The White Americans of Virgin Islands

The White Americans of Virgin Islands, numbering approximately 15,500 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 Folk Catholicism and English is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: North American Peoples
Country: Virgin Islands
People Cluster: Anglo-American
Primary Language(s): English (eng)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Catholicism
Population: 15,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG050296
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Pray for the White Americans of Virgin Islands

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: Folk Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

35%
%
Folk Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: English
Language Family: Indo-European

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 Virgin Islands

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God".
readRomans 3:10-11

Pray that God will have mercy on those living in broken relationship with Him, and that He will bring many to surrender and repentance at the throne of grace.

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us.
readActs 17:26-27

Pray that the lost will seek God and find Him, for He is not far from each one of us. Pray that they will have opportunities to access the gospel, learn God's purpose for their lives, and believe in Him.

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
readLamentations 3:25

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will trust in the goodness of the Lord as they wait on Him to answer their cries for help.

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
read1 John 1:5

Pray that God will raise up believers who can share the gospel with people who don't know the good news of Jesus, that God is light and in him, there is no darkness at all.

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

Strategic Progress Index
All

19 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▲CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
White AmericansWhite AmericansSingapore9,900No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansPanama188,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansGuam14,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansVirgin Islands15,500No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansUnited States195,100,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansCanada405,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishRoman Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansCosta Rica12,500No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansPapua New Guinea12,500No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansAustralia96,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansNew Zealand15,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansGreenland3,400No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansFiji4,600No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansMicronesia5,500No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansEcuador28,500No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansCuracao1,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansHaiti19,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansDominican Republic97,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishFolk Catholicism
White AmericansWhite AmericansMarshall Islands1,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism
White AmericansWhite AmericansIceland1,800No Longer UnreachedEnglishProtestantism

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