The Toto of India

The Toto of India, numbering approximately 1,700 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a small Scheduled Tribe of Totopara on the Indo-Bhutan frontier in West Bengal's Western Duars region, organized into thirteen clans. Agriculture, horticulture, and poultry farming remain their principal occupations. They mostly adhere to Folk Buddhism and Toto is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Tibetan Peoples
Country: India
People Cluster: Tibetan
Primary Language(s): Toto (txo)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Buddhism
Population: 1,700
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG049376
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Buddhism
Religious Affiliation: Buddhism

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%
Folk Buddhism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Toto
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

74%
%
Toto Speakers

Media Resources in Toto:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Toto:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Indian Evangelical Mission✓✓

1 entry

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Toto 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 Toto:
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 Toto of India

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
readRomans 3:23

Pray that those who live in fear, guilt and discontentment because of sin will see their need for change, hear, and receive the good news of freedom from sin through Christ.

Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia."
readRomans 16:5

Pray for houses to be meeting places for Christians and that God will advance the gospel and grow His Church through natural familial and community relationships.

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.
readIsaiah 49:13

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and suffer for their faith, they will sing for joy and be glad in their hearts because the Lord has compassion on them.

At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ...that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.
readColossians 4:3-4

Ask God to open doors for believers to share the gospel and help them communicate it clearly so that more people will understand the mystery of Christ and turn to follow Him.

Toto Across Countries (ROP3 - 117276) reported in the following countries:

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