People group profile · PG042069
The Kandha Gauda of India
The Kandha Gauda of India, numbering about 46,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Scheduled Tribe of Phulbani, Puri, and Koraput districts in Odisha speaking the Kui language. Their name combines kond, meaning hill, with gauda, meaning village headman. Traditionally cowherds, they are now mainly cultivators.
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 Kui (India).
Fast facts
- Country
- India
- Population
- 46,500
- Affinity group
- South Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- South Asian Tribal
- Primary language
- Kui (India) (uki)
- Primary religion
- Folk Hinduism
- 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
Where they live
Gospel status
The Kandha Gauda 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 Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Kandha Gauda
- 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
100% adherents
Primary language
Kui (India) · Atlantic-Congo family
100% speak Kui (India)
Gospel resources in Kui (India)
- Bible available, published 2006
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Kui)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Kandha Gauda
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- 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.
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