People group profile · PG041487
The Yerukula of India
The Yerukula of India, numbering about 652,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Scheduled Tribe of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana who call themselves Kurru, their common name from women's traditional fortune-telling craft, historically nomadic and organized into occupational groups for basket-weaving, mat-weaving, and rope-making.
They are an indigenous people in the South Asian Tribal people cluster of the South Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Hinduism, and they primarily speak Yerukula.
Fast facts
- Country
- India
- Population
- 652,000
- Affinity group
- South Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- South Asian Tribal
- Primary language
- Yerukula (yeu)
- Primary religion
- Folk Hinduism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, Concentrated CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- Southern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Karnataka, Kerala, and Maharashtra states; Telangana: Karimagar and north Nizamabad districts; Tamil Nadu: Chengai Anna, Coimbatore, Nilgiri, Periyar, and Salem
Where they live
Gospel status
The Yerukula 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 but there has been initial or concentrated church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years Concentrated Church Planting
Next steps for the Yerukula
- 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
Folk Hinduism · Hinduism
96% adherents
Primary language
Yerukula · Dravidian family
100% speak Yerukula
Gospel resources in Yerukula
- Bible available, published 2021
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Yerukula)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Yerukula
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
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