People group profile · PG020946
The Tai Khang of Laos
The Tai Khang of Laos, numbering about 83,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Tai people of Laos's Houaphan, Xiangkhoang, and Borikhamxai provinces, descended from Tai migrants who moved south from Yunnan and Guangxi between the seventh and thirteenth centuries, traditionally animist but increasingly influenced by Buddhism.
They are an indigenous people in the Tai people cluster of the Southeast Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Kang.
Fast facts
- Country
- Laos
- Population
- 83,500
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Tai
- Primary language
- Kang (kyp)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- Unengaged and Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC
- No Evangelicals, Churches or Resources
- Lostness priority
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Houaphan and Xiengkhoang provinces
Where they live
Gospel status
The Tai Khang are Unengaged and Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, and there has been no reported church planting activity in the past two years. In GSEC terms, there are no evangelical Christians or churches among this people group and there is no access to evangelical print, audio, visual or human resources.
- Congregations exist No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Tai Khang
- Pray that God would send workers to this people group
- Begin sowing the gospel and seek out people of peace
- Plant the first churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
98% adherents
Primary language
Kang · Bookkeeping family
100% speak Kang
Gospel resources in Kang
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not 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 Tai Khang
- 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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