Hui of Taiwan (PGID: PG017642)

The Hui of Taiwan

The Hui of Taiwan, numbering approximately 60,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Chinese Muslim people whose ancestry reflects the integration of Chinese, Persian, Arab, and Central Asian communities over many centuries. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Mandarin Chinese is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: East Asian Peoples
Country: Taiwan
People Cluster: Chinese-Hui
Primary Language(s): Mandarin Chinese (cmn)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 60,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG017642
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

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Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mandarin Chinese
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

100%

Chinese, Mandarin Speakers

Media Resources in Mandarin Chinese:

Films:

Title	Link
JESUS	View Film
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Magdalena	View Film
Magdalena	View Film
The Savior	View Film

5 films

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Bible Resources in Mandarin Chinese:

Bible Name (Translation)	Video	Audio	Text
Revised Chinese Union Bible Shen Edition	✓	✓
Union Version		✓	✓
Union Version		✓	✓
Tianjing (Huizuban Shengjing)	✓	✓	✓

4 entries

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Hui 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 Hui:

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 Hui of Taiwan

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9

Pray that God, who is faithful and just, will open the eyes of those who are lost and draw them to confess their sins and trust in Him to grant forgiveness.

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
Romans 9:16

Pray that the merciful God who is at work in people's hearts will advance His gospel among them.

“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
Lamentations 3:24

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and walk through trials, they will be satisfied with the Lord as their portion and will place all their hope in Him.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
Mark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

Hui Across Countries (ROP3 - 103896) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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Engaged yet Unreached UUPG No Longer Unreached

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7 people groups

People Group ID	Name	Country	Population	Strategic Progress Index	Language	Religion ▲
PG007206	Hui	China	11,510,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Mandarin Chinese	Sunni Islam
PG017642	Hui	Taiwan	60,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Mandarin Chinese	Sunni Islam
PG018444	Hui	Singapore	18,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Mandarin Chinese	Sunni Islam
PG020237	Hui	Malaysia	18,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Mandarin Chinese	Sunni Islam
PG025000	Hui	Myanmar	9,800	Unengaged and Unreached	Mandarin Chinese	Sunni Islam
PG043088	Hui	Thailand	91,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Mandarin Chinese	Sunni Islam
PG049412	Hui	United States	2,300	Engaged yet Unreached	Mandarin Chinese	Sunni Islam

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