The White Americans of New Zealand

The White Americans of New Zealand, numbering approximately 15,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are citizens of the United States who identify as white alone or in combination (including multiracial white Americans). They mostly adhere to Protestantism and English is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: North American Peoples
Country: New Zealand
People Cluster: Anglo-American
Primary Language(s): English (eng)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 15,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG018513
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Pray for the White Americans of New Zealand

Join others around the world in praying for the lost to be saved, the gospel to advance, the global Church to grow, and for laborers to be sent out and sustained in the harvest.

Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

30%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: English
Language Family:

100%
%
English Speakers

Media Resources in English:

Films:
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SPI: No longer Unreached

The White Americans 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 White Americans:
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 White Americans of New Zealand

Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper!
readPsalm 30:10

Pray that people in the depths of despair and suffering and living outside of relationship with Christ will cry out to the Lord and find help, peace, and joy in Him.

And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
readActs 6:7

Pray that the Word of God will be increasingly available to these people in ways they will resonate with so that all may have a chance to respond to the good news of Jesus Christ.

Jesus said, ‘Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
readMark 10:29-30

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will know that when they make sacrifices to follow Jesus, He is there with them and will bless them abundantly in this life and in the life to come.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.
read1 Corinthians 15:3-4

Pray that God will raise up believers to go to the lost and faithfully proclaim the good news of Jesus' death and resurrection so that all may have an opportunity to access and believe.

American, White Across Countries (ROP3 - 110448) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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19 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
White AmericansWhite AmericansUnited States195,050,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansCanada405,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishRoman Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansPanama188,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansDominican Republic97,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansAustralia96,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansEcuador28,500No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansHaiti19,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansVirgin Islands15,500No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansNew Zealand15,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansGuam14,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansCosta Rica12,500No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansPapua New Guinea12,500No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansSingapore9,900No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansMicronesia5,500No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansFiji4,600No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansGreenland3,400No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansIceland1,800No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansCuracao1,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansMarshall Islands1,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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