Dongnu in China

The Dongnu inhabit a geographically widespread area across 15 counties in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and as far west as Funing County in southeastern Yunnan Province. The Dongnu live in an ethnically complex region. For centuries they have interacted with people from other minority groups, such as the Yao, Miao and Zhuang. The religious belief system of the Dongnu contains elements of animism, Daoism and ancestor worship. Ancestors are worshiped down to the fourth generation. It is primarily the job of the oldest son to take care of the ancestral altar. We don't know of a Dongnu church or Christian believer.

Ministry Obstacles

Their ethnic, geographic and linguistic isolation has caused a barrier to the introduction of the gospel.

Scripture Focus

"God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!"  Psalm 67:7

Scripture Prayer

Pray for fear and worship to rise up from all peoples in the 2020s.

Prayer Focus

Pray for a rising literacy rate for this people group, as well as for a rising standard of living. Though the Dongnu are one of the largest people groups in China without a single known Christian in their midst, few outsiders have even heard of them. Pray God would lay this group on the hearts of those who will obey the call to take the gospel to them.