Vietnamese of New Zealand (PGID: PG018514)

The Vietnamese of New Zealand

The Vietnamese of New Zealand, numbering approximately 4,900 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnic Kinh community indigenous to Vietnam. They mostly adhere to Mahayana Buddhism and Vietnamese is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Southeast Asian Peoples
Country: New Zealand
People Cluster: Vietnamese
Primary Language(s): Vietnamese (vie)
Primary Religion(s): Mahayana Buddhism
Population: 4,900
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG018514
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Mahayana Buddhism
Religious Affiliation: Buddhism

60%

Mahayana Buddhism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Vietnamese
Language Family: Austroasiatic

100%

Vietnamese Speakers

Media Resources in Vietnamese:

Films:

Title	Link
JESUS	View Film
JESUS	View Film
Magdalena	View Film
Magdalena	View Film

4 films

Provided by the Jesus Film Project

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Bible Resources in Vietnamese:

Bible Name (Translation)	Video	Audio	Text
1924 Khoi-Cadman		✓
2002 Bible League International			✓
Ban Dich 2011			✓
Revised Vietnamese Version	✓
Vietnamese Old Version		✓	✓
Word of God for Everyone (Catholic)	✓	✓	✓

6 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Vietnamese bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese:

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 Vietnamese of New Zealand

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
John 3:19

Pray that God will have mercy on those who love the darkness they are walking in and turn from their sin to faith in Christ.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
2 Timothy 4:3-4

Pray that the lost will be open to the truth of the gospel and turn from false teachings and myths to the sound doctrine of Christ in faith.

He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.
Isaiah 25:8

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice in the hope of the Lord's coming, when He will swallow up death forever and wipe away their tears.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Psalm 139:14

Praise God for His creativity and power, and pray that He will raise up men and women from among them who are in awe of all He has done and want to go share the hope of Christ with others.

Kinh Across Countries (ROP3 - 105018) reported in the following countries:

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Engaged yet Unreached UUPG No Longer Unreached

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24 people groups

People Group ID	Name	Country	Population ▲	Strategic Progress Index	Language	Religion
PG016394	Vietnamese	Martinique	375	Unengaged and Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG024326	Vietnamese	Uzbekistan	450	Unengaged and Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG011093	Vietnamese	Vanuatu	500	Unengaged and Unreached	Vietnamese	Roman Catholicism
PG007420	Vietnamese	China	2,800	Unengaged and Unreached	Vietnamese	Atheism
PG018377	Vietnamese	New Caledonia	4,200	Unengaged and Unreached	Vietnamese	Roman Catholicism
PG018514	Vietnamese	New Zealand	4,900	No Longer Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG000445	Vietnamese	Netherlands	8,800	No Longer Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG050595	Vietnamese	Macao	18,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Vietnamese	Folk Buddhism
PG050598	Vietnamese	Hong Kong	46,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG000777	Vietnamese	Czech Republic	60,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG033510	Vietnamese	Germany	83,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG046599	Vietnamese	Malaysia	85,000	No Longer Unreached	Vietnamese	Confucianism
PG000694	Vietnamese	United Kingdom	100,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG010933	Vietnamese	Thailand	119,000	No Longer Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG020963	Vietnamese	Laos	139,000	No Longer Unreached	Vietnamese	Ethnoreligion
PG048428	Vietnamese	Russian Federation	150,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Ancestor Worship
PG048427	Vietnamese	Taiwan	217,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Ancestor Worship
PG043501	Vietnamese	Canada	258,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG008087	Vietnamese	Australia	336,000	No Longer Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG008197	Vietnamese	Cambodia	535,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG050668	Vietnamese	Japan	654,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Ethnoreligion
PG000207	Vietnamese	France	656,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG043675	Vietnamese	United States	1,605,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism
PG033474	Vietnamese	Vietnam	85,770,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Vietnamese	Mahayana Buddhism

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