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The Adi Minyong of India

The Adi Minyong of India, numbering approximately 50,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Scheduled Tribe of the Adi cluster settled in the upper and lower Siang regions of Arunachal Pradesh, organized into exogamous clans and traditionally engaged in agriculture and hunting. They largely profess the indigenous Donyi-Polo religion. They mostly adhere to Animism and Adi is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Himalayan Peoples
Country: India
People Cluster: Adi
Primary Language(s): Adi (adi)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 50,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG041950
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Adi
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

100%
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Adi Speakers

Media Resources in Adi:

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Bible Resources in Adi:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Adi Minyong 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 Adi Minyong:
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 Adi Minyong of India

For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
readPsalm 18:31

As people look to their own efforts for hope, pray they will have the opportunity to learn and believe in the Lord, who is the only Rock worthy of their faith.

There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.
readPsalm 19:3

Pray that God will lead them to His Word, and where it is not available, ask that He will raise up those who will produce gospel media in their heart language.

Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.
readEphesians 6:18

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be alert and persistent in prayer for all believers, offering their requests with thanksgiving.

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

Adi, Minyong Across Countries (ROP3 - 111269) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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1 people group

Photo People Group ID Name Country Population ▲ Strategic Progress Index Language Religion
Adi Minyong PG041950 Adi Minyong India 50,500 No Longer Unreached Adi Animism

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