The Guajajara of Brazil

The Guajajara of Brazil, numbering approximately 24,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Tenetehara Tupi-Guarani people of Maranhão who inhabit the eastern margin of the Amazon and share common ancestry with the Tembé, from whom they diverged through nineteenth-century migration and territorial expansion. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Guajajára is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: Guarani
Primary Language(s): Guajajára (gub)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 24,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG016849
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Guajajára
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Guajajára Speakers

Media Resources in Guajajára:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

Bible Resources in Guajajára:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. 2007✓✓

1 entry

Or check out the Guajajára bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Guajajara are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Guajajara:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Guajajara of Brazil

For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
readPsalm 1:6

As many look for hope in worldly pleasures, pray they will hear and accept salvation through Christ, turn from destruction, and experience joy in the way of righteousness.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
readPsalm 22:27-28

Pray that entire families will turn to the Lord in repentance and faith, and that they will worship Him and declare His righteousness to the nations.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
readGalatians 3:28

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be united in Christ across all differences of ethnicity, social status, and gender.

And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
readLuke 10:2

Ask God to send out laborers into His harvest field, raising up believers from around the world to go and proclaim the kingdom of God with those who need to hear it.

Guajajara Across Countries (ROP3 - 103494) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

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