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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Garifuna of Honduras

The Garifuna of Honduras, numbering approximately 204,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Afro-Indigenous people of Central America's Caribbean coast descended from African, Arawak, and Kalinago ancestors. They speak Garifuna, an Arawakan language, and maintain a distinct maritime cultural heritage. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Garifuna is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Honduras
People Cluster: Central American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Garifuna (cab)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 204,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG024763
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

50%
%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Garifuna
Language Family: Arawakan

75%
%
Garifuna Speakers

Media Resources in Garifuna:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Garifuna:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2002 Bible Society of Honduras✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Garifuna bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Garifuna 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 Garifuna:
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 Garifuna of Honduras

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
readRomans 6:4

Pray that those who need to surrender their lives to Christ will confess their sins and trust in Him, being united with Him in His death and resurrection, walking in newness of life.

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.’ In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
readJob 1:20-22

Pray that those who mourn will worship God in the midst of their suffering and loss, recognizing He is the source of all good things and that He is worthy of their praise and trust.

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
readRomans 5:11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice in what God has done for them and will help others know how they can also be reconciled to God.

And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, but as it is written, "Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand."
readRomans 15:20-21

Pray that God will send believers to cross cultures and proclaim the gospel where Christ has not been named, so that the nations might glorify God for His mercy.

Garifuna Across Countries (ROP3 - 101510) reported in the following countries:

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6 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion ▼
GarifunaPG047649GarifunaUnited States71,500No Longer UnreachedGarifunaRoman Catholicism
GarifunaPG016416GarifunaSaint Vincent and the Grenadines2,400No Longer UnreachedGarifunaFolk Catholicism
GarifunaPG022293GarifunaGuadeloupe4,200No Longer UnreachedVirgin Islands Creole EnglishFolk Catholicism
GarifunaPG024711GarifunaGuatemala21,500No Longer UnreachedGarifunaFolk Catholicism
GarifunaPG024763GarifunaHonduras204,000No Longer UnreachedGarifunaEthnoreligion
GarifunaPG024796GarifunaNicaragua3,500No Longer UnreachedGarifunaEthnoreligion

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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