People group profile · PG020900
The Hmong Daw of Laos
The Hmong Daw of Laos, numbering about 294,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Hmong subgroup, called Hmoob Dawb or White Hmong in their own Romanized script, whose ancestors fled south from repeated 19th-century wars with Han Chinese settlers in the Yellow River basin to resettle in the highlands of Laos.
They are an indigenous people in the Miao / Hmong people cluster of the Southeast Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Chinese Folk Religion, and they primarily speak Hmong Daw.
Fast facts
- Country
- Laos
- Population
- 294,000
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Miao / Hmong
- Primary language
- Hmong Daw (mww)
- Primary religion
- Chinese Folk Religion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Pioneer Unreached People Group
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
Where they live
Gospel status
The Hmong Daw 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 Hmong Daw
- 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
Chinese Folk Religion · Ethnoreligion
90% adherents
Primary language
Hmong Daw · Hmong-Mien family
100% speak Hmong Daw
Gospel resources in Hmong Daw
- Bible available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Hmong Daw)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Hmong Daw
- 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.
Hmong Daw in other countries
The same people (ROP3 103844) is reported in 5 other countries.
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