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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Meghwar Bhil of Pakistan

The Meghwar Bhil of Pakistan, numbering approximately 73,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Hindu, Dalit (scheduled‑caste) community in Pakistan, closely associated with the wider Bhil people of South Asia. They are an Indigenous people, in the Bhil people cluster of the South Asian Peoples affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Hinduism. They primarily speak Sindhi Bhil.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: South Asian Peoples
Country: Pakistan
People Cluster: Bhil
Primary Language(s): Sindhi Bhil (sbn)
Primary Religion(s): Hinduism
Population: 73,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG006381

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Hinduism
Religious Affiliation: Hinduism

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Hinduism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Sindhi Bhil
Language Family: Indo-European

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Sindhi Bhil Speakers

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Next steps for the Meghwar Bhil

The Meghwar Bhil 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.

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Next steps for the Meghwar Bhil

The Meghwar Bhil 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.

Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Next steps for the Meghwar Bhil

The Meghwar Bhil 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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Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

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But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
readMatthew 5:44-45

Pray for those who don't know Jesus to encounter believers who are kind and compassionate and that their imitation of Christ will serve as a testimony that attracts lost people to Jesus.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise).
readEphesians 6:1-2

Pray that God will bring young men and women to faith in Jesus and that the fruit of their faith will be a powerful testimony as they honor their parents.

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
readHebrews 10:35

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will hold unswervingly to their faith and to their confidence in Christ, which has a great reward.

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
readIsaiah 58:7

As believers cross cultures to share the good news of Christ, pray that God will sustain them and grow their faith as He gives them the compassion necessary to minister well to those in need.

Marwari Bhil (ROP3 - 106367) reported in the following countries:

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