The East Indians of Barbados

The East Indians of Barbados, numbering approximately 3,900 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Caribbean people of Indian ancestry whose forebears arrived as indentured laborers from South Asia. They speak the dominant regional languages and maintain cultural traditions influenced by Hindu, Muslim, and broader Indo-Caribbean heritage. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Bajan is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Barbados
People Cluster: Indo-Caribbean
Primary Language(s): Bajan (bjs)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 3,900
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG049229

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

53%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Bajan
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Bajan Speakers

Media Resources in Bajan:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Bajan:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

Or check out the Bajan bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The East Indians 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.

Next steps for the East Indians:
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

Pray specifically for the East Indians of Barbados

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
readRomans 1:22

Ask God to pour out His mercy and bring those who are walking in their own wisdom to faith in Jesus.

The LORD watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
readPsalm 146:9

Pray for God to watch over people, wherever they are, and cause them to meet believers who will share the gospel with them clearly and lovingly.

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
readColossians 2:6-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be rooted and built up in Him, abounding in thanksgiving for the grace and mercy He has shown them.

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
readRomans 10:15

Pray that God will call many believers who will obediently go and share the gospel with those who desperately need it.

East Indian Across Countries (ROP3 - 102818) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
All

12 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
East IndiansEast IndiansTrinidad and Tobago133,000Engaged yet UnreachedTrinidadian Creole EnglishRoman Catholicism
East IndiansEast IndiansJamaica25,500Engaged yet UnreachedHindiRoman Catholicism
East IndiansEast IndiansBelize12,000Unengaged and UnreachedBelize Kriol EnglishUnaffiliated
East IndiansEast IndiansSaint Lucia5,500Unengaged and UnreachedSaint Lucian Creole FrenchUnaffiliated
East IndiansEast IndiansGrenada4,700Unengaged and UnreachedHindiProtestantism
East IndiansEast IndiansChile3,900Unengaged and UnreachedHindiHinduism
East IndiansEast IndiansBarbados3,900Engaged yet UnreachedBajanSunni Islam
East IndiansEast IndiansArgentina2,700Unengaged and UnreachedHindiHinduism
East IndiansEast IndiansBrazil2,400Unengaged and UnreachedHindiHinduism
East IndiansEast IndiansSaint Vincent and the Grenadines1,500Unengaged and UnreachedVincentian Creole EnglishUnaffiliated
East IndiansEast IndiansGuatemala700Unengaged and UnreachedSpanishUnaffiliated
East IndiansEast IndiansVenezuela500Unengaged and UnreachedHindiHinduism

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