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The Dhawad of India

The Dhawad of India, numbering approximately 1,900 people, are Unengaged and Unreached.
They are described as a Muslim community of western Maharashtra whose name derives from dhawad, their traditional occupation of extracting metal alloy from earth, now largely abandoned for wage labor as masons and coolies.
They are an Indigenous people in the Bengali people cluster of the South Asian Peoples affinity bloc.
Marathi is their primary language and Sunni Islam is their primary religion.

Unengaged and Unreached

The Dhawad 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 Dhawad 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 Dhawad 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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The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
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Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
readColossians 2:6-7

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For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
read2 Corinthians 1:8-9

Pray that as people hear and believe the gospel, they will be faithful as they walk through trials and will have an opportunity to be a witness to others in this people group of the goodness of God.

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