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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Paya-Pucuro Guna of Colombia

The Paya-Pucuro Guna of Colombia, numbering approximately 3,600 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a subgroup of the Guna people, an Indigenous community living along the Panama–Colombia border, specifically in the Darién region They are an Indigenous people, in the Central American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion. They primarily speak Kuna, Border.

Paya-Pucuro Guna in Colombia photo
Photo by By Brian Massey

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Colombia
People Cluster: Central American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Kuna, Border (kvn)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 3,600
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Active CP Activity
People Group ID: PG016269
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Kuna, Border
Language Family: Chibchan

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Kuna, Border Speakers

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Next steps for the Paya-Pucuro Guna

The Paya-Pucuro Guna 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 Paya-Pucuro Guna

The Paya-Pucuro Guna 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.

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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 Paya-Pucuro Guna

The Paya-Pucuro Guna 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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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

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But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.
readPsalm 130:4

Pray that God will bring those who have hard hearts to repentance and trust in Christ for the forgiveness of their sins.

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
readPsalm 57:10

Pray that God will work, even in the hearts of hard-to-reach people, and that they will rejoice in His steadfast love and faithfulness.

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
readHebrews 10:35

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will hold unswervingly to their faith and to their confidence in Christ, which has a great reward.

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
read2 Peter 3:9

Pray that those God sends to cross cultures will patiently endure hardships as they share the gospel, knowing that the Lord is not slow to fulfill His promise.

Guna, Paya-Pucuro (ROP3 - 102258) reported in the following countries:

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