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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Ava-Canoeiro of Brazil

The Ava-Canoeiro of Brazil, numbering approximately 70 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Brazil and can also be known as Carijó, Canoe, Awana, Cara-preta, Abá, Canoeiros, Canoa, Avá. They are an Indigenous people, in the Guarani people cluster of the Latin-Caribbean Americans affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion - Animism. They primarily speak Avá-Canoeiro.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: Guarani
Primary Language(s): Avá-Canoeiro (avv)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion - Animism
Population: 70
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): No Evangelicals, Churches or Resources
People Group ID: PG016559
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Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion - Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion - Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Avá-Canoeiro
Language Family: Tupian

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Avá-Canoeiro Speakers

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Next steps for the Ava-Canoeiro

The Ava-Canoeiro 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.

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Next steps for the Ava-Canoeiro

The Ava-Canoeiro 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.

Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Next steps for the Ava-Canoeiro

The Ava-Canoeiro 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.

Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Ava-Canoeiro of Brazil

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life"
readJohn 4:13-14

Pray that those who don't know Jesus will drink of the living water that only Christ can provide and never thirst again.

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
read1 John 1:5

As mobile phones, radio, and satellite television, and other technologies become more available worldwide, pray for people who are developing digital gospel resources so that others can easily access the gospel.

Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
readPsalm 133:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be unified and love one another as God loves them.

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessing.
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Ask God to give believers a deep desire to share the gospel with those who don't know the truth about God's redemption plan, and to provide them with opportunities to do so cross-culturally.

Ava-Canoeiro (ROP3 - 100632) reported in the following countries:

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