People group profile · PG016251
The Guayabero of Colombia
The Guayabero of Colombia, numbering about 3,200 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Indigenous Western Tucanoan people of the Caquetá and Putumayo river region whose communities were historically centered along the Orteguaza, Mecaya, and Caquetá river systems and whose identity endures despite severe population decline.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Guayabero.
Fast facts
- Country
- Colombia
- Population
- 3,200
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Guayabero (guo)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Guaviare and Meta departments: upper Guaviare river
Where they live
Gospel status
The Guayabero are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Guayabero
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- 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
Primary religion
Primary language
Guayabero · Guahiboan family
100% speak Guayabero
Gospel resources in Guayabero
- Bible available, published 2010
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 2018 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. · audio
- Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc. · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Guayabero
- 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.
- 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.
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