People group profile · PG016480
The Yanomami-Ninam of Venezuela
The Yanomami-Ninam of Venezuela, numbering about 150 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are one of four subgroups of the Yanomami cultural family, living in communal circular shabono houses along rivers spanning Venezuela and Brazil, isolated from outside contact until Brazilian boundary teams and missionaries arrived in the 1940s.
They are an indigenous people in the Amazon people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Ninam.
Fast facts
- Country
- Venezuela
- Population
- 150
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Amazon
- Primary language
- Ninam (shb)
- 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 Yanomami-Ninam 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 Yanomami-Ninam
- 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
Ninam · Yanomamic family
100% speak Ninam
Gospel resources in Ninam
- Bible available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Yanomami-Ninam
- 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.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
Ninam in other countries
The same people (ROP3 107331) is reported in 1 other country.
| People group | Country | Population | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yanomami-Ninam | Brazil | 600 | No Longer Unreached |
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