Partners
Prayer Partners:
35 Current
0 Needed
Total Opportunity:
$74,549 Funded
$0 Needed
Demographics
- Location:
- Philippines
- Speakers:
- 8,000
- Start Year:
- 2004
- End Year:
- 2011
Reports to Investors
Butbut Kalinga NT | Kalinga, Butbut
The Butbut Kalinga people live in traditional scattered settlements, clustering their homes on mountain ridges, on plateaus and along one of the major rivers in the area. They value their language and continue to resist social pressure to speak Ilocano, the regional language of wider communication. The Butbut are a fierce warring tribe. Even today, an ongoing tribal war with a neighboring group has seriously affected their subsistence economy. Traditional animism is still practiced widely, and the percentage of Christians remains low. Christians are looked down upon in Butbut society, and believers often mix together the religious practices of Christianity and animism.
News from the Field
- Jul15
Butbut Kalinga of the Philippines
Filipino translators Alfred and Racquel are now drafting the book of Romans into the Butbut language, spoken by a population of about 8,000 people. How exciting to think what it must be like for the Butbut Kalinga believers to soon read the powerful message of Romans—they are a grafted-in people, accepted by God. From a culture of death rituals, they’ll rejoice in God’s form of spiritual worship—offering their bodies as “living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God” (Romans 12:1). - Apr28
Butbut Kalinga of The Philippines
God is moving in the hearts of the Butbut people. Many still engage in tribal warfare, yet more and more are seeking peace and security found in Christ alone. The first church was planted two decades ago, and now several are drawing crowds, especially from among the young generation. Still, pastors must use Scriptures in either the regional language of Ilocano or the language of a larger neighboring group. And very few can understand the message fully.