People group profile · PG016454
The Akawaio of Venezuela
The Akawaio of Venezuela, numbering about 900 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Cariban people descended from the Karinya, historically dominant traders of Guyana's Mazaruni and Cuyuni river valleys, whose Venezuelan communities entered Spanish mission life before dispersing eastward after a mission's destruction in 1817.
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 Akawaio.
Fast facts
- Country
- Venezuela
- Population
- 900
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Akawaio (ake)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
Where they live
Gospel status
The Akawaio 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 Akawaio
- 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
Akawaio · Cariban family
16% speak Akawaio
Gospel resources in Akawaio
- Bible available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 2010 Bible Society of Suriname · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Akawaio
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
Akawaio in other countries
The same people (ROP3 100181) is reported in 2 other countries.
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