People group profile · PG041938
The Sarera of India
The Sarera of India, numbering about 44,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Scheduled Caste of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, their name recalling the traditional occupation of scutching cotton. Wage labor in agriculture, roads, and quarries remains common, alongside making pestles and leaf plates.
They are an indigenous people in the Punjabi people cluster of the South Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Panjabi.
Fast facts
- Country
- India
- Population
- 44,500
- Affinity group
- South Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- Punjabi
- Primary language
- Panjabi (pan)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- Southern Asia, Asia
- Location
- distributed in Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Himachal Pradesh
Where they live
Gospel status
The Sarera 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 Sarera
- 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
Panjabi · Indo-European family
100% speak Panjabi
Gospel resources in Panjabi
- Bible available, published 2021
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Punjabi)
- Magdalena (Punjabi)
- The Savior (Punjabi)
Bibles
- 2000 Bible League International · text
- Indian Revised Version · audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Sarera
- 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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