The Adi Gallong of India

The Adi Gallong of India, numbering approximately 71,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a clan-based tribal group of the Adi in Arunachal Pradesh, settled along the Siyom and Siang river regions, who live mainly by agriculture and follow the Donyi-Polo faith. They trace their descent to the ancestor Abo Tani They are an Indigenous people, with Adi as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Adi people cluster of the Himalayan Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion. They primarily speak Adi, Galo.

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Fast Facts*:

Affinity Group: Himalayan Peoples
Country: India
People Cluster: Adi
Primary Language(s): Adi, Galo (adl)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 71,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG041851
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Adi, Galo
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

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Adi, Galo Speakers

Media Resources in Adi, Galo:

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Bible Resources in Adi, Galo:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Adi Gallong 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.

Next steps for the Adi Gallong:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Adi Gallong of India

Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
readGenesis 22:8

Pray that God will open the ears of those who are lost to understand and believe that only shed blood takes away sin and that, like Abraham, they will believe that God Himself provides the lamb for the burnt offering, who is Jesus the final, perfect sacrifice.

"Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool."
readIsaiah 1:18

Pray that God will make a way for the gospel to reach many through means they can understand and access, that they will receive the good news with joy, and that they will experience complete forgiveness and cleansing from their sin that Jesus offers through His sacrifice.

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
readRomans 6:4

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, God will lead those who might hesitate in getting baptized to trust Him as they obey His command, even when obedience is hard.

"Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."
readJohn 7:38

Ask God to raise up believers and sustain them as they cross cultures to share hope with those who need it. Pray that many might come to know Christ and that streams of living water will flow from their hearts so they will never thirst again.

Adi, Gallong Across Countries (ROP3 - 111267) reported in the following countries:

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