The Navaho of United States

The Navaho of United States, numbering approximately 336,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an indigenous community of the United States They are an Indigenous people, with Navajo as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the North American Indigenous people cluster of the North American Peoples. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Navajo is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: North American Peoples
Country: United States
People Cluster: North American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Navajo (nav)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 336,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG043558
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Pray for the Navaho of United States

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Navajo
Language Family: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit

83%
%
Navajo Speakers

Media Resources in Navajo:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

Bible Resources in Navajo:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1985 American Bible Society✓

1 entry

Or check out the Navajo bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Navaho 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 Navaho:
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 Navaho of United States

These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self- made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
readColossians 2:23

Pray for those without Christ, that they will see the emptiness of human traditions and turn to the truth and grace found in Jesus.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
read2 Timothy 4:3-4

Pray that the lost will be open to the truth of the gospel and turn from false teachings and myths to the sound doctrine of Christ in faith.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
readPhilippians 2:5-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will imitate His humility in all they do.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.
read1 Corinthians 9:20

Pray that believers from similar cultures will be compelled by Christ's love to reach people who don't know the gospel, and that those people will receive the good news with joy.

Navajo Across Countries (ROP3 - 107125) reported in the following countries:

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