The Toto of India

The Toto of India, numbering approximately 1,700 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a small Scheduled Tribe of Totopara on the Indo-Bhutan frontier in West Bengal's Western Duars region, organized into thirteen clans. Agriculture, horticulture, and poultry farming remain their principal occupations. They mostly adhere to Folk Buddhism and Toto is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Tibetan Peoples
Country: India
People Cluster: Tibetan
Primary Language(s): Toto (txo)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Buddhism
Population: 1,700
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG049376
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Buddhism
Religious Affiliation: Buddhism

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%
Folk Buddhism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Toto
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

74%
%
Toto Speakers

Media Resources in Toto:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Toto:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Indian Evangelical Mission✓✓

1 entry

Or check out the Toto bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Toto 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 Toto:
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 Toto of India

For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.
readLuke 19:10

Pray that those who are lost will respond to the One who came to seek and save the lost, and experience the joy of being found.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
readRomans 5:10

Pray that God will remove obstacles to the gospel so that many will see the hope He offers through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, and be transformed from being enemies to being His friends.

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
readRomans 5:2

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice in the hope of glory and be in awe of God's mercy that gives them access to Him through faith.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
read2 Thessalonians 3:1-3

Pray that the Word of God will spread throughout this people group and be honored. Ask God to establish His people and guard them from the evil one, testifying to this whole people group of His great faithfulness.

Toto Across Countries (ROP3 - 117276) reported in the following countries:

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