The Call to North India

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As I look back over the past six years since the AD2000 & Beyond Movement waslaunched, several key moments — “kairos” moments — stand out in my mind. Thefirst was at the inaugural meeting of our movement in July, 1990, when it wasrecorded in our minutes that our primary target of concern would be the unevange-lized/unreached belt between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north of the Equatorand from West Africa to East Asia — an area of the world we designated the “10/40Window.” The only possible way way to reach the people in the 10/40 Window wasthrough concerted, global, fervent, focused prayer; so we prayed. Two worldwideseasons of prayer were conducted: first for the countries in the 10/40 Window inOctober, 1993; then for what we called the 100 “Gateway Cities” in October, 1995.

The second “kairos” moment was in a meeting with all the national leaders atthe Global Conference on World Evangelization in Korea in 1995. After a full day ofhearing reports from many countries in the world about their initiatives and goalsleading to the year 2000, we were all broken with a passion for the individual peo-ples and nations represented by those in our gathering. We realized that thoughmuch had been accomplished and much momentum was building around theworld to accomplish our goal of “a church for every people and the gospel for everyperson by the year 2000,” we needed to be even more focused on what remained tobe done. So Joshua Project 2000 was launched in 1995 as a five-year effort to identi-fy and reached the approximately 1,700 peoples whom mission leaders agreed aremost in need of a church planting effort. We have been amazed at the tremendousenergy and resources that Joshua Project 2000 has unleashed around the globe.Unreached peoples are being identified, researched, profiled and adopted as targetsof focused, fervent prayer and outreach with an urgency that is unprecedented.

I believe a third “kairos” moment is upon us now, especially for the church inNorth India. As you will see in the following pages, this part of the world is ofenormous importance. The needs and the opportunities are staggering. And webelieve God is moving there as never before. We can see “the outer fringe of Hiswork” all around the area. The time is right. North India ispoised to receive an outpouring of His grace and His glory. Allthe signs are there. It is my prayer that we will heed them andbecome a part of what God desires to do in this needy area of theworld before the year 2000.

In Him,

Luis Bush

By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent. And theseare but the outer fringe of his works (Job 16:13-14)

importance of this region.

•It is the most socially deprived area of India. Recentworldwide surveys indicate that a country’s literacy rate— especially the female literacy rate — is the key indicatorof quality of life. The literacy rate has a direct connectionto both life expectancy and infant mortality. This isborne out in the North India-Hindi Belt. While 60% ofthe entire Indian population is considered functionally lit-erate, the figure here is half that: only 30%. (see map“Literacy” page 4) But the infant mortality rate is doublethat of the national average. This area is truly the mostsocially deprived in all of India. In fact, four of the statesin this North India Belt have been identified by the Indiangovernment itself as “sick states.” Interestingly, theacronym of their names (BI for Bihar, MA for MadyaPradesh, R for Rajasthan and U for Uttar Pradesh) is theHindi world “bimaru” which actually means “sick.”

•It is the religious hub of India. This area of India isknown as the heartland of Hinduism, a religion thatboasts some 33 million gods. It is the birthplace of bothBuddhism and Jainism. Some of the most revered Hindu

and Buddhist shrines andplaces of pilgrimage are inthis region. Muslims alsohave a strong presence,with some of their mostimportant learning andworship centers located inthe area.

•It has the smallestChristian presence in all ofIndia. The national aver-age for Christianity is offi-cially 2.7%. As per the1991 census, the Christianpopulation of North Indiais 0.5% of the total popu-lation. (see map “PercentChristian” page 5)

As you observe closely,you cannot help but notice

this heavy concentration of need in the North India region,no matter which 10/40 Window criteria was used — depthof poverty, percentage of illiteracy, total unreached popula-tion, presence of spiritual strongholds. If the 10/40Window defines the core of the unfinished task in worldevangelization (that area of the world where most of theneed is concentrated) and the Joshua Project 2000 list of

Why North India?Signs are Pointing to North India.

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North India is strategically important in completingthe unfinished task of world evangelization.

The church in India has a rich and very long history,some say dating back to the Apostle Thomas. In fact, India iswhere the era of modern missionary effort began nearly two-hundred years ago with the arrival of William Carey, calledby many the father of modern missions. But historically,most of the growth of the Indian church has been concen-trated in the southern and north-eastern parts of the coun-try. While the church there is alive and well, pastors andmissionaries both within and without India have longnoticed the special needs and strategic importance of thenorthern part of the country — an area often called “theNorth India-Hindi Belt.”

This area stretches across north andcentral India and covers ninestates: Bihar, Rajasthan,Madhya Pradesh, UttarPradesh, Delhi, JammuKashmir, Punjab, HimachelPradesh and Haryana. Why isthis area so important?

•It is a major populationcenter. This Ganges Riverbelt contains one of themost heavily populatedregions of the world. IfUttar Pradesh were acountry, it would bethe seventh most pop-ulous in the world; ifBihar were a country,it would be the thirteenth.Forty percent of the totalIndian population livesthere, some 400 million people. (see map “ChurchWorkers Needed)

•It is a political center. New Delhi is the capital and cen-ter of political power in India. Practically everything flowsfrom this area of the country.

But there are other, more pressing evidences of the

Church WorkersN E E D E D

400 – 15,000

15,000 – 30,000

30,000 – 60,000

60,000 – 140,000Soruce: All India Congress on ChurchDevelopment, August 1990 1981 Census of IndiaGolbal Mapping International, 1993

The Ganges River belt contains one of the mostheavily populated regions of the world. The needfor church workers is unprecedented.

SIGN #1:

their efforts. Good research helps to identify the ever-chang-ing picture of the unfinished task. It helps identify who isworking in the field and where. It helps eliminate duplica-tion of efforts and wastage of precious resources. Researchhelps us know where we’ve been and where we are so thatwe can know where we should go next and how best to getthere.

India has been one of the most difficult countries toresearch. The country is a like an intricate mosaic — manycomplex pieces that fit together into a whole.

Gathering accurate information about the people them-selves and the state of the missionary effort there has beencomplicated by the deeply entrenched caste system that sep-arates people into socially distinct and unmixable groupsand by the incredibly large number of languages and dialectsspoken within India, not to mention the hundreds of tribesand religious groups that make up her population.

Much progress has been made in the last few years to“spy out the land and its inhabitants” and to give an accu-rate and up-to-date picture of the challenges and the oppor-tunities. The India Missions Association, in partnership withGospel for Asia, has researched and published very informa-tive and accurate books on what has been done so far andthe work yet to be done to complete the task of evangeliza-tion within India. They have defined the work according tolanguage groups, PIN (ZIP) codes and unreached peoplegroups in the country. The “People of India Project,”launched in 1985 by The Anthropological Society of India(ASI) under the leadership of its director, Dr. K. N. Singh,is working toward the completion of one of the most far-reaching ethnographic studies this century. Five hundredscholars spent over 26,000 field days to compile informationfor these volumes. The information is up-to-date andinvaluable to those working to finish the task by the year2000. For instance, it was previously thought that therewere some 1500 different languages spoken in India’s nearly2800 communities. But the ASI research revealed there werereally only 325 different languages. What a difference thismakes to those missionaries, pastors and evangelists in thefield.

Perhaps never before has this kind of information on

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unreached peoples represents the core of the core (those par-ticular people groups primarily found within that area inmost need of church-planting efforts), then the North India-Hindi belt would be the core of the core of the core — that areaand those people groups where the most desperate needsconverge. Like a laser beam, the Spirit of God has beendrawing us into a tighter and tighter focus on the areas criti-cal to the completion of the task of world evangelization.Without supernatural intervention and significant mobiliza-tion in this particular part of the world, we will not reachour goal of a church for every people and the gospel forevery person by the year 2000. The North India-Hindi belt isabsolutely crucial to that plan.

Research information on this part of India is availableas never before.

Researching the needs and reporting on the status of thework in any given country is a relatively new aspect of mis-sionary effort. In the past, many indi-vidual Christians and Christian organi-zations tended to ignore suchinformation gathering andstudy as unimportant, tootime-consuming and notreally helpful. But just asJoshua sent out the spies tosurvey the land and reporton its condition before thechildren of Israel moved outin obedience to God’s com-mand, many more mission-aries and Christian workersare finding research infor-mation invaluable in

SIGN #2:

LiteracyB Y S T A T E

20 - 40%

40 - 60%

60 - 80%

80 - 91%Soruce: Manorama Year Book 19921981 Census of IndiaGolbal Mapping International, 1993

A country's literacy rate is the keyindicator of quality of life, particularlyas it relates to life expectancy andinfant mortality.

India been so carefully surveyed, prepared, well-publishedand distributed. In this, the North India-Hindi belt isunique. We do not believe it is accidental. God is allowingus to “spy out the land” that we might go in and claim bothit and its inhabitants for Him.

There is a growing sense of vision and cooperation inthe task.

Today there are some 40 million Christians in 200,000local churches in India. In the last few years, local churchesand parachurch organizations have joined in the vision ofreaching India by generating more than 200 plans for evan-gelization focusing on the year 2000. For example:

•The Evangelical Church of India has a denominational planto establish 1000 local churches by then. With almost900 churches already, they expect to reach their goal in1998 — two years ahead of schedule.

•The Friends Missionary Prayer Bandhas developed “HindiHeartland PenetrationStrategies” to mobilize1000 new missionariesand to research and evan-gelize 300 unreached peo-ple groups within the nextfew years.

• Gospel for Asia has achurch-planting move-ment among 100 of theJoshua Project 2000unreached peoples ofSouthern Asia.•India Reach hastaken on the goal ofreaching 500 millionpeople with thegospel through direct mailefforts followed up by per-sonal visits within six weeks to the individuals whorespond. They are believing God for over 65 million deci-sions for Christ by the year 2000.

•OM India (Operation Mobilization) has launched an ini-tiative called “Project Light” to present the gospel throughliterature to 100 million people in India by the year 2000.

•Gospel for Asia has a goal for training 100,000 missionaries

for outreach to India, 10,000 of them by December 31,2000.

• The Association of Pentecostals is working effectivelytowards a church for every one of the 75,000 pin codes bythe end of the year 2000.

• The Charismatic New Life Churches have a church-planti-ng movement for every one of the 512 districts be the endof the year 2000.

Historically, much of the mission work in this part ofIndia has been done by individual missionaries, ministriesand denominations. We rejoice in their faithful efforts andenthusiastically support all that they are doing. But God isdoing something very special in India at this time with HisChurch. As never before, networks are emerging throughoutall of North India involving not only historical mainlinechurch leaders, but new church pastors, missionaries fromboth international and indigenous missions and qualifiedprofessional people, many of whom are leaving their careersto devote themselves to reaching the unreached in NorthIndia.

Many of these peopleand organizations havecome together as the NorthIndia Harvest Network, aloosely-organized forumestablished for mutualencouragement and strengthin evangelism and churchplanting efforts. Totallymanaged by volunteers, ithas sponsored seminars in60 of the 200 districts ofNorth India to build net-works and mobilize workersfor the harvest they trulybelieve is coming. Their goalis reaching “every peoplegroup in every city in everylanguage in every geographicdistrict.” Their mission isexpressed in the phrase

“PLUG, PREM and be NICE,” a series of acronyms thatdescribe their focus and their methodology for reachingtheir goals.

PLUG refers to the different targets their networks aretrying to reach: every PEOPLE – in every LANGUAGE – inevery URBAN center – in every GEOGRAPHIC division (dis-

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SIGN #3:

Percent ChristianB Y S T A T E

Less than 2%

2 to 15%

16 to 60%

61 to 88%

Soruce: 1991 Census of IndiaGolbal Mapping International, 1993

The Christian population of NorthIndia is 0.5% far below the offocialnational average of 2.7%.

trict, block and PIN code).

At the heart of the strategy are 500 target groups orunits in North India based on this PLUG approach.

•200 PEOPLE groups (see “Unreached People” chart, page 10)•50 LANGUAGES (see “Major Languages” list, page 7)•50 URBAN areas and (see “North

India Cities” list, page 7)•200 GEOGRAPHICAL districts (see

“Districts” chart, page 11).

Much like a net, each targetgroup serves as a thread wovenfrom a different direction to ensurethat every person has a chance tohear, regardless of the languagethey speak, the cultural groupingthey are a part of, or the city orgeographical district in which theyreside. These target groups havebecome the focus of their prayerand mobilization efforts. Throughtheir seminars, the NIHN seeks toidentify, prepare and train localleaders who will coordinate theresources and personnel to reacheach of these target groups in theirarea.

PREM and be NICE describehow that work will be done:PRAYER must be made. –RESEARCH into the harvest fieldmust be performed and then uti-lized. – EQUIPPING and trainingthose who go out to labor mustoccur. – MOBILIZATION must be ongoing.

It is recognized and understood by all concerned that

this can only occur: by NETWORKING, especially in pio-neer situations; – by taking INITIATIVE when nothing ishappening or a gap is realized; – by being a CATALYST (anagent that provokes or speeds significant change or action);– by ENCOURAGING all the existing ministries and effortsthat advance the cause of Jesus Christ.

In so many ways, India is learn-ing to work together to reach itsown unreached peoples. The net-works of concerned individualsand churches are stretching acrossthe entire country. Perhaps morethan any other factor, these net-works reveal the growing unity ofthe Church, without which globalevangelization cannot occur.

Prayer for North India is beingmobilized with a new earnest-ness.

India has always been animportant focus of the prayer strat-egy of the AD2000 movement. Itwas one of the first countriesprayed for in Praying Through theWindow I in October, 1993. Andin October, 1995, Calcutta was oneof the 100 “Gateway Cities” fea-tured in Praying Through theWindow II.

Calcutta is an amazing testimo-ny to the power of prayer. An estimated 35 millionChristians focused their prayers on Calcutta that Octoberday, with believers from 13 countries actually praying on-site in the city. A month of systematic prayer by localChristian leaders followed. They divided the city into 25routes for prayer walks. Many of the city’s 160 churchesadopted one or more of those routes, claiming the territo-

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SIGN #4:

NICENICENETWORKING

INITIATIVE

CATALYST

ENCOURAGING

PREMPREMPRAYER

RESEARCH THE HARVEST

EQUIPPING & TRAINING THE WORKERS

MOBILIZATION MUST BE ONGOING

PLUGPLUGEVERY PEOPLE

IN EVERY LANGUAGE

IN EVERY URBAN CENTER

IN EVERY GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION

ry for the Lord Jesus Christ. The results of that concentratedtime of prayer are still visible today. That month of prayerenhanced the Mission Calcutta 2000 Network, whose aim isto establish a church in every one of the city’s 93 postal codezones by the end of the year 2000. Great progress has beenmade. Thirty zones that did nothave a church now have one.Today, only 30 other zones remainuntouched.

Calcutta is not the only city inIndia to experience the power ofprayer. Varanasi in the state ofUttar Pradesh is Hinduism’s holiestcity, with thousands of templescentering on the worship of Shiva,an idol whose symbol is a phallus.Many consider this city the veryseat of Satan. Hindus believe thatbathing in the Ganges River atVaranasi washes away all sins. Anumber of Christian workers tookup the burden of prayer for theircity and in prayer walks boldlydeclared before the idols, “You arenot a living god.” One year later, itwas discovered that church planti-ng works had opened up in sixtyvillages around Varanasi over thatpast year, with 300 baptisms.

India knows that prayer works.The North India Harvest Networkhas developed a prayer strategyfocused on their 500 PLUG targetunits — “every people in every city,in every language, in every district.”Their goal is to find 1,000 interces-sors within India who will eachadopt one or more of these units.They are also seeking an equalnumber of intercessors outsideIndia to partner with them, mak-ing a grand total of 1,000,000intercessors.

An intensive training programhas been implemented to teachpeople to practice intercession forthe target units. An experiencedprayer warrior from Africa, Dr.Zachariah Fomum, has played a key role in this training for

prayer. Already 10 prayer conferences have been held.Prayer walks have been started and a major recruitmentdrive has been initiated. Can God’s power be long in com-ing when there is such a focus and outpouring of united,effective fervent prayer? India is ready and waiting.

Spiritual breakthroughs areoccurring all around the area.

Many Christian leaders bothwithin and without India expectthat God will do something veryspecial in that part of the worldover the next few years. Thefounder of the Friends MissionaryPrayer Band in India, PatrickJoshua, believes that India is duefor a rich harvest because the pricehas been paid by the sacrificial ser-vice of missionaries and pastorsover the past years. VasantharajAlbert of the Church GrowthResearch Center in Madras, states:“I believe that India today is on themap for the global church.” AndPeter Wagner, coordinator for theAD2000 United Prayer MobilizationNetwork observes, “Of all thenations in the world, India has thehighest potential of fruitful invest-ment of evangelistic effort at thistime. It is the place to invest time,energy and resources.”

The hundreds of strategies lead-ing to the year 2000, the rise ofnational ministries in India, theincrease in church planting effortsand the focus on reaching everypeople group all lead us to believethat something wonderful isindeed looming on the horizon forIndia. “Flashes of light” seen allaround the North India-Hindi belt— in Nepal, Mongolia, Sikkim,West Bengal, Calcutta, the Punjab,Orissa — and on the very borderswithin the belt itself, particularly

among the tribal groups, are encouraging us to believe that7

Major LanguagesAwadhiBagheliBagriBangaruBareliBhatriBhilalaBhiliBhiloriBhojpuriBraj BhshaBundeliChattisgariDogri-KangriDomariEasternGaddi

GarhwaliGondiGondi CentralGujariHalbiHarautiHindiHindustaniKanaujiKashmiriKhariaKorkuKuluiKumauniLadhakiLamaniMagahi

MaithiliMandeallMarwariMelviMinaMirpur PunjabiNepaliNimadiPunjabiPurikSadaniSindhiUrduVarhadi-NangpuriWagdi

PATNA, BH 1099647JAMSHEDPUR, BH 829171DHANBAD, BH 815005BOKARO STEEL CITY, BH 398890CHANDIGARH, CH 575829DELHI, DL 8419084SHIMLA, HP 110360YAMUNANAGAR, HR 219754ROHTAK, HR 216096SONIPAT, HR 143922AMBALA, HR 139889GURGAON, HR 135884AMBALA, HR 119338INDORE, MP 1109056BHOPAL, MP 1062771GWALIOR, MP 717780DURG, MP 685474SAGAR, MP 257119BILASPUR, MP 229615SATNA, MP 160500KORBA, MP 124501LUDHIANA, PJ 1042740PATIALA, PJ 253706JAIPUR, RJ 1518244KOTA, RJ 537371

AJMER, RJ 402700UDAIPUR, RJ 308571KANPUR, UP 2029889LUCKNOW, UP 1669204AGRA, UP 948063BAREILLY, UP 617350GHAZIABAD, UP 511759GORAKHPUR, UP 505566ALIGARH, UP 480520MORADABAD, UP 443701SAHARANPUR, UP 374945JHANSI, UP 368154DEHRADUN, UP 368053MIRZAPUR-VINDHY, UP 169336RAE BARELI, UP 129904MODINAGAR, UP 123279VARANASI, UP 1030863ALLAHABAD, UP 844546HARDWAR/RISHIKESH, UP 187392BADRINATH/KEDARNATH 50000MATHURA, UP 235922AYODHYA 50000UJJAIN, MP 362633GAYA, BH 294427AMRITSAR, PJ 708835

CITY, STATE POPULATION CITY, STATE POPULATION

North India Cities

Data Source: Dr. Raju Abraham, Uttar Pradesh

SIGN #5:

Data Source: Dr. Raju Abraham, Uttar Pradesh

the Sun of Righteousness is indeed ready to rise uponthese unreached peoples. Consider the following numbersof congregations established in North India, the vastmajority within the last 25 years:

•The India Evangelical Team — 700 congregations

•The India Evangelical Mission — over 400 congregations.

•The Friends Missionary Prayer Band — over 400 congre-gations

•The Evangelical Church of India — over 400 congrega-tions

•BCM — over 312 congregations and more than 1500preaching centers

•The Rajasthan Bible Institute — morethan 600 churches and prayergroups

• Gospel for Asia — 750 churches

• Filadelphia Fellowship Churches —550 congregations

• Vishwa Vani — 80 churches

And there are “flashes of light”within the North India-Hindi beltitself. In Bihar, one of the “sick states,”two neighboring tribes — the highlandMaltos and the lowland Santhalis —have experienced 34,000 baptisms inthe last ten years, with believers nowmeeting in 375 churches and worship-ping groups. Missionaries from SouthIndia took to the gospel at great sacrifice to the Maltos,who responded in large numbers. When the Santhalisobserved the changes in the lives of the Maltos, they asked:

“Can the God you preach also be the God of the Santhalis?We see the real changes in your lives. We need our adul-tery and drunkenness to go. We need peace.” In response,an entire village of Maltos went to a village of Santhalisand stayed in the homes overnight, sharing the gospel.Over the last four to five years, more than 6000 Santhalishave been converted and baptized in 116 worshippinggroups and two churches.

In Madhya Pradesh, in the small town of Sarni, a pastorwho had struggled for five years with an 18-member con-gregation approached cancer surgeon-turned full-timeChristian worker Dr. Victor Choudhrie for counsel. Dr.Choudhrie gave the pastor a “Jesus Film” video and toldhim to ask the local cable operator to show it, giving thepastor’s address as a contact point for anyone who wanted

to know more about Christ. The dayafter the film was shown, people start-ed coming to the pastor to hear moreabout Christ. He showed the videothree more times in response torequests. In just six weeks, fifteenhome churches were established inthat small town. Now some 250-300people who have come to know theLord meet weekly.

This is a unique moment in India.The Spirit of God is moving, perhaps asnever before. The Church in India isstirring and reaching out. The ever-

changing political dynamic in India has opened a windowfor increased missionary efforts that may or may not last.For now, there is opportunity in India. Now is the time,Paul said, to awake out of sleep. We must do what we canwhen we can. Now is India’s time. We dare not let it pass.

HIMACHAL PRADESH 5,170,877 4,435 0.09HARYANA 16,463,648 15,699 0.10RAJASTHAN 44,005,990 47,989 0.11UTTAR PRADESH 139,112,287 199,575 0.14MADHYA PRADESH 66,181,170 426,598 0.64BIHAR 86,374,465 843,717 0.98PUNJAB 20,281,969 225,163 1.11CHANDIGARH 1,284,030 10,060 1.57DELHI 18,841,288 166,304 1.77

TOTAL NORTH INDIA 397,715,724 1,939,540 0.49REST OF INDIA 440,868,264 17,700,744TOTAL INDIA 838,583,988 19,640,284 2.34

Data Source: 1991 Census

STATE POPULATION NUMBEROF

CHRISTIANS

PERCENTAGEOF POP.

CHRISTIAN

Christians in North India

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CONCLUSION:

What Can You Do?You can become a partner in the growing focus

on North India. The opportunities are limitless.

Partner in prayer. Become one of the 1,000 inter-cessors who will partner with an Indian brotheror sister to pray for one of the 500 target groups.Form a prayer group for North India in yourneighborhood or your church. Establish tripletpraying for the peoples and cities of North India.You may even wish to participate in a prayerjourney to North India tohave on-site prayer.

Partner in church planting.Adopt one of the 500 targetsof North India and pray andgive until a church is estab-lished there (200 peoplegroups, 50 languages, 50urban centers and 200 dis-tricts). This is a tremendousopportunity for your churchto become directly involvedwith a people group or a city,visiting the area, researchingthe needs and giving of yourresources to establish a sister congregation there.

Partner in personnel. Establish a link by person-ally sending a resident or non-resident mission-ary to North India, supporting them throughyour resources and your prayers. Have them inyour home, write them regularly, meet theirneeds in every way you can.

Partner in research and sharing of information.There is still much to be discovered about thevarious people groups within the North India-Hindi belt. You can join a team to do on-siteresearch or use resources where you are to inves-tigate the distinctives of a particular peoplegroup or urban area. Use your computer and

modem capabilities to share information withothers about the unreached millions.

Partner in advocacy. Become a people groupadvocate for one of the 200 unreached peoples ofNorth India. Use your influence and whateverforums are available to you to share the needsand invite others to become partners as well.

Partner in sharing resources. Give generously tothe various projects and programs within NorthIndia that are targeting the unreached peoples.You can:

• provide support for pro-grams to mobilize, motivate andeducate God’s people, such asstatewide and district-wideseminars, consultations andconferences. Many who couldgreatly profit from these meet-ings cannot meet the trans-portation costs to attend them.

• provide for support of per-sonnel who coordinate the pro-grams

• provide for equipment, suchas projectors, movie films, gen-

erators for evangelism and church planting efforts

•provide transportation those in the work — bicy-cles, motorcycles, vans

•provide for special projects such as Bible schools,children’s homes, adult literacy programs, com-munity development, medical outreach, etc.

•provide funds for the development of income-generating projects that would enable many wholabor in the work to become self-supporting

For further information about how you canbecome personally involved in this tremendousfocus on North India, contact the AD2000 &Beyond Movement (see the information on the back).

Partner In:• Prayer• Church Planting• Personnel• Research• Advocacy• Resources

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NAME NUMBERRESIDING INNORTH INDIA

% OFTOTAL GROUP

IN NORTH INDIA

AD DHARMI 41,257,815 89%AGARIA 35,899,117 68%AHAR 34,427,192 78%AHERIA 31,244,032 85%AHIR 30,339,632 88%AMANT 29,036,912 100%ANJNA CHOUDHARI 21,820,599 40%AWAN 16,259,744 100%BAFINDA 14,505,384 5%BAGDI 11,558,250 100%BAGHBHAN/MALI/SAINI 11,222,282 45%BAIGA 10,301,803 72%BAIRAGI 8,327,937 73%BAIRWA 7,838,529 81%BALAI 7,732,595 73%BALMIKI/CHURHA/BHANGI/DOM/MAHAR/MATANG MANG 6,960,355 95%

BALTI 6,873,129 78%BANJARA 6,387,500 100%BAORI 6,314,725 95%BARELA 6,263,701 74%BARHAI 5,920,109 99%BARI 5,490,118 37%BASOR/DHARKAR/TURI 5,468,152 78%BAURI 5,319,833 99%BAZIGAR 5,140,966 100%BEDIA 5,129,810 99%BELDAR 5,037,954 59%BHAINA 4,195,513 96%BHAR 3,989,214 52%BHARBHUNJA 3,805,101 79%BHARIA BHUMIA 3,572,068 31%BHAT 3,545,556 86%BHATTRA 3,438,898 100%BHIL TRIBAL GROUPS 3,369,064 100%BHISTI 3,352,706 100%BHOGTA 3,208,789 98%BHOI/KEWAT 3,177,785 84%BHOYAR 3,027,732 98%

BHUINHAR 2,855,821 98%BHUIYA 2,765,602 94%BHUMIHAR BRAHMAN 2,755,126 100%BHUMIJ 2,749,379 62%BIAR 2,529,120 76%BIND 2,528,870 90%BINJHIA 1,500,000 60%BISHNOI 2,385,610 100%BORIA 2,275,527 99%BRAHMAN 1,903,456 97%BUDDHISTS 1,892,872 98%CHAIN 1,874,308 100%CHAMAR/SATNAMI/MOCHHI/ ARAKH/

BUNA 1,790,188 88%CHERO 1,564,693 100%CHHIMBA 1,547,130 61%CHHIPA 1,507,508 79%DAKOT 1,494,760 86%DANGI 1,344,670 67%DAROGA 1,287,920 75%DARZI 1,263,003 99%DESHWALI 1,258,879 100%DHAKAD 1,170,806 78%DHANGAR 1,143,388 100%DHANUK 1,128,476 100%DHIMAR 1,090,652 94%DHOBI 1,085,396 100%DHOLI 1,081,795 99%DHUNIYA/BAHNA/PINJARA 1,054,389 100%DOGRA 1,011,908 81%DOSADH 950,050 71%DUSAR 937,428 99%GADARIA 931,233 100%GADDI 915,084 60%GANDA 901,636 94%GANGAUTA 894,229 31%GARA 885,912 11%GAUDA 852,384 100%GHASI 841,026 92%GHATWAR 840,663 94%GHIRATH 813,582 98%GHOSI 754,794 18%GOLA 708,511 100%GOND 708,472 100%GONRHI 706,399 99%GORIYA 695,940 100%GOSAIN 645,144 100%GUJAR 644,437 100%GUJJAR 640,256 100%HALBA 636,247 66%HALWAI 630,996 100%HARI 595,501 100%HO 573,862 93%JAINS 558,706 100%JAT 555,312 99%JAUNSARI 548,573 37%

JHOJHA 547,485 30%JOGI 538,910 97%JULAHA 533,769 100%KACHHI/KOIRI/KOERI 522,456 66%KADIA 519,500 100%KAHAR 504,527 100%KAHAR/JHIWAR 490,386 100%KAIBARTTA 487,232 81%KALAL 479,197 100%KALWAR 469,083 100%KAMBOH 464,271 100%KANDU 458,888 100%KANET 442,812 22%KANJAR 435,019 93%KARWAL 407,685 92%KASHMIRI 378,749 99%KATIA 369,080 98%KAWAR 366,969 100%KAYASTHA 356,055 73%KHANGAR 354,853 49%KHARIA 351,144 100%KHARWAR 335,212 78%KHATI 334,688 100%KHATWA 314,514 100%KHETAURI 307,749 33%KIR 306,275 98%KIRAR 298,876 36%KOCH 292,371 100%KOL 284,450 99%KOLI 283,416 19%KORKU 282,352 90%KOSHTI 276,919 73%KUMHAR 274,307 86%KUNBI/KURMI 270,081 100%KUNJRA 265,248 21%LODA 263,437 100%LODHA 263,217 100%LOHAR 259,285 100%LOHARA 258,612 62%LUNIA 257,398 100%MACHHI 253,633 100%MAHISHYA 231,672 100%MAHLI 230,202 100%MAHRATTA 230,182 100%MAHTAM 229,896 100%MAHYAVANSHI 225,609 100%MAJJI 222,771 100%MAKHMI 216,406 100%MAL 214,280 100%MALLAH 213,565 100%MALTO 211,562 100%MANGRIK 210,442 100%MANIHAR 205,762 100%MAZHABI 205,204 100%MEGH 204,856 100%MEO 200,971 100%

MERAT 189,372 100%MINA 188,516 100%MIRASI 178,892 100%MURAO 176,604 46%MUSAHAR 175,694 85%MUSSALLI 154,671 10%NAGARCHI 153,196 87%NAI 151,879 40%NAIK 145,594 101%NAMASUDRA 145,202 77%NAT 143,652 38%PANIKA 143,515 96%PANKA 139,664 35%PASI 136,684 100%PATWA 133,844 8%QAZI 133,804 100%QUSSAB/CHIK/KHATIK 132,662 100%RABARI 131,420 93%RAJBANGSHI 129,582 100%RAJPUT 121,446 79%RAJWAR 121,090 100%RAMDASIA 119,459 100%RANGREZ 118,981 82%RATHIA 118,819 100%RAWAL 118,202 100%RAWAT 116,397 98%SAHARIYA 115,420 24%SAINTHWAR 111,264 100%SANSI 111,057 100%SAORA 110,759 95%SARGARA 110,500 71%SAUR 110,409 43%SHAIKH/PATHAN/SAYYID/MOGHAL/TURK/

ARAIN 109,227 100%SIKHS 106,909 100%SILPKAR 105,601 98%SINDHIS 104,926 12%SIRVI 104,173 98%SONAR 103,791 69%SONDHI 102,543 100%SUDHAN 102,522 100%SWAMI/CHARAN/BAGRI/FAKIR 102,522 100%TAGA 102,093 94%TAMBOLI/BARAI 101,571 100%TARKHAN 101,254 100%TELI 100,541 100%THARU 100,170 35%THATHERA 100,060 3%THORI 100,056 2%TIYAR 100,020 3%VADDAR 100,000 3%VAISHYA/BANIA/KHATRI/ARORA/MARWADI/

PATEL 95,000 1%VISWAKARMA 95,000 3%YASHKUN 94,000 9%

Unreached People Groups in North IndiaNAME NUMBER

RESIDING INNORTH INDIA

% OFTOTAL GROUP

IN NORTH INDIA

NAME NUMBERRESIDING INNORTH INDIA

% OFTOTAL GROUP

IN NORTH INDIA

NAME NUMBERRESIDING INNORTH INDIA

% OFTOTAL GROUP

IN NORTH INDIA

Data Source: Dr. Raju Abraham, Uttar Pradesh

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Districts in North India, by StateBIHARARARIA

AURANGABAD

BEGUSARAIBHAGALPURBHOJPUR

DARBHANGA

DEOGHAR

DHANBAD

GAYA

GIRIDIH

GODDA

GOPALGANJ

HAZARIBAG

JEHANABADKATIHARKHAGARIAKISHANGANJ

MADHEPURA

MADHUBANI

MUNGER

MUZAFFARPUR

NALANDA

NAWADA

PASHCHIM CHAMPARAN

PATNAPURBA CHAMPARAN

PURNIA

ROHTAS

SAHARSASAMASTIPUR

SARANSITAMARHI

SIWAN

VAISHALI

CHANDIGARHDELHIHARYANABHIWANI

JIND

MAHENDRAGARH

ROHTAKAMBALA

FARIDABADGURGAON

HISAR

KAITHALKARNALKURUKSHETRAPANIPAT

REWARI

SIRSASONIPAT

YAMUNANAGAR

HIMACHAL PRADESHBILASPURCHAMBA

HAMIRPUR

KANGRA

KINNAUR

KULLULAHUL & SPITIMANDI

SHIMLA

SIRMAUR

SOLAN

UNA

MADHYAPRADESHBALAGHATBASTARBETULBHIND

BILASPURCHHATARPUR

CHHINDWARA

DAMOH

DATIA

DEWAS

DHAR

DURG

EAST NIMAR

GUNA

GWALIOR

HOSHANGABAD

INDORE

JABALPURMANDLA

MANDSAUR

MORENA

NARSIMHAPUR

PANNA

RAIPURRAISENRAJGARHRAJNANDGAON

RATLAMREWA

SAGARSATNASEHORE

SEONI

SHAHDOL

SHAJAPURSHIVPURISIDHITIKAMGARH

UJJAIN

VIDISHA

WEST NIMAR

PUNJABBATHINDA

FARIDKOTHOSHIARPUR

JALANDHAR

KAPURTHALALUDHIANAPATIALARUPNAGARSANGRUR

AJMER

RAJASTHANALWAR

BANSWARA

BARMER

BHARATPURBHILWARA

BIKANER

BUNDI

CHITTAURGARH

CHURU

DHAULPUR

DUNGARPUR

GANGANAGAR

JAIPURJAISALMER

JALOR

JHALAWAR

JHUNJHUNUN

JODHPUR

KOTANAGAUR

PALISAWAI MADHOPUR

SIKARSIROHI

TONK

UDAIPUR

UTTAR PRADESHAGRAALIGARH

ALLAHABAD

ALMORA

AZAMGARH

BAHRAICHBALLIABANDA

BARABANKI

BAREILLYBASTIBIJNOR

BUDAUN

BULANDSHAHR

CHAMOLI

DEHRADUN

DEORIA

ETAHETAWAH

FAIZABADFARRUKHABADFATEHPURFIROZABAD

GARHWAL

GHAZIABAD

GHAZIPUR

GONDA

GORAKHPUR

HAMIRPUR

HARDOI

HARIDWAR

JALAUNJAUNPUR

JHANSI

KANPUR DEHAT

KANPUR NAGAR

KHERILALITPURLUCKNOW

MAHRAJGANJ

MAINPURI

MATHURA

MAU

MEERUT

MIRZAPUR

MORADABAD

MUZAFFARNAGAR

NAINITAL

PILIBHITPITHORAGARH

PRATAPGARHRAE BARELIRAMPUR

SAHARANPUR

SHAHJAHANPUR

SIDDHARTHNAGARSITAPURSONBHADRA

SULTANPUR

TEHRI GARHWAL

UNNAO

UTTARKASHI

VARANASI

Prayer Concerns for North India1. Pray for the national leaders — thePresident, the Prime Minister and all otherministers and officials. Pray for God's wis-dom to be given to them to rule the coun-try in justice and righteousness.

2. Pray for the Church in North India —for its spiritual revival and missionaryawakening. Pray for the local church leaders— bishops, pastors, evangelists, elders andother Christian workers.

3. Pray for the Indian missions, for all themissionaries and all other evangelists andChristian workers. Pray for the effectivenessof their ministries.

4. Pray for the unreached people of NorthIndia in the six Hindi-speaking states witha population of 360 million. Pray for theleadership and for the right strategy forevangelizing each people group.

5. Pray for the Muslim population of 140million, one of the world's largest and mostaccessible Muslim communities. Pray forthe agencies working among them.

6. Pray for the national networks such asthe India Missions Association, EvangelicalFellowship of India, CONS India, MissionIndia 2000 and the North India HarvestNetwork. Pray that there will be propercoordination among these networks.

7. Pray for the radio ministries reachinginto India — Trans-World Radio, GoodNews Broadcasting Society, Far EastBroadcasting Association, Gospel for Asiaand other agencies.

8. Pray for the relief, social service anddevelopment agencies — World VisionIndia, CASA, EFICOR, Compassion and oth-ers.

9. Pray for the Bible translation min-istries — Bible Society of India,International Bible Society, Indian Instituteof Cross Cultural Communication (IMA),India Bible Translators, Oriental BibleTranslators, New Life Computers, IndianEvangelical Mission, Friends MissionaryPrayer Band and Indian EvangelicalMission.

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