People group profile · PG048883
The Amri Karbi of India
The Amri Karbi of India, numbering about 176,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a tribal community of Karbi speakers inhabiting Karbi-Anglong district and adjoining areas of Assam, with populations also in Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, organized into clans and practicing agriculture, weaving, and traditional beliefs alongside some.
They are an indigenous people in the South Asian Tribal people cluster of the South Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Hinduism, and they primarily speak Amri Karbi.
Fast facts
- Country
- India
- Population
- 176,000
- Affinity group
- South Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- South Asian Tribal
- Primary language
- Amri Karbi (ajz)
- Primary religion
- Hinduism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, Concentrated CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- Southern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Assam: Kamrup district, Basbistha, Chandubi, Jalukbari, Jorabat, Kahi Kusi, Khetri, Loharghat, Pandu, Panikhaith, Rani block, Sonapur, and south of Brahmaputra river; Meghalaya: Ri-Bhoi district, Nongpoh area, Barni Hat and Umling
Where they live
Gospel status
The Amri Karbi 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 Amri Karbi
- 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
70% adherents
Primary language
Amri Karbi · Sino-Tibetan family
70% speak Amri Karbi
Gospel resources in Amri Karbi
- Bible available, published 2014
- 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 Amri Karbi
- 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.
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