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The Gagauzes of Kazakhstan

The Gagauzes of Kazakhstan, numbering approximately 1,200 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Turkic-speaking people who are predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christians, a combination that makes them quite distinctive among the world's Turkic peoples, most of whom are traditionally Muslim. They mostly adhere to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Gagauz is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Turkic Peoples
Country: Kazakhstan
People Cluster: Turkic
Primary Language(s): Gagauz (gag)
Primary Religion(s): Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Population: 1,200
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG024300
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

80%
%
Eastern Orthodox Christia… Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Gagauz
Language Family: Turkic

20%
%
Gagauz Speakers

Media Resources in Gagauz:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Gagauz:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Institute for Bible Translation, Moscow✓✓✓
Institute for Bible Translation, Moscow✓✓✓

2 entries

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Or check out the Gagauz bible at Bible.com

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Gagauzes:
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Pray specifically for the Gagauzes of Kazakhstan

The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.
readProverbs 4:19

Pray that lost people will accept salvation through Christ, turn from destruction, and experience joy in the way of righteousness.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
readActs 18:8

Pray that rulers and leaders will access the gospel, respond in faith, and be baptized, uniting with Christ and His Church, and influence others to follow Him.

Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
readPsalm 25:6

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember the merciful nature and steadfast love of God as they walk with Him daily.

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.

Gagauz Across Countries (ROP3 - 103132) reported in the following countries:

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4 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▲Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
GagauzesPG024300GagauzesKazakhstan1,200Unengaged and UnreachedGagauzEastern Orthodox Christianity
GagauzesPG000736GagauzesBulgaria9,400Engaged yet UnreachedGagauzEastern Orthodox Christianity
GagauzesPG024594GagauzesTurkiye17,500Engaged yet UnreachedGagauzEastern Orthodox Christianity
GagauzesPG000862GagauzesMoldova146,000Engaged yet UnreachedGagauzEastern Orthodox Christianity

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