The Lagou of China

The Lagou of China, numbering approximately 8,400 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are n Eastern Yi people of the Guizhou-Yunnan borderlands whose ancestors lived as dependents of the Nasu and who developed a distinct Lagou identity while remaining officially classified within the broader Yi nationality. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Wusa Nasu is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Tibetan Peoples
Country: China
People Cluster: Other Tibeto-Burmese
Primary Language(s): Wusa Nasu (yig)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 8,400
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG007237
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

64%
%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Wusa Nasu
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

100%
%
Nasu, Wusa Speakers

Media Resources in Wusa Nasu:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Wusa Nasu:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

Or check out the Wusa Nasu bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Lagou 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 Lagou:
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 Lagou of China

For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
readIsaiah 48:11

Pray that those who have been living for their own glory will turn to the One who is worthy of all praise and find their true identity in Him.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
readRomans 10:14

Pray that the gospel will advance among those who don’t know the good news of salvation in Jesus so that they might believe and trust in Jesus.

Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered.
readPsalm 105:5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice as they remember His wonders, miracles, and perfect judgements.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

Lagou Across Countries (ROP3 - 114147) reported in the following countries:

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