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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Haka Chin of Myanmar

The Haka Chin of Myanmar, numbering approximately 132,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a linguistic subgroup of the larger Chin ethnic community indigenous to the Chin state of western Myanmar and can also be known as Baungshe. They are an Indigenous people, in the Kuki Chin people cluster of the Tibetan / Himalayan Peoples affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Christianity - Protestantism. They primarily speak Chin, Hakha.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Asian Pacific Peoples
Country: Myanmar
People Cluster: Kuki Chin
Primary Language(s): Chin, Hakha (cnh)
Primary Religion(s): Christianity - Protestantism
Population: 132,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG009431

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Christianity - Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Christianity - Protestant… Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Chin, Hakha
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

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Chin, Hakha Speakers

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Next steps for the Haka Chin

The Haka Chin are Unengaged and Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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Next steps for the Haka Chin

The Haka Chin are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Next steps for the Haka Chin

The Haka Chin are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

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For one will scarcely die for a righteous personóthough perhaps for a good person one would dare even to dieóbut God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
readRomans 5:7-8

Pray for the many who don't yet understand the hope of the gospel, and pray that God will reveal to them that while they were in darkness, Christ died for them.

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
readJames 4:4

Pray that the lost will be convicted of their friendship with the world, which is hostility toward God, and that they will turn from their sin and embrace the grace and mercy of God through Christ Jesus.

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
readDeuteronomy 6:6-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will hide God's Word in their hearts, let it shape their conversations and daily lives, and pass on their faith to the next generation.

And Jesus said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men." And immediately they left their nets and followed him.
readMark 1:17-18

Pray that God will raise up believers from this place and/or other cultures nearby to proclaim the gospel to those who desperately need to encounter it.

Chin, Hakha reported in the following countries (ROP3):

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