South Asian Unengaged Peoples

The Dayare are an unengaged, unreached people group who number about 1,800 and are located primarily in Tamil Nadu, India. Their name comes from the word “dayara,” which means “a circle” and refers to how they live in an area that has a wall around the periphery of it. They are adherents of the Sunni sect of Islam and followers of Mehdi Mauvood, who taught people to “renounce the world.” Please pray that God will be preparing people, even now, to go to the Dayare and share the truth of Christ with them. Ask that they will have dreams and visions of Jesus and seek answers to these dreams. Pray that one day, even though these people may still have boundaries around their communities, they will not be bound by those structures. Pray that, instead, they will obey the words of Christ when He said, “What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops” (Matthew 10:27 ESV).