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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Enlhet of Paraguay

The Enlhet of Paraguay, numbering approximately 7,200 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Paraguay. They mostly adhere to Folk Catholicism and Enlhet is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Paraguay
People Cluster: Guarani
Primary Language(s): Enlhet (enl)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Catholicism
Population: 7,200
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG049258
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

50%
%
Folk Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Enlhet
Language Family: Lengua-Mascoy

89%
%
Enlhet Speakers

Media Resources in Enlhet:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Enlhet:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1995 Bible Society of Paraguay✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Enlhet bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Enlhet 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 Enlhet:
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 Enlhet of Paraguay

For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
readPsalm 18:31

As people look to their own efforts for hope, pray they will have the opportunity to learn and believe in the Lord, who is the only Rock worthy of their faith.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
readIsaiah 40:8

Pray that everyone has access to God's Word and that those who hear the good news will turn from their sins and put their faith in Jesus the Messiah.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 6:11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will lay down all evil desires, dying to sin and living for Him alone.

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
readActs 17:29

Pray that God will send out laborers to tell people of the one true God and, as the good news is shared, bring about repentance and belief as they turn from idols and follow Jesus.

Enlhet Across Countries (ROP3 - 117063) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
EnlhetPG049258EnlhetParaguay7,200No Longer UnreachedEnlhetFolk Catholicism

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