People group profile · PG049678
The Kumarbhag Paharia of India
The Kumarbhag Paharia of India, numbering about 10,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of India.
They are an indigenous people in the Other South Asian people cluster of the South Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Hinduism, and they primarily speak Sauria Paharia.
Fast facts
- Country
- India
- Population
- 10,000
- Affinity group
- South Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- Other South Asian
- Primary language
- Sauria Paharia (mjt)
- Primary religion
- Hinduism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- Southern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Jharkhand: Godda district, Sundar Pahardi sub-district; Pakaur district except southernmost block; Odisha: Mayurbhanj; West Bengal: Bankura, Barddhaman, and Murshidabad districts
Where they live
Gospel status
The Kumarbhag Paharia 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 Kumarbhag Paharia
- 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
60% adherents
Primary language
Sauria Paharia · Dravidian family
100% speak Sauria Paharia
Gospel resources in Sauria Paharia
- Bible available, published 2018
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Sauria Paharia)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Kumarbhag Paharia
- 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.
- 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.
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