The Mabaka Valley Kalinga of Philippines

The Mabaka Valley Kalinga of Philippines, numbering approximately 5,800 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Kalinga subgroup of southeastern Kalinga province in the Philippine Cordillera, part of a warrior and tattooing tradition governed through the bodong system of inter-village peace pacts. They mostly adhere to Animism and Mabaka Valley Kalinga is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Philippines
People Cluster: Filipino Tribal
Primary Language(s): Mabaka Valley Kalinga (kkg)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 5,800
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG007720
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

94%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mabaka Valley Kalinga
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Kalinga, Mabaka Valley Speakers

Media Resources in Mabaka Valley Kalinga:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Mabaka Valley Kalinga:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Mabaka Valley Kalinga 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 Mabaka Valley Kalinga:
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 Mabaka Valley Kalinga of Philippines

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
readExodus 2:23-24

As the lost among them labor, groan, and cry out under false religions and sin, pray God will have mercy on them and hear their cries, that He will be their Rescuer from the kingdom of darkness and bring them into the kingdom of light.

Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.
readPsalm 96:2

Pray that gospel resources will reach this generation so that they will receive the good news and sing to the LORD, bless His name, and tell of His salvation each day.

And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!"
readMark 7:9

Pray that as men, women, boys, and girls place their faith in Christ, they will let go of any traditions that do not honor Him.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.
read1 Corinthians 9:20

Pray that believers from similar cultures will be compelled by Christ's love to reach people who don't know the gospel, and that those people will receive the good news with joy.

Kalinga, Mabaka Valley Across Countries (ROP3 - 105962) reported in the following countries:

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