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The Mitna of India

The Mitna of India, numbering approximately 19,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached.
They are described as a fishing and salt-making community of Maharashtra and Daman and Diu. The Mitna are an endogamous subdivision of the Machhi, their name meaning salt-maker in Gujarati. Fishing and salt-panning remain their primary occupations.
They are an Indigenous people in the Gujarati people cluster of the South Asian Peoples affinity bloc.
Gujarati is their primary language and Hinduism is their primary religion.

Unengaged and Unreached

The Mitna are Unengaged and Unreached, 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.

Unreached yet Engaged

The Mitna are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

No longer Unreached

The Mitna 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.

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readLuke 10:8-9

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readPsalm 119:9

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

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