People group profile · PG046603
The Hmong Daw of Myanmar
The Hmong Daw of Myanmar, numbering about 10,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Hmong people of the Hmong-Mien family, part of the wider Hmong communities of mainland Southeast Asia whose White Hmong identity is distinguished by the Hmong Daw language and shared cultural traditions.
They are a diaspora 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
- Myanmar
- Population
- 10,000
- 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
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Frontier 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
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
- 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.
- 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.
Hmong Daw in other countries
The same people (ROP3 103844) is reported in 5 other countries.
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