The Guajajara of Brazil

The Guajajara of Brazil, numbering approximately 24,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Tenetehara Tupi-Guarani people of Maranhão who inhabit the eastern margin of the Amazon and share common ancestry with the Tembé, from whom they diverged through nineteenth-century migration and territorial expansion. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Guajajára is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: Guarani
Primary Language(s): Guajajára (gub)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 24,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG016849
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Guajajára
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Guajajára Speakers

Media Resources in Guajajára:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

Bible Resources in Guajajára:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. 2007✓✓

1 entry

Or check out the Guajajára bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Guajajara 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 Guajajara:
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 Guajajara of Brazil

For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.
readEphesians 5:8

Pray that those who are lost will turn from the darkness they are walking in and embrace the light, becoming children of light who bear fruit in every good work.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
readPsalm 119:105

Pray that they will receive the Word of God as a lamp to their feet and commit their ways to Him.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.
readRevelation 21:4

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and walk through challenges, they will find comfort in God's promise of a beautiful future when there is no pain or suffering for those who belong to Christ.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns”
readIsaiah 52:7

Pray that God will provide open doors for believers who cross cultures to share the good news of salvation with those who need it. Pray that He will give them joy as they see Him move.

Guajajara Across Countries (ROP3 - 103494) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

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