South Asian Unengaged Peoples

The Senaithalaivar are an unengaged, unreached people group numbering about 174,000 who are distributed throughout the southernmost tip of India as well as in the territory of Pondicherry. They are Hindus who speak Tamil. Traditionally, they were growers, cultivators, and sellers of betel leaf, but now they also grow bananas, cotton, tomatoes, sugarcane, groundnut, and paddy (rice). Pray that just as Peter did with Tabitha when she died (Acts 9:40-41), one day, someone will go to the widows among the Senaithalaivar, who are currently viewed as insignificant, and tell them to get up, awaken from their dead lives of hopelessness, and turn to the One who offers living hope. Pray that these women will see the value they have as children of God and that their identity will be tied not to the word “widow,” but instead to the word “child.” Pray that a movement to Christ will begin with these women and be established for generations among the Senaithalaivar.