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The Cook Islands Maori of New Zealand

The Cook Islands Maori of New Zealand, numbering approximately 75,000 people, are No Longer Unreached.
They are described as a Polynesian ethnic group indigenous to Rarotonga, the largest and most populous of the Cook Islands and can also be known as Atiu.
They are an Indigenous people, with Maori as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Polynesian people cluster of the Pacific Islanders.
Their primary religion is Christianity - Protestantism.
They primarily speak Cook Islands Maori.

Unengaged and Unreached

The Cook Islands Maori are Unengaged and Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Unreached yet Engaged

The Cook Islands Maori are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

No longer Unreached

The Cook Islands Maori 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.

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My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
readPsalm 73:26

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O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
readPsalm 8:1

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But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
readHebrews 10:39

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But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

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