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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Bhil Mina of India

The Bhil Mina of India, numbering approximately 132,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a community of India; a Scheduled Tribe of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh They are an Indigenous people, with Bhil Mina as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Bhil people cluster of the South Asian Peoples. They mostly adhere to Hinduism and Vaghri is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: South Asian Peoples
Country: India
People Cluster: Bhil
Primary Language(s): Vaghri (vgr)
Primary Religion(s): Hinduism
Population: 132,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG048977
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Hinduism
Religious Affiliation: Hinduism

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Hinduism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Vaghri
Language Family: Indo-European

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Vaghri Speakers

Media Resources in Vaghri:

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Bible Resources in Vaghri:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Bhil Mina 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 Bhil Mina:
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 Bhil Mina of India

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.
readJohn 11:25

Pray for the many who have never heard about or understood the importance of what Jesus did for them, asking God to make a way for them to hear that the perfect Son of Man suffered, died, and rose again so that they might be saved.

Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.
readIsaiah 55:6

Pray that the lost will seek the Lord while He may be found and call upon Him while He is near, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Sanctify them in the truth, your word is truth.
readJohn 17:17

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will experience freedom from sin as God sanctifies them in the truth of His Word.

There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.
readMark 7:15

Pray for Christians to take any opportunity to share the hope of Jesus with lost people here, praying they will be wise like Jesus as they share the truth about what can defile people and what can make them clean.

Bhil Mina Across Countries (ROP3 - 111653) reported in the following countries:

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PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Bhil MinaPG048977Bhil MinaIndia132,000No Longer UnreachedVaghriHinduism

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