People group profile · PG008135
The Yanyula of Australia
The Yanyula of Australia, numbering about 90 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Aboriginal Australian saltwater people of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria whose traditional country includes the Sir Edward Pellew Islands and the Borroloola coast of the Northern Territory.
They are an indigenous people in the Aboriginal Australians people cluster of the Pacific Islander Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Yanyuwa.
Fast facts
- Country
- Australia
- Population
- 90
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Aboriginal Australians
- Primary language
- Yanyuwa (jao)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10%
- GSEC
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Marginally Reached People Group
- Region
- Australia and New Zealand, Oceania
- Location
- Northern Territory: Doomadgee; Queensland: Borroloola
Where they live
Gospel status
The Yanyula are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 5% evangelical.
- Congregations exist No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Yanyula
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
85% adherents
Primary language
Yanyuwa · Pama-Nyungan family
50% speak Yanyuwa
Gospel resources in Yanyuwa
- Bible available, published 1990
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Yanyula
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
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