People group profile · PG016269
The Paya-Pucuro Guna of Colombia
The Paya-Pucuro Guna of Colombia, numbering about 3,600 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Guna Indigenous subgroup of the Darién borderlands whose identity is tied to the Paya and Púcuro communities and to the broader Guna cultural traditions of Panama and Colombia.
They are an indigenous people in the Central American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Border Kuna.
Fast facts
- Country
- Colombia
- Population
- 3,600
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Central American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Border Kuna (kvn)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Pioneer Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Antioquia department: north coast region near Panama isthmus, east and west banks of Gulf of Uraba; Chocó department: Arquía
Where they live
Gospel status
The Paya-Pucuro Guna 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 No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Paya-Pucuro Guna
- 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
Border Kuna · Chibchan family
100% speak Border Kuna
Gospel resources in Border Kuna
- Bible available, published 2015
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. 2009 · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Paya-Pucuro Guna
- 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.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
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