tai people cluster of the Southeast Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Lü.
Fast facts
- Country
- Vietnam
- Population
- 5,600
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Tai
- Primary language
- Lü (khb)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- 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
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
Where they live
Gospel status
The Tai Lu 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 Tai Lu
- 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
Primary language
Lü · Tai-Kadai family
100% speak Lü
Gospel resources in Lü
- Bible available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Tai Lue)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Tai Lu
- 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.
Tai Lu in other countries
The same people (ROP3 114183) is reported in 5 other countries.
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